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Book Garcilaso de la Vega  El Inca and His Sources in  Comentarios Reales de Los Incas     The Hague  usw    Mouton 1971  167 S  8

Download or read book Garcilaso de la Vega El Inca and His Sources in Comentarios Reales de Los Incas The Hague usw Mouton 1971 167 S 8 written by Frances G. Crowley and published by Hague : Mouton. This book was released on 1971 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Library of Congress Catalog

Download or read book Library of Congress Catalog written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 1032 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning with 1953, entries for Motion pictures and filmstrips, Music and phonorecords form separate parts of the Library of Congress catalogue. Entries for Maps and atlases were issued separately 1953-1955.

Book Palaces of the Ancient New World

Download or read book Palaces of the Ancient New World written by Susan Toby Evans and published by Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection. This book was released on 2004 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the most sumptuous buildings of antiquity were royal palaces. As in the Old World, kings and nobles of ancient Mexico and Peru had luxurious administrative quarters in cities, and exquisite pleasure palaces in the countryside. This volume explores the great houses of the ancient New World, from palaces of the Aztecs and Incas, looted by the Spanish conquistadors, to those lost high in the Andes and deep in the jungle. This volume, the first scholarly compendium of elite residences of the high cultures of the New World, presents definitive descriptions and interpretations by leading scholars in the field. Authoritative yet accessible, this extensively illustrated book will serve as an important resource for anthropologists, archaeologists, and historians of art, architecture, and related disciplines.

Book Spell of the Urubamba

Download or read book Spell of the Urubamba written by Daniel W. Gade and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-10-05 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work examines the valley of the Urubamba River in terms of vertical zonation, Incan impact on the environment, plant use, the history of exploration and the notion of discovery, the idea of land reform, and cultural contact with the European world. Winding its path northward from the Andean Highlands to the Amazon, the valley has served as the stage of pre-Columbian civilizations and focal point of Spanish conquest in Peru. "Gade left behind not only a superb body of scholarly work, but a network of colleagues and students who remain indebted to his example. This book should serve as an inspiration for all scholars who wish to pursue the Sauerian, counter enlightenment or post development agendas of understanding and respecting particular places in all their historical and cultural complexity, including ambiguities and contradictions." -- The Geographical Review, American Geographical Society

Book A New Science

    Book Details:
  • Author : Guy G. Stroumsa
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2010-06-15
  • ISBN : 9780674048607
  • Pages : 248 pages

Download or read book A New Science written by Guy G. Stroumsa and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2010-06-15 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guy Stroumsa offers an innovative and powerful argument that the comparative study of religion finds its origin in early modern Europe. --from publisher description.

Book The Spiritual Quest

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  • Author : Robert M. Torrance
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2023-09-01
  • ISBN : 0520920163
  • Pages : 387 pages

Download or read book The Spiritual Quest written by Robert M. Torrance and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-09-01 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Torrance's wide-ranging, innovative study argues that the spiritual quest is rooted in our biological, psychological, linguistic, and social nature. The quest is not, as most have believed, a rare mystical experience, but a frequent expression of our most basic human impulses. Shaman and scientist, medium and poet, prophet and philosopher, all venture forth in quest of visionary truths to transform and renew the world. Yet Torrance is not trying to reduce the quest to an "archetype" or "monomyth." Instead, he presents the full diversity of the quest in the myths and religious practices of tribal peoples throughout the world, from Oceania to India, Africa, Siberia, and especially the Americas. In theorizing about the quest, Torrance draws on thinkers as diverse as Bergson and Piaget, van Gennep and Turner, Pierce and Popper, Freud, Darwin, and Chomsky. This is a book that will expand our knowledge—and awareness—of a fundamental human activity in all its fascinating complexity.

Book River of Fleece  River of Song

Download or read book River of Fleece River of Song written by Denise Y. Arnold and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Construction of Value in the Ancient World

Download or read book The Construction of Value in the Ancient World written by John K. Papadopoulos and published by Cotsen Institute of Archaeology. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recipient of the Jo Anne Stolaroff Cotsen Prize Scholars from Aristotle to Marx and beyond have been fascinated by the question of what constitutes value. The Construction of Value in the Ancient World makes a significant contribution to this ongoing inquiry, bringing together in one comprehensive volume the perspectives of leading anthropologists, archaeologists, historians, linguists, philologists, and sociologists on how value was created, defined, and expressed in a number of ancient societies around the world. Based on the basic premise that value is a social construct defined by the cultural context in which it is situated, the volume explores four overarching but closely interrelated themes: place value, body value, object value, and number value. The questions raised and addressed are of central importance to archaeologists studying ancient civilizations: How can we understand the value that might have been accorded to materials, objects, people, places, and patterns of action by those who produced or used the things that compose the human material record? Taken as a whole, the contributions to this volume demonstrate how the concept of value lies at the intersection of individual and collective tastes, desires, sentiments, and attitudes that inform the ways people select, or give priority to, one thing over another.

Book A grammar of Yauyos Quechua

Download or read book A grammar of Yauyos Quechua written by Aviva Shimelman and published by Language Science Press. This book was released on 2017-03-29 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a synchronic grammar of the southern dialects of Yauyos, an extremely endangered Quechuan language spoken in the Peruvian Andes. As the language is highly synthetic, the grammar focuses principally on morphology; a longer section is dedicated to the language's unusual evidential system. The grammar's 1400 examples are drawn from a 24-hour corpus of transcribed recordings collected in the course of the documentation of the language.

Book The Incas

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  • Author : Garcilaso de la Vega
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1966
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 456 pages

Download or read book The Incas written by Garcilaso de la Vega and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Incas

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  • Author : Garcilaso de la Vega
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1964
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 447 pages

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Book Chavin and the Origins of Andean Civilization

Download or read book Chavin and the Origins of Andean Civilization written by Richard L. Burger and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 1995 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first detailed up-to-date account in English of Chavin and its precursors. Based on the author's intimate knowledge of unprecedented discoveries made over the past two decades, including his own excavations at Chavin and elsewhere, it places special emphasis on the unique character of early Andean civilization and the distinctive processes responsible for its development. A wealth of photographs, drawings and maps accompany the text, including for this expanded edition a new section of color plates.

Book Colors Between Two Worlds

Download or read book Colors Between Two Worlds written by Gerhard Wolf and published by Villa I Tatti. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For half a century the Franciscan friar Bernardino de SahagÃon (1499âe"1590) worked on a compendium of the beliefs, rituals, language, arts, and economy of the vanishing Aztec culture. This volume examines the Aztec use of colorâe"in art and everyday lifeâe"as revealed in the Codex, the most richly illustrated manuscript of this great ethnographic work.

Book A Companion to Latin American Anthropology

Download or read book A Companion to Latin American Anthropology written by Deborah Poole and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-12-21 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprised of 24 newly commissioned chapters, this defining reference volume on Latin America introduces English-language readers to the debates, traditions, and sensibilities that have shaped the study of this diverse region. Contributors include some of the most prominent figures in Latin American and Latin Americanist anthropology Offers previously unpublished work from Latin America scholars that has been translated into English explicitly for this volume Includes overviews of national anthropologies in Mexico, Cuba, Peru, Argentina, Ecuador, Bolivia, Colombia, and Brazil, and is also topically focused on new research Draws on original ethnographic and archival research Highlights national and regional debates Provides a vivid sense of how anthropologists often combine intellectual and political work to address the pressing social and cultural issues of Latin America

Book The Cultural Politics of Blood  1500 1900

Download or read book The Cultural Politics of Blood 1500 1900 written by Kimberly Anne Coles and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-01-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays of this collection explore how ideas about 'blood' in science and literature have supported, at various points in history and in various places in the circum-Atlantic world, fantasies of human embodiment and human difference that serve to naturalize existing hierarchies.

Book Language  Authority  and Indigenous History in the Comentarios Reales de Los Incas

Download or read book Language Authority and Indigenous History in the Comentarios Reales de Los Incas written by Margarita Zamora and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1988-05-27 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of the Comentarios is original both in adopting the perspective of discourse analysis and in its interdisciplinary approach.

Book The Incas

    Book Details:
  • Author : Garcilaso de la Vega
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2003-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780758173195
  • Pages : 432 pages

Download or read book The Incas written by Garcilaso de la Vega and published by . This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: