For about a century and half, between the collapse of the highland state of Tiwanaku about 1300 and the unification of the area under the Incas about 1450, the Colla people living on the plains west of Lake Titicaca lived within walled settlements called pukaras in fear of viole…
Analyzing the nuances of identity formation in rural Andean culture, Andrew Canessa draws on two decades of ethnographic research in a remote indigenous community in Bolivia's highlands.
"El presente volumen recoge 14 ensayos que dan cuenta de la experiencia idiomática por la que atravesaron los incas a lo largo de su historia, pasando primeramente por el puquina, lengua de procedencia altiplánica, luego por el aimara, y más tarde por el quechua, idiomas estos d…
A seminal philosophic work that endeavors to identify and recover indigenous styles of thinking--by an Argentine philosopher still almost unknown in the United States.