 | Yuraq Janka: Guide to the Peruvian Andes - Cordilleras Blanca & Rosko
By: American Alpine Club Price: $ 12.95 $ 9.61 Reviews: 1 Average Rating: 1.0
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 | Warriors of the Clouds: A Lost Civilization in the Upper Amazon of Peru
By: University Of New Mexico Press Price: $ 32.95 $ 24.05 Reviews: 4 Average Rating: 5.0
Historians and archaeologists, suggests Keith Muscutt, have done an excellent job of recording the achievements of great pre-Columbian civilizations such as that of the Inca, which at its height covered an area the size of its Roman counterpart. They have done less well in understanding the histories of the empires that came before, the local strongholds and fiefdoms swallowed up by the mighty civilizations that the Europeans encountered. Muscutt takes us into the heart of one such ancient civilization, the Chachapoya, nestled in the high Andes... |
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 | An Amazonian Myth and Its History (Oxford Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology)
By: Oxford University Press, Usa Price: $ 60.00 $ 15.95
Uniting the ethnographic data collected by the fieldwork methods invented by Malinowski with Levi-Strausss analyses of the relations between myth and time, this book analyzes a century of social transformation of the indigenous Piro people of Peruvian Amazonia. It is an important contributionto anthropological debates on the nature of history and social change, as well as on neglected areas such as myth, visual art, and the methodological issues involved in fieldwork and archival data. |
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 | A Land of Ghosts: The Braided Lives of People and the Forest in Far Western Amazonia
By: Rutgers Price: $ 18.95 $ 11.76 Reviews: 9 Average Rating: 4.0
For thirty years David G. Campbell has explored the Amazon, an enchanting terrain of forest and river that is home to the greatest diversity of plants and animals to have ever existed, anywhere at any time, during the four-billion-year history of life on Earth. With great artistic flair, Campbell describes a journey up the Rio Moa, a remote tributary of the Amazon River, 2,800 miles from its mouth. Here he joins three old friends: Arito, a caiman hunter turned paleontologist; Tarzan, a street urchin brought up in a bordello; and ... |
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 | Native Designs from Ancient Mexico & Peru
By: Hvd Publishing Price: $ 14.99 $ 8.94
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| | No Bells to Toll: Destruction and Creation in the Andes
By: Athena Price: $ 69.78 $ 14.95 Reviews: 7 Average Rating: 5.0
"A masterly combination of ethnographic reporting with personal empathy and rare poetic insight." -- Eric Wolf "The most thorough picture of all levels of society in modern Peru that I have ever read." -- John Hemming, Director, Royal Geographic Society |
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 | The Shining Path: A History of the Millenarian War in Peru (Latin America in Translation/En Traduccion, Em Traducao)
By: The University Of North Carolina Press Price: $ 40.35 $ 29.95 Reviews: 2 Average Rating: 4.5
First published in Peru in 1990, The Shining Path was immediately hailed as one of the finest works on the insurgency that plagued that nation for over fifteen years. A richly detailed and absorbing account, it covers the dramatic years between the guerrillas opening attack in 1980 and President Fernando Belaundes reluctant decision to send in the military to contain the growing rebellion in late 1982. Covering the strategy, actions, successes, and setbacks of both the government and the rebels, the book shows how the tightly organized... |
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 | Pampa Grande and the Mochica Culture
By: University Of Texas Press Price: $ 60.00 $ 24.99
Pampa Grande, the largest and most powerful city of the Mochica (Moche) culture on the north coast of Peru, was built, inhabited, and abandoned during the period A.D. 550-700. It is extremely important archaeologically as one of the few pre-Hispanic cities in South America for which there are enough reliable data to reconstruct a model of pre-Hispanic urbanism. This book presents a "biography" of Pampa Grande that offers a reconstruction not only of the site itself but also of the sociocultural and economic environment in which it was built... |
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 | Vanguard Revolutionaries in Latin America: Peru, Colombia, Mexico
By: Lynne Rienner Publishers Price: $ 22.50 $ 19.00 Reviews: 3 Average Rating: 5.0
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 | Indigenous Mestizos: The Politics of Race and Culture in Cuzco, Peru, 1919-1991 (Latin America Otherwise)
By: Duke University Press Price: $ 25.95 $ 21.82
In the early twentieth century, Peruvian intellectuals, unlike their European counterparts, rejected biological categories of race as a basis for discrimination. But this did not eliminate social hierarchies; instead, it redefined racial categories as cultural differences, such as differences in education or manners. In Indigenous Mestizos Marisol de la Cadena traces the history of the notion of race from this turn-of-the-century definition to a hegemony of racism in Peru.De la Cadena’s ethnographically and historically rich... |
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