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  • Inka Bird Idiom

    Amazonian Feathers in the Andes

    de Claudia Brosseder ...
    Series series Pitt Latin American Series
    From majestic Amazonian macaws and highland Andean hawks to tiny colorful tanagers and tall flamingos, birds and their feathers played an important role in the Inka empire. Claudia Brosseder uncovers the many meanings that Inkas attached to the diverse fowl of the Amazon, the eastern Andean foothills, and the highlands. She shows how birds and feathers shaped Inka politics, launched wars, and ... Leer más

    $58.49 USD

  • The Power of Huacas

    Change and Resistance in the Andean World of Colonial Peru

    de Claudia Brosseder ...
    Based on extensive archival research, The Power of Huacas is the first book to take account of the reciprocal effects of religious colonization as they impacted Andean populations and, simultaneously, dramatically changed the culture and beliefs of Spanish Christians.Winner, Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion in the category of Historical Studies, American Academy of Religion, 2015The ... Leer más

    $58.99 USD

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  • Interregional Interaction in Ancient Mesoamerica

    Edición de Joshua Englehardt, Michael D. Carrasco ...
    Interregional Interaction in Ancient Mesoamerica explores the role of interregional interaction in the dynamic sociocultural processes that shaped the pre-Columbian societies of Mesoamerica. Interdisciplinary contributions from leading scholars investigate linguistic exchange and borrowing, scribal practices, settlement patterns, ceramics, iconography, and trade systems, presenting a variety of ... Leer más

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  • The Inca

    Lost Civilizations

    de Kevin Lane ...
    Series Libro 13 - Lost Civilizations
    In their heyday the Inca ruled over the largest land empire in the Americas, reaching the pinnacle of South American civilization. Known as the ‘Romans of the Americas’, these fabulous engineers converted the vertiginous, challenging landscapes of the Andes into a fertile region able to feed millions, alongside building royal estates such as Machu Picchu and a 40,000-kilometre road network ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD

  • The Death of Aztec Tenochtitlan, the Life of Mexico City

    de Barbara E. Mundy ...
    Series series Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture
    Winner, Book Prize in Latin American Studies, Colonial Section of Latin American Studies Association (LASA), 2016ALAA Book Award, Association for Latin American Art/Arvey Foundation, 2016The capital of the Aztec empire, Tenochtitlan, was, in its era, one of the largest cities in the world. Built on an island in the middle of a shallow lake, its population numbered perhaps 150,000, with another 350 ... Leer más

    $44.99 USD

  • Pre-Columbian America

    Empires of the New World

    de Kathleen Kuiper ...
    Series series Britannica Guide to Ancient Civilizations
    From the Mayan calendar to the Toltec architecture at Chichén Itzá, the bequests of ancient Mesoamerican civilizations have endured long after the societies that created them declined. The intellectual and cultural achievements of Pre-Columbian America rivaled those of ancient Rome and Egypt, and greatly enriched the landscape of present-day Mexico and Central America. The traditions, social ... Leer más

    $37.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Great Inka Road

    Engineering an Empire

    de John Oschendorf ...
    This compelling collection of essays explores the Qhapaq nan (or Great Inca Road), an extensive network of trails reaching modern-day Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, and Argentina. These roads and the accompanying agricultural terraces and structures that have survived for more than six centuries are a testament to the advanced engineering and construction skills of the Inca people. The ... Leer más

    $39.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of the Aztecs

    Edición de Deborah L. Nichols, Enrique Rodríguez-Alegría ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of the Aztecs, the first of its kind, provides a current overview of recent research on the Aztec empire, the best documented prehispanic society in the Americas. Chapters span from the establishment of Aztec city-states to the encounter with the Spanish empire and the Colonial period that shaped the modern world. Articles in the Handbook take up new research trends and ... Leer más

    $46.79 USD

  • Rubble

    The Afterlife of Destruction

    de Gastón R. Gordillo ...
    At the foot of the Argentine Andes, bulldozers are destroying forests and homes to create soy fields in an area already strewn with rubble from previous waves of destruction and violence. Based on ethnographic research in this region where the mountains give way to the Gran Chaco lowlands, Gastón R. Gordillo shows how geographic space is inseparable from the material, historical, and affective ... Leer más

    $20.99 USD

  • The Fate of Earthly Things

    Aztec Gods and God-Bodies

    de Molly H. Bassett ...
    Series series Recovering Languages and Literacies of the Americas
    "Bassett at last provides a path to understand better the specifically Aztec characteristics of the teteoh and their ritual 'embodiments.'" — EthnohistoryFollowing their first contact in 1519, accounts of Aztecs identifying Spaniards as gods proliferated. But what exactly did the Aztecs mean by a "god" ( teotl), and how could human beings become gods or take on godlike properties? This ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Tame and the Wild

    People and Animals after 1492

    de Marcy Norton ...
    A dramatic new interpretation of the encounter between Europe and the Americas that reveals the crucial role of animals in the shaping of the modern world.When the men and women of the island of Guanahani first made contact with Christopher Columbus and his crew on October 12, 1492, the cultural differences between the two groups were vaster than the oceans that had separated them. There is ... Leer más

    $24.59 USD

  • A Pre-Columbian Bestiary

    Fantastic Creatures of Indigenous Latin America

    de Ilan Stavans ...
    An encyclopedic collaboration between award-winning Mexican American scholar Ilan Stavans and illustrator Eko, A Pre-Columbian Bestiary features lively and informative descriptions of forty-six religious, mythical, and imaginary creatures from the Nahua, Aztec, Maya, Tabasco, Inca, Aymara, and other cultures of Latin America.From the siren-like Acuecuéyotl and the water animal Chaac to the class ... Leer más

    $6.99 USD