Publisher description. The present book offers a paleographic transcription of the 16th century manuscript of Juan de Santa Cruz Pachacuti Yamqui Salcamayhua's, Relación de antigüedades deste Reyno del Pirú, MS 3169 in the Biblioteca Nacional, Madrid, Spain. It discusses questio…
Publisher description. The present book offers a paleographic transcription of the 16th century manuscript of Juan de Santa Cruz Pachacuti Yamqui Salcamayhua's, Relación de antigüedades deste Reyno del Pirú, MS 3169 in the Biblioteca Nacional, Madrid, Spain. It discusses questio…
"In this work, Peter Gose demonstrates the ways in which Andeans converted conquests into relations of kinship and obligation. They worshipped Christianized and racially 'white' spirits after the Spaniards invaded, though the conquering Spaniards prevented actual kinship bonds w…
Voseo, the informal use of "vos" as a second person singular pronoun, is characterized by its morphological variety, its expressive potential, and its sociolinguistic variation. This book analyzes aspects of the colonial and modern evolution of voseo in a variety of Spanish spok…
The archaeology of Andean pastoralism
"In this book leading experts uncover and discuss archaeological topics and themes surrounding the long-term trajectory of camelid (llama and alpaca) pastoralism in the Andean highlands of South America. The chapters open up these studies to a wider world by exploring the themes…
The Archaeology of Andean Pastoralism
"In this book leading experts uncover and discuss archaeological topics and themes surrounding the long-term trajectory of camelid (llama and alpaca) pastoralism in the Andean highlands of South America. The chapters open up these studies to a wider world by exploring the themes…
"Landscapes of Inequity examines a range of environmental justice issues in the Andes and western Amazon basin from the perspectives of indigenous peoples and economic development in a global economy"--
The traditional costumes worn by people in the Andes identify them as natives of the region and serve as markers of ethnicity, social class, gender, age, and so on. Because costume expresses so much, scholars study it to learn how the indigenous people of the Andes have identifi…