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  | | Beyond the Lettered City Indigenous Literacies in the Andes (Narrating Native Histories) by Joanne Rappaport, Tom Cummins, Thomas Cummins Paperback, 392 Pages, Published 2011 by Duke University Press Books ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-5128-3, ISBN: 0-8223-5128-5 "In Beyond the Lettered City, the anthropologist Joanne Rappaport and the art historian Thomas Cummins examine the colonial imposition of alphabetic and visual literacy on indigenous groups in the northern Andes. They consider how the Andean peoples received, maintained, and subverted the conventions of Spanish literacy, often combining them with their own traditions. Indigenous Andean communities neither used narrative pictorial represe ..." |
 | | Virginia Contract Law (Contract Law Series) by Tom Cummins Paperback, 551 Pages, Published 2019 by Independently Published ISBN-13: 978-1-69698-035-7, ISBN: 1-69698-035-6 "The new gold standard on Virginia contract law. At once fresh, practical, and comprehensive, this is the most authoritative guide to Virginia contract law ever published. With clarity and precision, Virginia Contract Law covers the essentials of contract formation, performance, and breach. It examines the leading defenses to breach of contract claims, available remedies, and principles of contract interpretation. It explains third-party ..." |
 | | Virginia Contract Defenses (Contract Law Series) by Tom Cummins Paperback, 163 Pages, Published 2019 by Independently Published ISBN-13: 978-1-69502-492-2, ISBN: 1-69502-492-3 "The definitive guide to Virginia contract law defenses. Each day, someone is accused of breaching a contract. If you are that person, or your client is, this book is for you. With clarity and precision, it presents the 30 leading defenses to breach of contract claims. More than 60 sample cases illustrate how the defenses operate in practice. And more than 400 footnotes provide additional authorities for the principles under discussion. ..." |
 | | Contracts, A Litigator's Perspective Five Essential Strategies for Companies and Individuals (Contract Law Series) by Tom Cummins Paperback, 51 Pages, Published 2019 by Independently Published ISBN-13: 978-1-69521-299-2, ISBN: 1-69521-299-1 "Each day, large parts of our lives are governed by contracts. Our business lives. Our personal lives. And the spaces in between. Weighty treatises are devoted to the subject, with extended theoretical discussions, learned commentaries, and extensive footnotes. This isn’t that sort of book. Instead, Contracts, A Litigator's Perspective, is simply a concise set of five practical recommendations for improving your contracts, and litigation ..." |
 | | Narrating Native Histories Ser. Beyond the Lettered City : Indigenous Literacies in the Andes by Joanne Rappaport, Tom Cummins Hardcover, Published 2012 by Duke University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-5116-0, ISBN: 0-8223-5116-1 |
 | | Variations in the Expressions of Inka Power (Dumbarton Oaks Other Titles in Pre-Columbian Studies) by Craig Morris, Richard L. Burger, Contributor-Joanne Pillsbury, Ramiro Matos, Contributor-Robert Batson, Ramiro Matos Mendieta, Contributor-Gary Urton, Contributor-Tom Cummins, Contributor-Terence D'altroy, Contributor-Heather Lechtman, Contributor-Carmen Arellano, Contributor-Albert Meyers, Contributor-Charles Stanish, Jeffrey Quilter, Brian S. Bauer, Ana Maria Lorandi, Susan A. Niles, Prof Joanne Pillsbury, Carrie J. Brezine, Lucy C. Salazar, Julian I. Santillana, Rebecca Rollins Stone, Veronica Isabel Williams, Carmen Arellano, Ramiros M. Mendieta Hardcover, 640 Pages, Published 2008 by Dumbarton Oaks Research Library And Collection ISBN-13: 978-0-88402-351-7, ISBN: 0-88402-351-6 " Download a corrected version of the map of the Lake Titicaca region. Download a corrected version of page 83. Download a corrected version of the map of the Huatanuay and Vilcanota-Urubama Valley region. Until recently, little archaeological investigation has been dedicated to the Inka, the last great culture to flourish in Andean South America before the sixteenth-century arrival of the Spaniards. While the Inka have been tr ..." |
 | | Book 3 The Nest (Star Wars: Adventures in Wild Space) by Tom Huddleston, Lucy Ruth Cummins, David Buisan, Buisan David Library, 136 Pages, Published 2019 by Spotlight ISBN-13: 978-1-5321-4319-9, ISBN: 1-5321-4319-2 |
 | | Toasts with the Inca(Updated) Andean Abstraction and Colonial Images on Quero Vessels (History, Languages, and Cultures of the Spanish and Portuguese Worlds) by Tom Cummins, Thomas B. Cummins Hardcover, 472 Pages, Published 2002 by University Of Michigan Press ISBN-13: 978-0-472-11051-3, ISBN: 0-472-11051-9 "Original both in its subject matter and in its methodology, Toasts with the Inca examines the Inca through their use of early colonial wooden drinking cups called keros. While these have survived in substantial numbers, they have received little scholarly attention until now. In this fascinating study of the keros's imagery, Thomas Cummins has reconstructed an entire world of ritual and religious and political relationships that previou ..." |
 | | God Goes to Work(1st Edition) New Thought Paths to Prosperity and Profits by Tom Zender Hardcover, 235 Pages, Published 2010 by Wiley ISBN-13: 978-0-470-56365-6, ISBN: 0-470-56365-6 |
 | | Writing Without Words(2nd Edition) Alternative Literacies in Mesoamerica and the Andes by Dr Elizabeth Hill Boone, Walter D. Mignolo, Prof Stephen Houston, Contributor-Tom Cummins, Contributor-John Pohl, Mark B. King, Contributor-Stephen Houston, Contributor-Elizabeth Boone, Contributor-Mark King Paperback, 324 Pages, Published 1994 by Duke University Press Books ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-1388-5, ISBN: 0-8223-1388-X "The history of writing, or so the standard story goes, is an ascending process, evolving toward the alphabet and finally culminating in the "full writing" of recorded speech. Writing without Words challenges this orthodoxy, and with it widespread notions of literacy and dominant views of art and literature, history and geography. Asking how knowledge was encoded and preserved in Pre-Columbian and early colonial Mesoamerican cultures, th ..." |
 | | Sacred Matter Animacy and Authority in the Americas (Dumbarton Oaks Pre-Columbian Symposia and Colloquia) by Steve Kosiba, John Wayne Janusek, Tom Cummins Hardcover, 320 Pages, Published 2020 by Dumbarton Oaks Research Library And Collection ISBN-13: 978-0-88402-466-8, ISBN: 0-88402-466-0 "Sacred Matter: Animacy and Authority in the Americas examines animism in Pre-Columbian America, focusing on the central roles objects and places played in practices that expressed and sanctified political authority in the Andes, Amazon, and Mesoamerica.Pre-Columbian peoples staked claims to their authority when they animated matter by giving life to grandiose buildings, speaking with deified boulders, and killing valued objects. Likewis ..." |
 | | World Antiquarianism(1st Edition) Comparative Perspectives (Issues & Debates) by Alain Schnapp, Tim Murray, Lothar Von Falkenhausen, Peter N. Miller, Getty Research Institute, Tom Cummins, Emily A. Engel, Barbara Christine Anderson Paperback, 464 Pages, Published 2014 by Getty Research Institute ISBN-13: 978-1-60606-148-0, ISBN: 1-60606-148-8 "This book explores the concept of antiquarianism and recasts its role for a new generation. The term antiquarianism refers to engagement with the material heritage of the past - an engagement that preceded the modern academic discipline of archaeology. Antiquarian activities result in the elaboration of particular social behaviours and the production of tools for exploring the collective memory. This book is the first to compare antiqua ..." |
 | | Narrating Native Histories Ser. Beyond the Lettered City : Indigenous Literacies in the Andes by Joanne Rappaport, Tom Cummins Published 2011 ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-9475-4, ISBN: 0-8223-9475-8 |
 | | Global Gold by Tom Cummins Softcover, Published 2024 by Harvard University Press 2024-05-31, Cambridge ISBN-13: 978-0-674-29617-6, ISBN: 0-674-29617-6 |
 | | Writing Without Words Alternative Literacies in Mesoamerica and the Andes by Dr Elizabeth Hill Boone, Walter D. Mignolo, Prof Stephen Houston, Margaret J. Goldstein, Mark B. King, John Pohl, Tom Cummins Hardcover, 336 Pages, Published 1994 by Duke Univ Pr (Tx) ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-1377-9, ISBN: 0-8223-1377-4 "The history of writing, or so the standard story goes, is an ascending process, evolving toward the alphabet and finally culminating in the "full writing" of recorded speech. "Writing without Words" challenges this orthodoxy, and with it widespread notions of literacy and dominant views of art and literature, history and geography. Asking how knowledge was encoded and preserved in Pre-Columbian and early colonial Mesoamerican cultures, ..." |
 | | Guaman Poma De Ayala The Colonial Art of an Andean Author by Rolena Adorno, Tom Cummins, Mercedes Lopez-Baralt, Teresa Gisbert, John V. Murra Paperback, 114 Pages, Published 1992 by Americas Society ISBN-13: 978-1-879128-04-0, ISBN: 1-879128-04-7 "This book is in very good condition. There is a slight bit of shelf wear at the covers edges. The spine is not broken and the pages show no wear or use. In non book terms, this is a beautiful book by the Americas Society that takes an in depth look at Guaman Poma's illustrations and letters." |
 | | The Magic of Change! The Illusion, the Excitement, the Reward by Tom Britton, Kent Cummins Hardcover, 192 Pages, Published 2000 by Bullion Books ISBN-13: 978-0-9651376-5-2, ISBN: 0-9651376-5-1 |
 | | Poppies Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red by Imperial War Museums, Paul Cummins, Tom Piper Hardcover, 224 Pages, Published 2018 by Imperial War Museums ISBN-13: 978-1-904897-51-4, ISBN: 1-904897-51-7 |
 | | Native Traditions in the Postconquest World (Dumbarton Oaks Pre-Columbian Symposia and Colloquia) by Elizabeth Hill Boone, Tom Cummins Hardcover, 480 Pages, Published 1998 by Dumbarton Oaks Research Library And Collection ISBN-13: 978-0-88402-239-8, ISBN: 0-88402-239-0 "A Symposium at Dumbarton Oaks, 2nd Through 4th October 1992 Elizabeth Hill Boone, Tom Cummins. Although Guaman Poma is ... In the trilingual confessional — Spanish, Aymara, and Quechua — Indians were first asked, in regard to the fourth commandment: "have you [in the informal as if speaking to a child| honored your parents or grandparents, the priests, the justices, and have you obeyed the kurakas in all the proper things they comm ..." |
 | | The Portable Universe/El Universo En Tus Manos Thought and Splendor of Indigenous Colombia by Julia Burtenshaw, Héctor García Botero, Diana Magaloni 344 Pages, Published 2022 by Delmonico Books ISBN-13: 978-1-63681-022-5, ISBN: 1-63681-022-5 |
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