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  • The History of the Incas

    by Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa ...
    Translated by Brian S. Bauer ...
    Series series Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture
    A new translation and introduction to an invaluable source of information on the last and largest empire to develop in the indigenous Americas.The History of the Incas may be the best description of Inca life and mythology to survive Spanish colonization of Peru. Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa, a well-educated sea captain and cosmographer of the viceroyalty, wrote the document in Cuzco, the capital of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • General History of Peru

    Book 1

    by Martín de Murúa ...
    Translated by Brian S. Bauer, Eliana Gamarra C., Andrea Gonzales Lombardi ...
    Mercedarian friar Martín de Murúa’s General History of Peru (Historia General del Piru, 1616) is one of the most significant Spanish chronicles of Inca history and Peru’s early colonial period yet to be published in English. Written over several decades and approved by King Philip III for publication, Murúa’s magnificent manuscript disappeared from public view for nearly 350 years until its ... Read more

    $29.49 USD

  • Account of the Fables and Rites of the Incas

    by Cristóbal de Molina, Brian S. Bauer, Gabriel E. Cantarutti, Vania Smith-Oka ...
    Series series The William and Bettye Nowlin Series in Art, History, and Culture of the Western Hemisphere
    Only a few decades after the Spanish conquest of Peru, the third Bishop of Cuzco, Sebastián de Lartaún, called for a report on the religious practices of the Incas. The report was prepared by Cristóbal de Molina, a priest of the Hospital for the Natives of Our Lady of Succor in Cuzco and Preacher General of the city. Molina was an outstanding Quechua speaker, and his advanced language skills ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Voices from Vilcabamba

    Accounts Chronicling the Fall of the Inca Empire

    by Brian S. Bauer, Madeleine Halac-Higashimori, Gabriel E. Cantarutti ...
    A rich new source of important archival information, Voices from Vilcabamba examines the fall of the Inca Empire in unprecedented detail. Containing English translations of seven major documents from the Vilcabamba era (1536–1572), this volume presents an overview of the major events that occurred in the Vilcabamba region of Peru during the final decades of Inca rule.Brian S. Bauer, Madeleine ... Read more

    $18.69 USD

  • 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

    $18.99 USD

  • Ancient Cuzco

    Heartland of the Inca

    by Brian S. Bauer ...
    Series series Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture
    The Cuzco Valley of Peru was both the sacred and the political center of the largest state in the prehistoric Americas—the Inca Empire. From the city of Cuzco, the Incas ruled at least eight million people in a realm that stretched from modern-day Colombia to Chile. Yet, despite its great importance in the cultural development of the Americas, the Cuzco Valley has only recently received the same ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • The Sacred Landscape of the Inca

    The Cusco Ceque System

    by Brian S. Bauer ...
    The ceque system of Cusco, the ancient capital of the Inca empire, was perhaps the most complex indigenous ritual system in the pre-Columbian Americas. From a center known as the Coricancha (Golden Enclosure) or the Temple of the Sun, a system of 328 huacas (shrines) arranged along 42 ceques (lines) radiated out toward the mountains surrounding the city. This elaborate network, maintained by ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • 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

    $29.69 USD

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    Inka Perspectives on Rock

    by Carolyn Dean ...
    A major contribution to both art history and Latin American studies, A Culture of Stone offers sophisticated new insights into Inka culture and the interpretation of non-Western art. Carolyn Dean focuses on rock outcrops masterfully integrated into Inka architecture, exquisitely worked masonry, and freestanding sacred rocks, explaining how certain stones took on lives of their own and played a ... Read more

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  • Building Yanhuitlan

    Art, Politics, and Religion in the Mixteca Alta since 1500

    by Alessia Frassani ...
    Through years of fieldwork in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico, art historian and archaeologist Alessia Frassani formulated a compelling question: How did Mesoamerican society maintain its distinctive cultural heritage despite colonization by the Spanish? In Building Yanhuitlan, she focuses on an imposing structure—a sixteenth-century Dominican monastery complex in the village of Yanhuitlan.For ... Read more

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  • The Last Days of the Incas

    by Kim MacQuarrie ...
    The epic story of the fall of the Inca Empire to Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro in the aftermath of a bloody civil war, and the recent discovery of the lost guerrilla capital of the Incas, Vilcabamba, by three American explorers.In 1532, the fifty-four-year-old Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro led a force of 167 men, including his four brothers, to the shores of Peru. Unbeknownst to ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • The Broken Spears 2007 Revised Edition

    The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico

    by Miguel Leon-Portilla ...
    For hundreds of years, the history of the conquest of Mexico and the defeat of the Aztecs has been told in the words of the Spanish victors. Miguel León-Portilla has long been at the forefront of expanding that history to include the voices of indigenous peoples. In this new and updated edition of his classic The Broken Spears, León-Portilla has included accounts from native Aztec descendants ... Read more

    $16.99 USD