The Andean World

1. Strategically relevant Andean environments
2. The domesticated landscapes of the Andes
3. Water and power in the Peruvian Andes
4. Radical changes in the development of Andean civilization
5. Prehispanic social organization, integration, and hierarchy
6. Life and death in the Central Andes: human biology, violence, and burial patterns in ancient Peru
7. The Andean circulatory cosmos
8. Northern Andean cosmology and Otavalan hip hop
9. The Andean material world
10. The conquest of the Andes from Andean perspectives
11. Violence, resistance, and intercultural adaptations
12. Viracocha vs. God: Andean thought and cultural change in colonial Bolivia
13. Making and unmaking the Andean food pyramid: agronomy, animal science, and ideology
14. Drinking together: continuity and change in the Andean world
15. Kinship, households, and sociality
16. Production, trade, reciprocity, and markets
17. Andean gods and Catholic saints: indigenous and Catholic intercultural encounters
18. Evangelicalism in the rural Andes
19. Nation-making and nationalism
20. Ordinary states: fantasy, fear, and displacement in twentieth-century Peruvian state formation
21. Agrarian reform and “development”
22. Revolutions and violence
23. Extreme violence in museums of memory: the place of memory in Peru
24. “Indian” identity and indigenous revitalization movements
25. The multicultural turn, the new Latin American constitutionalism, and black social movements in the Andean sub-region
26. Gender and sexuality in the Andes
27. Labeling and linguistic discrimination
28. Patron saint festivals and dance in Peru: histories told from within
29. Andean musical expressions: ethnographic notes on materialities, ontologies, and alterities
30. Envisaging Andean indigeneity through photographic and audiovisual technologies
31. Art for a modern Peru: the poetics and polemics of Indigenismo
32. Three axes of variability in Quechua: regional diversification, contact with other indigenous languages, and social enregisterment
33. Documents, law, and the state in the Andes
34. Education, power, and distinctions
35. Hip hop and guinea pigs: contextualizing the urban Andes
36. Plurinationality, indigeneity, neoliberalism, and social movements
37. Citizenship and rights
38. Transnational circuits: migration, money, and might in Peru’s Andean communities
39. The political and cultural economies of tourism in the Andes
40. Archaeology, looting, and cultural heritage in the Andes
41. Growing coca leaf in the midst of the war against cocaine
42. Water rights, extractive resources, and petroleum politics

This comprehensive reference offers an authoritative overview of Andean lifeways. It provides valuable historical context, and demonstrates the relevance of learning about the Andes in light of contemporary events and debates. The volume covers the ecology and pre-Columbian history of the region, and addresses key themes such as cosmology, aesthetics, gender and household relations, modes of economic production, exchange, and consumption, postcolonial legacies, identities, political organization and movements, and transnational interconnections. With over 40 essays by expert contributors that highlight the breadth and depth of Andean worlds, this is an essential resource for students and scholars alike.