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  • Ancient Andean Political Economy

    by Charles Stanish ...
    For more than two millennia prior to the Spanish conquest, the southern region of the central Andes was home to dozens of societies, ranging from modest chiefdoms to imperial states. Attempts to understand the political and economic dynamics of this complex region have included at least two major theories in Andean anthropology. In this pathfinding study, Charles Stanish shows that they are not ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • The Evolution of Human Co-operation

    Ritual and Social Complexity in Stateless Societies

    by Charles Stanish ...
    How do people living in small groups without money, markets, police and rigid social classes develop norms of economic and social cooperation that are sustainable over time? This book addresses this fundamental question and explains the origin, structure and spread of stateless societies. Using insights from game theory, ethnography and archaeology, Stanish shows how ritual - broadly defined - is ... Read more

    $135.99 CAD

  • The Moral Psychology of Trust

    by Marc A. Cohen, Hugh Desmond, Trystan S. Goetze, Edward Hinchman, J. Keeping, Andrew Kirton, Miriam Schleifer McCormick, Carolyn McLeod, Charles Stanish, Natalie Stoljar, Em Walsh, Andrea Westlund, Tiger Ziyu Zheng, Hale Demir-Doguoglu, Michal Klincewicz, Nenad Mišcevic, Brian L. Keeley, Dr Natasha McKeever ...
    Series series Moral Psychology of the Emotions
    Is it good to be trusting, or should we be wary of trusting others? Trust seems to be the basis of large-scale social cooperation and even of democracy itself, but in recent years many commentators and researchers have lamented the dawn of a post-trust era. Edited by David Collins, Iris Vidmar Jovanovic, and Mark Alfano, The Moral Psychology of Trust examines trust from a variety of perspectives ... Read more

    $136.99 CAD

  • Ritual and Pilgrimage in the Ancient Andes

    The Islands of the Sun and the Moon

    by Brian S. Bauer, Charles Stanish ...
    The Islands of the Sun and the Moon in Bolivia's Lake Titicaca were two of the most sacred locations in the Inca empire. A pan-Andean belief held that they marked the origin place of the Sun and the Moon, and pilgrims from across the Inca realm made ritual journeys to the sacred shrines there. In this book, Brian Bauer and Charles Stanish explore the extent to which this use of the islands as a ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

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    Nationalism, Modernity, and its Discontents

    by Ronald Loewe ...
    Series series Teaching Culture: UTP Ethnographies for the Classroom
    The Maya of the Yucatán have long been drawn into the Mexican state's attempt to create modern Mexican citizens (mestizos). At the same time, they have contended with globalization pressures, first with hemp production and more recently with increased tourism and the fast-growing influence of American-based evangelical Protestantism. Despite these pressures to turn Maya into mestizo, the citizens ... Read more

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  • The Oxford Handbook of the Aztecs

    Edited by Deborah L. Nichols, Enrique Rodríguez-Alegría ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of the Aztecs, the first of its kind, provides a current overview of recent research on the Aztec empire, the best documented prehispanic society in the Americas. Chapters span from the establishment of Aztec city-states to the encounter with the Spanish empire and the Colonial period that shaped the modern world. Articles in the Handbook take up new research trends and ... Read more

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    by Tamar Herzog ...
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    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Development of the Inca State

    by Brian S. Bauer ...
    The Inca empire was the largest state in the Americas at the time of the Spanish invasion in 1532. From its political center in the Cuzco Valley, it controlled much of the area included in the modern nations of Ecuador, Peru, Chile, and Bolivia. But how the Inca state became a major pan-Andean power is less certain. In this innovative work, Brian S. Bauer challenges traditional views of Inca state ... Read more

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    Engineering an Empire

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    This compelling collection of essays explores the Qhapaq nan (or Great Inca Road), an extensive network of trails reaching modern-day Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, and Argentina. These roads and the accompanying agricultural terraces and structures that have survived for more than six centuries are a testament to the advanced engineering and construction skills of the Inca people. The ... Read more

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  • Our Sacred Maíz Is Our Mother

    Indigeneity and Belonging in the Americas

    by Roberto Cintli Rodríguez ...
    “If you want to know who you are and where you come from, follow the maíz.” That was the advice given to author Roberto Cintli Rodriguez when he was investigating the origins and migrations of Mexican peoples in the Four Corners region of the United States.Follow it he did, and his book Our Sacred Maíz Is Our Mother changes the way we look at Mexican Americans. Not so much peoples created as a ... Read more

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  • The Worlds of the Moche on the North Coast of Peru

    by Elizabeth P. Benson ...
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  • The Relación de Michoacán (1539-1541) and the Politics of Representation in Colonial Mexico

    by Angélica Jimena Afanador-Pujol ...
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    Through close readings of the painted images in a major sixteenth-century illustrated manuscript, this book demonstrates the critical role that images played in ethnic identity formation and politics in colonial Mexico.The Relación de Michoacán (1539–1541) is one of the earliest surviving illustrated manuscripts from colonial Mexico. Commissioned by the Spanish viceroy Antonio de Mendoza, the ... Read more

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