ABSTRACT
This comprehensive reference offers an authoritative overview of Andean lifeways. It provides valuable historical context, and demonstrates the relevance of learning about the Andes in light of contemporary events and debates. The volume covers the ecology and pre-Columbian history of the region, and addresses key themes such as cosmology, aesthetics, gender and household relations, modes of economic production, exchange, and consumption, postcolonial legacies, identities, political organization and movements, and transnational interconnections. With over 40 essays by expert contributors that highlight the breadth and depth of Andean worlds, this is an essential resource for students and scholars alike.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|45 pages
Geographies, landscapes, and environments
part II|51 pages
Engaging with ancestral legacies
chapter 6|16 pages
Life and death in the Central Andes
part III|45 pages
Andean cosmologies
part IV|43 pages
Conquest, invasion, and resistance
part V|46 pages
Sustenance
chapter 13|14 pages
Making and unmaking the Andean food pyramid
part VI|61 pages
Social, political, and religious organization and resilience
part VII|59 pages
Postcolonial legacies in the Andes
chapter 20|12 pages
Ordinary states
part VIII|65 pages
Identities
part IX|67 pages
Aesthetics, communication, and performance
chapter 29|16 pages
Andean musical expressions
part X|47 pages
Writing, education, and state power
chapter 32|17 pages
Three axes of variability in Quechua
part XI|64 pages
Landscapes of contemporary Andean worlds
part XII|65 pages
Collisions and kaleidoscopes