Andean Studies: Reference: Subject Sources

10 volumes.

Six volumes.

"128 individual entries explore wide-ranging themes (religion, architecture, farming) and specific topics (ceremonial drinking cup, astronomy), interweaving ethnohistoric and archaeological research with nuanced interpretation. Each entry provides suggestions for further reading. Sidebars profiling chroniclers and researchers of Inca life--ranging from Jose de Acosta and Cristobal de Albornoz to Maria Rostworowski and R. Tom Zuidema--add depth and context for the cultural entries."

"Wilson explores the 5,000-mile... [mountain change and its countries]...through the insights of chroniclers, scientists, and modern-day novelists."

"This landmark three-volume reference work inventories the principal sources useful for the study of the region--particularly its Prehispanic and vice-regal cultures--covering relevant texts from the sixteenth through the nineteenth century. With written contributions by 122 scholars from nineteen countries and amply illustrated with drawings, engravings, photographs, and maps, the Guide offers new perspectives on key works and reflects substantial changes in historical and cultural studies of the past fifty years."

"This detailed study is the only reference work of its kind to address Spain's conquest of Central and South America, providing in-depth coverage of native and European ideologies, political motivations, and cultural practices of the region."

A multimedia collection of work by John Cohen on Peru that includes photographs, textiles, music, films, etc.

three volumes.

8 volumes.

"...places all key mythological tales and historical developments in chronological order...A-Z dictionary section gives entries for key deities, creatures, characters, rituals, sacred objects, running themes, and beliefs in Inca mythology, as well as important cultural and historical terms, people, and places."

"Historical as well as contemporary descriptions of approximately 500 existing tribes or groups of people are provided along with several bibliographic citations at the conclusion of each entry.... For the vast majority of his entries, James S. Olson draws material from the Smithsonian Institution's seven-volume Handbook of South American Indians as well as other classic resources of a broad, general nature. "