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This book interrogates theories in the anthropology of religion through examining the ritual practices of the Andean community of Rapaz"--

This book interrogates theories in the anthropology of religion through examining the ritual practices of the Andean community of Rapaz"--

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An ethnography of Andean knot writing, where media convey information without an alphabet or any other visual likeness of speech, examining the ways that such "mute inscription" communicates social experience.

An ethnography of Andean knot writing, where media convey information without an alphabet or any other visual likeness of speech, examining the ways that such "mute inscription" communicates social experience.

This work represents the most fulsome and developed narrative available to us of how local people in a provincial setting in the Inca Empire conceived of their society and its past.... This book will stand for some time as the definitive transcription and English translation of a seminal document in Andean cultural history." -- American Anthropologist

Frank Salomon is the John V. Murra Professor of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is the author of The Cord Keepers: Khipus and Cultural Life in a Peruvian Village, also published by Duke University Press.Mercedes Niño-Murcia is Chair of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and Associate Director of the Division of World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at the University of Iowa. She is a co-editor of Bilingualis...

This volume is a major survey of research on the indigenous peoples of South America.

This volume is a major survey of research on the indigenous peoples of South America.

This two-volume set is a major survey of research on the indigenous peoples of South America.

Frank Salomon is the John V. Murra Professor of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is the author of The Cord Keepers: Khipus and Cultural Life in a Peruvian Village, also published by Duke University Press.Mercedes Niño-Murcia is Chair of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and Associate Director of the Division of World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at the University of Iowa. She is a co-editor of Bilingualis...

In this study Frank Salomon draws on large stores of sources to reconstruct the political and economic institutions of pre-Inca societies.

Examines how Amerindian graphic codes interacted with alphabetic writing in the colonial polities of the Americas. This title focuses on colonial interactions in North America, Mesoamerica, and South America, and on how both alphabets and indigenous systems helped form the basis of colonial control and resistance.