 | Woven Stories: Andean Textiles and Rituals
By: University Of New Mexico Press Price: $ 45.00 $ 31.40 Reviews: 1 Average Rating: 5.0
The Quechua people of southern Peru are both agriculturalists and herders who maintain large herds of alpacas and llamas. But they are also weavers, and it is through weaving that their cultural traditions are passed down over the generations. Owing to the region’s isolation, the textile symbols, forms of clothing, and technical processes remain strongly linked to the people’s environment and their ancestors.Heckman’s photographs convey the warmth and vitality of the Quechua people and illustrate how the land is intricately woven into... |
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 | An Inca Account of the Conquest of Peru
By: University Press Of Colorado Price: $ 21.95 $ 15.00
Available 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 secretary. Titu Cusi tells of his fathers maltreatment at the hands of the Spaniards; his fathers ensuing military campaigns, withdrawal and murder; and his own succession as ruler. This vivid narrative illuminates the Incan view of the Spanish... |
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 | Peasant and Nation: The Making of Postcolonial Mexico and Peru (A Centennial Book)
By: University Of California Press Price: $ 32.50 $ 32.49 Reviews: 1 Average Rating: 5.0
Peasant and Nation offers a major new statement on the making of national politics. Comparing the popular political cultures and discourses of postcolonial Mexico and Peru, Florencia Mallon provides a groundbreaking analysis of their effect on the evolution of these nation states. As political history from a variety of subaltern perspectives, the book takes seriously the history of peasant thought and action and the complexity of community politics. It reveals the hierarchy and the heroism, the solidarity and the surveillance, the... |
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 | Exploration Fawcett
By: Phoenix Press Price: $ 25.74 $ 21.25 Reviews: 2 Average Rating: 5.0
The mystic and legendary British explorer Colonel Percy Harrison Fawcett disappeared in the unknown and unexplored territory of Brazils Mato Grosso in 1925. For 10 years, he had wandered the forests and death-filled rivers in search of a "lost" cities; convinced he knew the location of one, he headed off for the last time--never to be heard from again. The thrilling story of what occurred during that time has now been compiled by his son from manuscripts, letters, and logbooks. What happened to him after remains a mystery. "...should be... |
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| | Lords of Sipan: A True Story of Pre-Inca Tombs, Archaeology, and Crime
By: William Morrow & Co Price: $ 25.00 $ 19.59 Reviews: 3 Average Rating: 5.0
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 | Empire of the Inca (Great Empires of the Past)
By: Facts On File Price: $ 35.00 $ 29.75
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| | Perus Indian Peoples and the Challenge of Spanish Conquest: Huamanga To 1640
By: University Of Wisconsin Press Price: $ 19.95 $ 3.95 Reviews: 1 Average Rating: 4.0
This second edition of Peru’s Indian Peoples and the Challenge of Spanish Conquest includes Stern’s 1992 reflections on the ten years of historical interpretation that have passed since the book’s original publication—setting his analysis of Huamanga in a larger perspective. |
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 | Smoldering Ashes: Cuzco and the Creation of Republican Peru, 1780-1840 (Latin America Otherwise)
By: Duke University Press Price: $ 51.09 $ 24.95 Reviews: 1 Average Rating: 5.0
In Smoldering Ashes Charles F. Walker interprets the end of Spanish domination in Peru and that country’s shaky transition to an autonomous republican state. Placing the indigenous population at the center of his analysis, Walker shows how the Indian peasants played a crucial and previously unacknowledged role in the battle against colonialism and in the political clashes of the early republican period. With its focus on Cuzco, the former capital of the Inca Empire, Smoldering Ashes highlights the promises and frustrations... |
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 | Pyramids of Tucume: The Quest for Perus Forgotten City
By: Thames & Hudson Price: $ 51.09 $ 39.09 Reviews: 2 Average Rating: 5.0
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| | Agrarian Reform in Theory and Practice: A Study of the Lake Titicaca Region of Bolivia
By: Ashgate Publishing Price: $153.92 $120.00
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