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Andes
Counterpoint 2011; US$ 24.95For centuries, the Andes have caught the imagination of travelers, inspiring fear and wonder. The groundbreaking scientist Alexander von Humboldt claimed that everything here is grander and more majestic than in the Swiss Alps, the Pyrenees, the Carpathians, the Apennines, and all other mountains I have known.” Rivaled in height only by... more...
Time and Memory in Indigenous Amazonia
UPF 2007; US$ 44.95These groundbreaking essays by internationally renowned anthropologists advance a simple argument--that native Amazonian societies are highly dynamic. Change and transformation define the indigenous history of the Amazon from before European conquest to the present. more...
The Motorcycle Diaries
Ocean Press 2003; US$ 14.95New York Times bestseller and the book of the popular movie about Che Guevara's youthful travels through Latin America. more...
Catechizing Culture
Columbia University Press 2004; US$ 32.99Nearly five centuries after the first wave of Catholic missionaries arrived in the New World to spread their Christian message, contemporary religious workers in the Bolivian highlands have begun to encourage Aymara Indians to return to traditional ritual practices. All but eradicated after hundreds of years of missionization, the "old ways" are... more...
Allies at Odds
University of New Mexico Press 2010; US$ 29.95Explores the vital, often conflictive role indigenous agents played in the creation of Andean Christian society. more...
A Life in Shadow
Stanford University Press 2010; US$ 67.50French naturalist and medical doctor Aimé Bonpland (1773–1858) was one of the most important scientific explorers of South America in the early nineteenth century. From 1799 to 1804, he worked alongside Alexander von Humboldt as the latter carried out his celebrated research in northern South America, but he later returned to conduct his... more...
HEADS OF STATE
Left Coast Press 2010; US$ 36.95The human head has had important political, ritual and symbolic meanings throughout Andean history. Scholars have spoken of captured and trophy heads, curated crania, symbolic flying heads, head imagery on pots and on stone, head-shaped vessels, and linguistic references to the head. In this synthesizing work, cultural anthropologist Denise Arnold... more...
El Libertador
Oxford University Press, USA 2003; US$ 15.99General Simon Bolivar (1783-1830), called El Liberator, and sometimes the "George Washington" of Latin America, was the leading hero of the Latin American independence movement. His victories over Spain won independence for Bolivia, Panama, Columbia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela. Bolivar became Columbia's first president in 1819. In 1822,... more...
Tituba, Reluctant Witch of Salem
NYU Press 1995; US$ 79.00In this important book, Elaine Breslaw claims to have rediscovered Tituba, the elusive, mysterious, and often mythologized Indian woman accused of witchcraft in Salem in 1692 and immortalized in Arthur Miller's The Crucible . Reconstructing the life of the slave woman at the center of the notorious Salem witch trials, the book follows Tituba from... more...









