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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

  • Social Skins of the Head

    inbunden, 2018, Engelska, ISBN 9780826359636

    The meanings of ritualized head treatments among ancient Mesoamerican and Andean peoples is the subject of this book, the first overarching coverage of an important subject. Heads

  • Art of the Andes

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    häftad, 2012, Engelska, ISBN 9780500204153

    This wide-ranging survey, now established as the best single-volume introduction to Andean art and architecture on the market today, describes the strikingly varied artistic

  • Conservation of Andean Forests

    E-bok, 2025, Engelska, ISBN 9783031808050

    This book addresses recent and novel studies with ecological and conservation relevance of forest ecosystems in the Andes. It provides new insights in a multi-scale perspective

  • Tenahaha and the Wari State

    E-bok, 2015, Engelska, ISBN 9780817387815

    The Middle Horizon period (A.D. 600-1000) was a time of sweeping cultural change in the Andes. Archaeologists have long associated this period with the expansion of the Wari

  • Intimate Indigeneities

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    E-bok, 2012, Engelska, ISBN 9780822395379

    Drawing on extended ethnographic research conducted over the course of more than two decades, Andrew Canessa explores the multiple identities of a community of people in the

  • 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

  • Ethnicity, Markets, and Migration in the Andes

    E-bok, 1995, Engelska, ISBN 9780822379867

    Until now, Andean peasants have primarily been thought of by scholars as isolated subsistence farmers, "e;resistant"e; to money and to different markets in the region.

  • Local Experiences of Mining in Peru

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    inbunden, 2020, Engelska, ISBN 9780367258863
    Från 691 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