The Andes

This guide contains bibliographic references and links to internet resources for Andean Archaeology and Ethnography.

Recommended Reading:

The American Finances of the Spanish Empire: Royal Income and Expenditures in Colonial Mexico, Peru, and Bolivia, 1680-1809 by Herbert S. Klein 1998

The Ancient Kingdoms of Peru by Nigel Davies 1998

The Andean Cocaine Industry by Patrick L. Clawson, et al 1998

Archaeological Explorations in Nazca, Peru: The 1926 Marshall Field Expedition 1998

Between Field and Cooking Pot: The Political Economy of Marketwomen in Peru by Florence E. Babb 1998

The Cities of the Ancient Andes by Adriana Von Hagen, et al 1998

The Cordillera Del Condor Region of Ecuador and Peru: A Biological Assessment by Thomas S. Schulenberg & Kim Awbrey (Editors) 1998

Discovering the Inca Ice Maiden: My Adventures on Ampato by Johan Reinhard 1998

Economic, Environmental, and Health Tradeoffs in Agriculture: Pesticides and the Sustainability of Andean Potato Production by Charles C. Crissman (Editor), et al 1997

Ecuador Peru Bolivia (Country Fact Files) by Edward Parker 1998

The Gift of Life : Female Spirituality and Healing in Northern Peru by Bonnie Glass-Coffin 1998

History of the Inca Realms by Maria Rostworowski De Diez Canseco, et al 1998

The Huarochiri Manuscript: a Testament of Ancient and Colonial Andean Religion by Frank Salomon and George Urioste (Editors of Translation) 1991

I Am Rich Potosi by Stephen Ferri 1999

Laricollaguas: Ecology, Economy, and Demography in a Seventeenth-Century Peruvian Village by David J. Robinson 1998

Lonely Planet Quechua Phrasebook (Lonely Planet Language Survival Kit) 1990

Mixed Categories: Nominalizations in Quecha by Claire Lefebvre & Pieter Muysken 1988

Pathways of Memory and Power: Ethnography and History Among an Andean People by Thomas Alan Abercrombie 1998

Peru (Festivals of the World) by Leslie Jermyn & Susan McKay (Editors) 1998

Peru in Focus: A Guide to the People, Politics and Culture (Serial) by Jane Holligan De Diaz-Limaco, et al 1998

Poetry in Indigenous Languages; Pichka Harawikuna: Five Quechua Poets by Julio Noriega Bernuy (Editor) 1998

Montane Foragers: Asana and the South-Central Andean Archaic by Mark S. Aldenderfer 1998

Recent Advances in the Archaeology of the Northern Andes: In Memory of Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff by Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff (Editor) & Augusto Oyuela-Caycedo (Editor) 1998

Revolutionary Movements in Latin America : El Salvador's Fmln & Peru's Shining Path by Cynthia McClintock 1998

Shining and Other Paths: War and Society in Peru, 1980-1995 by Steve J. Stern (Editor)1998

Wari Imperialism in Middle Horizon Peru by Katharina J. Schreiber 1992

 

Links:

  1. Ancient Raised Field Agriculture: Applied Archaeology in the Bolivian Amazon
  2. Ancient Civilizations of the Andes
  3. Andean Bioarchaeology Web Page
  4. Arqueologia del Peru
  5. Archaeology Research in Peru
  6. Archaeological Research in Peru - Natural History Museum of Los Angeles
  7. The Aymara Page
  8. The Aymara Society
  9. Aymara Basic Vocabulary
  10. Research at Cerro Baul, Peru - University of Florida
  11. Canton Tapalque Viejo
  12. The Chilca Valley, Peru Explore the prehistory and ecology of Peru's Chilca Valley. This site contains information on the origins of sedentism and agriculture in the Andes. Featured sites include Paloma, Kiqche and Tres Ventanas.
  13. The Chinchorro Occupation at Villa Del Mar, Ilo, Peru
  14. Cultures of the Andes
  15. University of Calgary, Current Research in South America
  16. Imgenes del Patrimonio, Cultura Aconcagua
  17. Museo Chileno De Arte Precolombio
  18. Nazca, Peru
  19. PalomaWorld: A virtual tour of a three thousand year old Peruvian fishing village. Visitors can 'fly-through' a 3D reconstruction of the village and excavate a portion of the site. Requires Shockwave plug-in.
  20. Pre-Columbian Art (Krannert Art Museum)
  21. Proyecto Ai Apaec
  22. Quechua Language Page
  23. Quechua Resources
  24. Quechua Vocabulary
  25. Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de Chile