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At the Mountains’ Altar(1st Edition)
Anthropology of Religion in an Andean Community
by Frank Salomon
Paperback, 252 Pages, Published 2017 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-1-138-03750-2, ISBN: 1-138-03750-8

"In high-Andean Peru, Rapaz village maintains a temple to mountain beings who command water and weather. By examining the ritual practices and belief systems of an Andean community, this book provides students with rich understandings of unfamiliar religious experiences and delivers theories of religion from the realm of abstraction. From core field encounters, each chapter guides readers outward in a different theoretical direction, suc ..."






The Huarochiri Manuscript(91st Edition)
by Frank Salomon, George L. Urioste, Francisco De Avila, Francisco De Ávila, Jorge Urioste
Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 1991 by University Of Texas Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-292-73053-3, ISBN: 0-292-73053-5

"One of the great repositories of a people's world view and religious beliefs, the Huarochirí Manuscript may bear comparison with such civilization-defining works as Gilgamesh, the Popul Vuh, and the Sagas. This translation by Frank Salomon and George L. Urioste marks the first time the Huarochirí Manuscript has been translated into English, making it available to English-speaking students of Andean culture and world mythology and religi ..."






Native Lords of Quito in the Age of the Incas
The Political Economy of North Andean Chiefdoms (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology)
by Frank Salomon
Paperback, 300 Pages, Published 2007 by Cambridge University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-521-04049-5, ISBN: 0-521-04049-3

"By the time of Columbus, the people of Ecuador's tropical highlands had created small but remarkably complex and interlinked political societies. These small societies for many years proved able to fight off the overwhelming might of the Inca state. But around 1500 they fell to Inca invaders who, in turn, soon lost their dominion to Spanish warlords. Frank Salomon draws on large stores of sources to reconstruct the political and economi ..."






The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas, Vol. 3
South America, Part 2
by Frank Salomon, Stuart B. Schwartz, Bruce G. Trigger, Wilcomb E. Washburn, Murdo J. Macleod, Frank Loewen Salomon
Hardcover, 976 Pages, Published 1999 by Cambridge University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-521-63076-4, ISBN: 0-521-63076-2

"This volume, part of the Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas, is the first major survey of research on the indigenous peoples of South America from the earliest peopling of the continent to the present since Julian Steward's Handbook of South American Indians was published half a century ago. Although this volume concentrates on continental South America, peoples in the Caribbean and lower Central America who were li ..."






The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas, Vol. 3
South America (2 Volume Set)
by Frank Salomon, Stuart B. Schwartz, Bruce G. Trigger, Wilcomb E. Washburn, Murdo J. Macleod
Hardcover, 1,400 Pages, Published 1999 by Cambridge University Press
Box Set
ISBN-13: 978-0-521-33393-1, ISBN: 0-521-33393-8

"This two-volume set of the Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas, is the first major survey of research on the indigenous peoples of South America from the earliest peopling of the continent to the present since Julian Steward's Handbook of South American Indians was published half a century ago. Although this volume concentrates on continental South America, peoples in the Caribbean and lower Central America who were ..."






At the Mountains' Altar
Anthropology of Religion in an Andean Community (Hardback)
by Frank Salomon
Hardcover, 248 Pages, Published 2017 by Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom
ISBN-13: 978-1-138-03746-5, ISBN: 1-138-03746-X

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






The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas, Vol. 3
South America, Part 1
by Frank Salomon, Stuart B. Schwartz, Bruce G. Trigger, Wilcomb E. Washburn, Murdo J. Macleod
Hardcover, 1,070 Pages, Published 1999 by Cambridge University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-521-63075-7, ISBN: 0-521-63075-4

"This volume, part of the Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas, is the first major survey of research on the indigenous peoples of South America from the earliest peopling of the continent to the present since Julian Steward's Handbook of South American Indians was published half a century ago. Although this volume concentrates on continental South America, peoples in the Caribbean and lower Central America who were li ..."






Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology Ser.
Native Lords of Quito in the Age of the Incas : The Political Economy of North Andean Chiefdoms
by Frank Salomon
Printed Access Code, Published 2009 by Cambridge University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-511-55814-6, ISBN: 0-511-55814-7






Native Lords of Quito in the Age of the Incas(1st Edition)
The Political Economy of North Andean Chiefdoms (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology)
by Frank Salomon, Cambridge University Press
Hardcover, 304 Pages, Published 1986 by Cambridge University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-521-30299-9, ISBN: 0-521-30299-4

"By the time of Columbus, the people of Ecuador's tropical highlands had created small but remarkably complex and interlinked political societies. These small societies for many years proved able to fight off the overwhelming might of the Inca state. But around 1500 they fell to Inca invaders who, in turn, soon lost their dominion to Spanish warlords. Frank Salomon draws on large stores of sources to reconstruct the political and economi ..."






The Lettered Mountain
A Peruvian Village’s Way with Writing
by Frank L. Salomon, Mercedes Nino-Murcia
Paperback, 392 Pages, Published 2011 by Duke University Press Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-5044-6, ISBN: 0-8223-5044-0

"Andean peoples joined the world of alphabetic literacy nearly 500 years ago, yet the history of their literacy has remained hidden until now. In "The Lettered Mountain," Frank Salomon and Mercedes NiNo-Murcia expand notions of literacy and challenge stereotypes of Andean "orality" by analyzing the writings of mountain villagers from Inka times to the Internet era. Their historical ethnography is based on extensive research in the villag ..."






The Huarochiri Manuscript(1st Edition)
A Testament of Ancient and Colonial Andean Religion
by Frank Salomon, George L. Urioste, Jorge Urioste, Francisco De Avila
Hardcover, 288 Pages, Published 1991 by University Of Texas Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-292-73052-6, ISBN: 0-292-73052-7

"One of the great repositories of a people's world view and religious beliefs, the Huarochirí Manuscript may bear comparison with such civilization-defining works as Gilgamesh, the Popul Vuh, and the Sagas. This translation by Frank Salomon and George L. Urioste marks the first time the Huarochirí Manuscript has been translated into English, making it available to English-speaking students of Andean culture and world mythology and religi ..."






Titu Cusi
A 16th Century Account of the Conquest (Series on Latin American Studies)
by Frank Salomon, Nicole Delia Legnani, José Antonio Mazzotti, Nd Legnani
Paperback, 236 Pages, Published 2006 by David Rockefeller Center For Latin American Studies
ISBN-13: 978-0-674-01973-7, ISBN: 0-674-01973-3

"First written in 1570, this work now published for the first time in modern Spanish with an English translation sheds light on the Inqa (Inca) world. The writing of Instruccion followed more than a decade of negotiations and skirmishes between Inqa rebels and Spanish officials who were receiving their orders from Spain to find a diplomatic, or alternatively violent, solution to integrate these independently governed territories under Sp ..."






The Cord Keepers(1st Edition)
Khipus and Cultural Life in a Peruvian Village (Latin America Otherwise)
by Frank L. Salomon
Paperback, 368 Pages, Published 2004 by Duke University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-3390-6, ISBN: 0-8223-3390-2

"None of the world's "lost writings" have proven more perplexing than the mysterious script in which the Inka Empire kept its records. Ancient Andean peoples encoded knowledge in knotted cords of cotton or wool called khipus. In The Cord Keepers, the distinguished anthropologist Frank Salomon breaks new ground with a close ethnography of one Andean village where villagers, surprisingly, have conserved a set of these enigmatic cords to th ..."






At the Mountains' Altar
Anthropology of Religion in an Andean Community
by Frank Salomon
236 Pages, Published 2018 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-1-351-71172-2, ISBN: 1-351-71172-5

"Anthropology of Religion in an Andean Community Frank Salomon. Our conservationist commitment to Kaha Wayi and Pasa Qulqa unintentionally brought local philosophical and practical differences to the fore. These local ... By 2005, the childless elder Teodosio Falcón had been retired for many years from his service as bendelhombre. Sometimes he reminisced at his hearth as his wife Teodora prepared supper. Beribboned trophy skulls of ..."






At the Mountains' Altar
Anthropology of Religion in an Andean Community
by Frank Salomon
Digital, 236 Pages, Published 2017 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-1-351-71173-9, ISBN: 1-351-71173-3

"In high-Andean Peru, Rapaz village maintains a temple to mountain beings who command water and weather. By examining the ritual practices and belief systems of an Andean community, this book provides students with rich understandings of unfamiliar religious experiences and delivers theories of religion from the realm of abstraction. From core field encounters, each chapter guides readers outward in a different theoretical direction, suc ..."






Lettered Mountain, the
a Peruvian Village S Way with Writing
by Frank Salomon
Published 2011
ISBN-13: 978-1-283-30384-2, ISBN: 1-283-30384-1






Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology Ser.
Native Lords of Quito in the Age of the Incas : The Political Economy of North Andean Chiefdoms
by Frank Salomon
Published 2011
ISBN-13: 978-0-511-87002-6, ISBN: 0-511-87002-7






The Lettered Mountain
A Peruvian Village's Way with Writing
by Frank Salomon, Mercedes Niño-Murcia
Published 2011
ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-9434-1, ISBN: 0-8223-9434-0






Cord Keepers, The
Khipus and Cultural Life in a Peruvian Village
by Frank Salomon
Published 2004
ISBN-13: 978-1-283-02395-5, ISBN: 1-283-02395-4






Amazonia and the Andes
by Neil L. Whitehead, Robin Wright Ma, Frank Salomon, Dan Beaver, Joanne Rappaport, Fernando Santos-Granero, David Cahill, Mark Goodale, Eduardo O. Kohn, Alfred W. Crosby, Louis S. Warren
Paperback, 252 Pages, Published 2002 by Duke Univ Pr (Tx)
ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-6556-3, ISBN: 0-8223-6556-1

"The essays in Amazonia and the Andes focus on indigenous mediation of colonialism in Latin America."



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