| | The mysteries of the Andes
By: Avon Price: $ 2.25
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| | The Mammals, Reptiles & Amphibians of Tambopata - a Field Checklist
By: John H Forrest No Longer Available
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 | The Cord Keepers: Khipus and Cultural Life in a Peruvian Village (Latin America Otherwise)
By: Duke University Press Price: $ 27.95 $ 27.66
None of the world’s “lost writings” have proven more perplexing than the mysterious script in which the Inka Empire kept its records. Ancient Andean peoples encoded knowledge in knotted cords of cotton or wool called khipus. In The Cord Keepers, the distinguished anthropologist Frank Salomon breaks new ground with a close ethnography of one Andean village where villagers, surprisingly, have conserved a set of these enigmatic cords to the present day. The “quipocamayos,” as the villagers call them,... |
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 | The Criminals of Lima and Their Worlds: The Prison Experience, 1850-1935
By: Duke University Press Price: $ 23.95 $ 23.94 Reviews: 1 Average Rating: 5.0
The Criminals of Lima and Their Worlds is the first major historical study of the creation and development of the prison system in Peru. Carlos Aguirre examines the evolution of prisons for male criminals in Lima from the conception—in the early 1850s—of the initial plans to build penitentiaries through the early-twentieth-century prison reforms undertaken as part of President Augusto Leguia’s attempts to modernize and expand the Peruvian state. Aguirre reconstructs the social, cultural, and doctrinal influences that... |
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 | Children of the Father King: Youth, Authority, and Legal Minority in Colonial Lima
By: The University Of North Carolina Press Price: $ 59.04 $ 24.95
In a pioneering study of childhood in colonial Spanish America, Bianca Premo examines the lives of youths in the homes, schools, and institutions of the capital city of Lima, Peru. Situating these young lives within the framework of law and intellectual history from 1650 to 1820, Premo brings to light the colonial politics of childhood and challenges readers to view patriarchy as a system of power based on age, caste, and social class as much as gender. Although Spanish laws endowed elite men with an authority over children that mirrored and... |
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 | Expeditions into the Valley of the Amazons, 1539, 1540, 1639
By: Adamant Media Corporation Price: $ 64.24 $ 15.99
This Elibron Classics edition is a facsimile reprint of a 1859 edition by The Hakluyt Society, London. |
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 | Nasca: Eighth Wonder of the World ?
By: British Museum Press Price: $ 64.24 $ 44.03
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 | The Madness of Things Peruvian: Democracy Under Seige
By: Transaction Publishers Price: $ 39.95 $ 38.73
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 | Between the Sacred and the Worldly: The Institutional and Cultural Practice of Recogimiento in Colonial Lima
By: Stanford University Press Price: $108.64 $ 65.00
This groundbreaking work argues that the seminal concept of recogimiento functioned as a metaphor for the colonial relationship between Spain and Lima. Ubiquitous and flexible, recogimiento had three related meanings—two cultural and one institutional—that developed over a 200-year period in Renaissance Spain and the viceregal capital, Lima. Female and male religious conceptualized recogimiento as a mystical praxis that aspired toward “union” with God, and it was also articulated as a... |
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 | Fujimoris Peru: Deception in the Public Sphere (Pitt Latin Amercian Studies)
By: University Of Pittsburgh Press Price: $ 46.98 $ 25.95 Reviews: 1 Average Rating: 4.0
Alberto Fujimori ascended to the presidency of Peru in 1990, boldly promising to remake the country. Ten years later, he hastily sent his resignation from exile in Japan, leaving behind a trail of lies, deceit, and corruption. While piecing together the shards of Fujimori’s presidency, prosecutors uncovered a vast criminal conspiracy fueled by political ambition and personal greed. The Fujimori regime managed to maintain a facade of democracy while systematically eviscerating democratic institutions and the rule of... |
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