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  • Vicuña

    inbunden, 2013, Engelska, ISBN 9788857213866

    After Baby Cashmere and The Lotus Flower, Loro Piana tells us the story of the vicuña and its coveted fibre. The vicuña is a small camelid that lives in the high alpine areas of

  • Devil in the Mountain

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    pocket, 2006, Engelska, ISBN 9780691126203

    How do high mountain ranges form on the face of the Earth? This question has intrigued some of the greatest philosophers and scientists, going back as far as the ancient Greeks.

  • Of Beasts and Beauty

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    häftad, 2013, Engelska, ISBN 9781477302224

    All societies around the world and through time value beauty highly. Tracing the evolutions of the Colombian standards of beauty since 1845, Michael Edward Stanfield explores their

  • Long Live Atahualpa

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    E-bok, 2012, Engelska, ISBN 9780822395096

    Long Live Atahualpa is an innovative ethnographic study of indigenous political movements against discrimination in modern Ecuador. Exploring the politicizing of Indianness-the

  • Local Experiences of Mining in Peru

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    inbunden, 2020, Engelska, ISBN 9780367258863
    Från 800 kr

    This book uses a multimethod approach to examine local experience of contemporary mining development in the Peruvian Andes, creating an understanding of the transformations that

  • Andes

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    E-bok, 2011, Engelska, ISBN 9781847083869

    Stretching for over 5500 miles, and containing the highest active volcanoes in the world, the largest salt flat, the highest lake, and peaks rivalled in size only by the Himalayas,

  • Heads of State

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    E-bok, 2016, Engelska, ISBN 9781315427560

    The human head has had important political, ritual and symbolic meanings throughout Andean history. Scholars have spoken of captured and trophy heads, curated crania, symbolic

  • Returning to Q'ero

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    inbunden, 2023, Engelska, ISBN 9783031049712

    In this book, social anthropologist Steven Webster provides an ethnohistory of sustainability among the indigenous Andean community of Hatun Q’ero since the 1960s. He first

  • Mercury, Mining, and Empire

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    E-bok, 2011, Engelska, ISBN 9780253005380

    On the basis of an examination of the colonial mercury and silver production processes and related labor systems, Mercury, Mining, and Empire explores the effects of mercury

  • Histories of Race and Racism

    pocket, 2011, Engelska, ISBN 9780822350439

    Ninety percent of the indigenous population in the Americas lives in the Andean and Mesoamerican nations of Bolivia, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, and Guatemala. Recently indigenous