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  • Earth, Water, Fleece and Fabric

    An Ethnography and Archaeology of Andean Camelid Herding

    de Penny Dransart ...
    Through a richly detailed examination of the practices of spinning yarn from the fleece of llamas and alpacas, Earth, Water, Fleece and Fabric explores the relationship that herders of the present and of the past have maintained with their herd animals in the Andes. Dransart juxtaposes an ethnography of an Aymara herding community, based on more than ten years fieldwork in Isluga in the Chilean ... Leer más

    $82.99 USD

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  • Growing Up in a Culture of Respect

    Child Rearing in Highland Peru

    de Inge Bolin ...
    Far from the mainstream of society, the pastoral community of Chillihuani in the high Peruvian Andes rears children who are well-adjusted, creative, and curious. They exhibit superior social and cognitive skills and maintain an attitude of respect for all life as they progress smoothly from childhood to adulthood without a troubled adolescence. What makes such child-rearing success even more ... Leer más

    $21.89 USD

  • Ancient People of the Andes

    de Michael A. Malpass ...
    In Ancient People of the Andes**, Michael A. Malpass describes the prehistory of western South America from initial colonization to the Spanish Conquest**. All the major cultures of this region, from the Moche to the Inkas, receive thoughtful treatment, from their emergence to their demise or evolution. No South American culture that lived prior to the arrival of Europeans developed a writing ... Leer más

    $23.79 USD

  • The Caribbean before Columbus

    de William F. Keegan, Corinne L. Hofman ...
    The islands of the Caribbean are remarkably diverse, environmentally and culturally. They range from low limestone islands barely above sea level to volcanic islands with mountainous peaks; from large islands to small cays; from islands with tropical rainforests to those with desert habitats. Today's inhabitants have equally diverse culture histories. The islands are home to a mosaic of indigenous ... Leer más

    $49.49 USD

  • Yutopian

    Archaeology, Ambiguity, and the Production of Knowledge in Northwest Argentina

    de Joan M. Gero ...
    Series series The William and Bettye Nowlin Series in Art, History, and Culture of the Western Hemisphere
    Around 400 BCE, inhabitants of the Southern Andes took up a sedentary lifestyle that included the practice of agriculture. Settlements were generally solitary or clustered structures with walled agricultural fields and animal corrals, and the first small villages appeared in some regions. Surprisingly, people were also producing and circulating exotic goods: polychrome ceramics, copper and gold ... Leer más

    $26.59 USD

  • Archaeology of Ancient Mexico and Central America

    An Encyclopedia

    Edición de Susan Toby Evans, David Webster ...
    This is the first comprehensive, one-volume encyclopedia in English devoted to pre-Columbian archaeology of the Mesoamerican culture area. In more than 500 articles by the major experts in the field, this work brings the most recent scholarship to an examination of regional environments and their cultural evolution. Entries range from the familiar ... Leer más

    $94.99 USD

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

    de Elizabeth P. Benson ...
    Series series The William and Bettye Nowlin Series in Art, History, and Culture of the Western Hemisphere
    The Moche, or Mochica, created an extraordinary civilization on the north coast of Peru for most of the first millennium AD. Although they had no written language with which to record their history and beliefs, the Moche built enormous ceremonial edifices and embellished them with mural paintings depicting supernatural figures and rituals. Highly skilled Moche artisans crafted remarkable ceramic ... Leer más

    $53.99 USD

  • The Development of the Inca State

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • Amazonia in the Anthropocene

    People, Soils, Plants, Forests

    de Nicholas C. Kawa ...
    Widespread human alteration of the planet has led many scholars to claim that we have entered a new epoch in geological time: the Anthropocene, an age dominated by humanity. This ethnography is the first to directly engage the Anthropocene, tackling its problems and paradoxes from the vantage point of the world’s largest tropical rainforest.Drawing from extensive ethnographic research, Nicholas ... Leer más

    $23.79 USD

  • Zapotec Science

    Farming and Food in the Northern Sierra of Oaxaca

    de Roberto J. González ...
    2003 — Julian Steward Award – Anthropology & Environment Section, American Anthropological Association2002 — A CHOICE Outstanding Academic BookHow Zapotec agricultural and dietary theories and practices constitute a valid local science.Zapotec farmers in the northern sierra of Oaxaca, Mexico, are highly successful in providing their families with abundant, nutritious food in an ecologically ... Leer más

    $29.69 USD

  • Visible Empire

    Botanical Expeditions and Visual Culture in the Hispanic Enlightenment

    de Daniela Bleichmar ...
    Between 1777 and 1816, botanical expeditions crisscrossed the vast Spanish empire in an ambitious project to survey the flora of much of the Americas, the Caribbean, and the Philippines. While these voyages produced written texts and compiled collections of specimens, they dedicated an overwhelming proportion of their resources and energy to the creation of visual materials. European and American ... Leer más

    $53.29 USD

  • Sacred Leaves of Candomblé

    African Magic, Medicine, and Religion in Brazil

    de Robert A. Voeks ...
    Winner, Hubert Herring Book Award, Pacific Coast Council on Latin American StudiesCandomblé, an African religious and healing tradition that spread to Brazil during the slave trade, relies heavily on the use of plants in its spiritual and medicinal practices. When its African adherents were forcibly transplanted to the New World, they faced the challenge not only of maintaining their culture and ... Leer más

    $23.79 USD