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Turn Right at Machu Picchu
The Text Publishing Company 2012; US$ 23.99Turn Right at Machu Picchu is a fascinating and funny account of a journey through some of the world's most majestic, historic and remote landscapes guided only by a hard-as-nails Australian survivalist and one nagging question: what was the purpose of Machu Picchu? more...
Intercultural Education and Literacy
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1999; US$ 158.00Indigenous peoples around the world are calling for control over their education in order to reaffirm their identities and defend their rights. In Latin America the indigenous peoples, national governments and international organisations have identified intercultural education as a means of contributing to this process. The book investigates education... more...
Montane Foragers
University of Iowa Press 1998; US$ 45.00The rich and diversified archaeological record recovered at Asana--which spans from 10,000 to 3,500 years ago--includes the earliest houses as well as public and ceremonial buildings in the central cordillera. Built, used, and abandoned over many millennia, the Asana structures completely transform our understanding of the antiquity and development... more...
The Senator and the Sharecropper
The University of North Carolina Press 2011; US$ 24.95In this fascinating study of race, politics, and economics in Mississippi, Chris Myers Asch tells the story of two extraordinary personalities--Fannie Lou Hamer and James O. Eastland--who represented deeply opposed sides of the civil rights movement. Both were from Sunflower County: Eastland was a wealthy white planter and one of the most powerful... more...
Los incas
De Vecchi Ediciones 1753; US$ 4.99Los incas ?fundadores de uno de los imperios más grandes de todos los tiempos, Tahuantinsuyu, que ocupaba un territorio de más de 4.000 km de longitud sobre la costa de Sudamérica y agrupaba a aproximadamente doce millones de habitantes? reinaron durante cientos de años antes de que su organización sucumbiera a principios del siglo xvi. La civilización... more...
Los incas
De Vecchi Ediciones 1753; Not AvailableLos incas ?fundadores de uno de los imperios más grandes de todos los tiempos, Tahuantinsuyu, que ocupaba un territorio de más de 4.000 km de longitud sobre la costa de Sudamérica y agrupaba a aproximadamente doce millones de habitantes? reinaron durante cientos de años antes de que su organización sucumbiera a principios del siglo xvi. La civilización... more...
An Inca Account of the Conquest of Peru
University Press of Colorado 2011; US$ 17.95Available in English for the first time, An Inca Account of the Conquest of Peru is a firsthand account of the Spanish invasion, narrated in 1570 by Diego de Castro Titu Cusi Yupanqui - the penultimate ruler of the Inca dynasty - to a Spanish missionary and transcribed by a mestizo assistant. The resulting hybrid document offers an Inca perspective... more...
Inka Human Sacrifice and Mountain Worship
University of New Mexico Press 2013; US$ 65.00In this study, Besom explores the ritual practices of human sacrifice and the worship of mountains, attested in both archaeological investigations and ethnohistorical sources, as tools in the establishment and preservation of political power within the Inka empire. more...
Lost City of the Incas
Orion 2010; US$ 25.36New reissue of one of the greatest examples of exploration literature. 2011 marks the centenary of the discovery of Machu Picchu, which was one of the most important stories of the heroic age of archaeology. In 1911 Hiram Bingham, a pre-historian with a love of exotic destinations, set out to Peru in search of the legendary city of Vilcabamba, capital... more...
Lost City of the Incas
Orion 2010; Not AvailableNew reissue of one of the greatest examples of exploration literature. 2011 marks the centenary of the discovery of Machu Picchu, which was one of the most important stories of the heroic age of archaeology. In 1911 Hiram Bingham, a pre-historian with a love of exotic destinations, set out to Peru in search of the legendary city of Vilcabamba, capital... more...









