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The Andean Cross

Author : Lawrence Clayton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781648038358
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (383 download)

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Download or read book The Andean Cross written by Lawrence Clayton and published by . This book was released on 2022-01-28 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever since Europeans discovered and came to conquer and colonize the Americas, a great question occupied European Christians. Did Jesus Christ, or his immediate successors the Apostles and the first Christians who followed, cross the great Atlantic or Pacific Oceans and proselytize among the indigenous peoples of the New World? Read the story of what may have happened. Using his knowledge of the age of the Conquest, the author begins with a shipwreck and an artifact and weaves the story of the Andean cross, a piece of Christian culture that is both American and European. This faced-paced story spanning Europe, North America, and Latin America will electrify you with its implications on the great age of the Encounter and the secrets and mysteries of Christianity that still fascinate so many.

The Andean Cross

Author : L. A. Clayton
Publisher : Justfiction Edition
ISBN 13 : 9783845445922
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (459 download)

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Download or read book The Andean Cross written by L. A. Clayton and published by Justfiction Edition. This book was released on 2012-02 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The discovery of a document in the Archive of the Indies, Seville, Spain in the late 1990s by Matthew Western launches him across the Atlantic world on a quest for its meaning. The search really began in the sixteenth century when an artifact is found by Dominican friars during the conquest of Peru. Then it was lost for almost five centuries in a shipwreck off the coast of Panama until Western runs across a description of the shipwreck in the archives in Spain. Western sets off to see if he can solve the riddle of why the Dominicans were sending this specific relic back to the King. He travels across Spain, England, the Caribbean, Panama, the U. S., and finally Peru in his search. He falls in love in this quest with a fellow academic traveler, an anthropologist named Clair Snowden who only gradually yields to Matthew. At the end Matthew and Clair rediscover what the Dominicans in the sixteenth century found, that followers of Jesus Christ may indeed have come to the Americas centuries before the Spaniards. What happened? That's for the second book in this trilogy!

Rethinking the Andes–Amazonia Divide

Author : Adrian J. Pearce
Publisher : UCL Press
ISBN 13 : 178735735X
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (873 download)

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Download or read book Rethinking the Andes–Amazonia Divide written by Adrian J. Pearce and published by UCL Press. This book was released on 2020-10-21 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nowhere on Earth is there an ecological transformation so swift and so extreme as between the snow-line of the high Andes and the tropical rainforest of Amazonia. The different disciplines that research the human past in South America have long tended to treat these two great subzones of the continent as self-contained enough to be taken independently of each other. Objections have repeatedly been raised, however, to warn against imagining too sharp a divide between the people and societies of the Andes and Amazonia, when there are also clear indications of significant connections and transitions between them. Rethinking the Andes–Amazonia Divide brings together archaeologists, linguists, geneticists, anthropologists, ethnohistorians and historians to explore both correlations and contrasts in how the various disciplines see the relationship between the Andes and Amazonia, from deepest prehistory up to the European colonial period. The volume emerges from an innovative programme of conferences and symposia conceived explicitly to foster awareness, discussion and co-operation across the divides between disciplines. Underway since 2008, this programme has already yielded major publications on the Andean past, including History and Language in the Andes (2011) and Archaeology and Language in the Andes (2012).

Indigenous Interfaces

Author : Jennifer Gómez Menjívar
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816539839
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Indigenous Interfaces written by Jennifer Gómez Menjívar and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cultural preservation, linguistic revitalization, intellectual heritage, and environmental sustainability became central to Indigenous movements in Mexico and Central America after 1992. While the emergence of these issues triggered important conversations, none to date have examined the role that new media has played in accomplishing their objectives. Indigenous Interfaces provides the first thorough examination of indigeneity at the interface of cyberspace. Correspondingly, it examines the impact of new media on the struggles for self-determination that Indigenous peoples undergo in Mexico and Central America. The volume’s contributors highlight the fresh approaches that Mesoamerica’s Indigenous peoples have given to new media—from YouTubing Maya rock music to hashtagging in Zapotec. Together, they argue that these cyberspatial activities both maintain tradition and ensure its continuity. Without considering the implications of new technologies, Indigenous Interfaces argues, twenty-first-century indigeneity in Mexico and Central America cannot be successfully documented, evaluated, and comprehended. Indigenous Interfaces rejects the myth that indigeneity and information technology are incompatible through its compelling analysis of the relationships between Indigenous peoples and new media. The volume illustrates how Indigenous peoples are selectively and strategically choosing to interface with cybertechnology, highlights Indigenous interpretations of new media, and brings to center Indigenous communities who are resetting modes of communication and redirecting the flow of information. It convincingly argues that interfacing with traditional technologies simultaneously with new media gives Indigenous peoples an edge on the claim to autonomous and sovereign ways of being Indigenous in the twenty-first century. Contributors Arturo Arias Debra A. Castillo Gloria Elizabeth Chacón Adam W. Coon Emiliana Cruz Tajëëw Díaz Robles Mauricio Espinoza Alicia Ivonne Estrada Jennifer Gómez Menjívar Sue P. Haglund Brook Danielle Lillehaugen Paul Joseph López Oro Rita M. Palacios Gabriela Spears-Rico Paul Worley

Colombia

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Colombia written by and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Inventing Indigenous Knowledge

Author : Lynn Swartley
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317794206
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (177 download)

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Download or read book Inventing Indigenous Knowledge written by Lynn Swartley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-24 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides a multi-sited and multivocalic investigation of the dynamic social, political and economic processes in the creation and implementation of an agricultural development project. The raised field rehabilitation project attempted to introduce a pre-Columbian agricultural method into the contemporary Lake Titicaca Basin.

The Stones of Tiahuanaco

Author : Stella Nair
Publisher : Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press
ISBN 13 : 1938770994
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (387 download)

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Download or read book The Stones of Tiahuanaco written by Stella Nair and published by Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press. This book was released on 2013-12-31 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world's most artful and skillful stone architecture is found at Tiahuanaco at the southern end of Lake Titicaca in Bolivia. The precision of the stone masonry rivals that of the Incas to the point that writers from Spanish chroniclers of the sixteenth century to twentieth-century authors have claimed that Tiahuanaco not only served as a model for Inca architecture and stone masonry, but that the Incas even imported stonemasons from the Titicaca Basin to construct their buildings. Experiments aimed at replicating the astounding feats of the Tiahuanaco stonecutters--perfectly planar surfaces, perfect exterior and interior right angles, and precision to within 1 mm--throw light on the stonemasons' skill and knowledge, especially of geometry and mathematics. Detailed analyses of building stones yield insights into the architecture of Tiahuanaco, including its appearance, rules of composition, canons, and production, filling a significant gap in the understanding of Tiahuanaco's material culture.

Archaeology of Wak'as

Author : Tamara L. Bray
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
ISBN 13 : 149201270X
Total Pages : 423 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Archaeology of Wak'as written by Tamara L. Bray and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2014-08-15 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this edited volume, Andean wak'as—idols, statues, sacred places, images, and oratories—play a central role in understanding Andean social philosophies, cosmologies, materialities, temporalities, and constructions of personhood. Top Andean scholars from a variety of disciplines cross regional, theoretical, and material boundaries in their chapters, offering innovative methods and theoretical frameworks for interpreting the cultural particulars of Andean ontologies and notions of the sacred. Wak'as were understood as agentive, nonhuman persons within many Andean communities and were fundamental to conceptions of place, alimentation, fertility, identity, and memory and the political construction of ecology and life cycles. The ethnohistoric record indicates that wak'as were thought to speak, hear, and communicate, both among themselves and with humans. In their capacity as nonhuman persons, they shared familial relations with members of the community, for instance, young women were wed to local wak'as made of stone and wak'as had sons and daughters who were identified as the mummified remains of the community's revered ancestors. Integrating linguistic, ethnohistoric, ethnographic, and archaeological data, The Archaeology of Wak'as advances our understanding of the nature and culture of wak'as and contributes to the larger theoretical discussions on the meaning and role of–"the sacred” in ancient contexts.

Architecture and Power in the Ancient Andes

Author : Jerry D. Moore
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521553636
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (536 download)

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Download or read book Architecture and Power in the Ancient Andes written by Jerry D. Moore and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-08-22 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An innovative 1996 discussion of architecture and its role in the culture of the ancient Andes.

1491 (Second Edition)

Author : Charles C. Mann
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307278182
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book 1491 (Second Edition) written by Charles C. Mann and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2006-10-10 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A groundbreaking work of science, history, and archaeology that radically alters our understanding of the Americas before the arrival of Columbus in 1492—from “a remarkably engaging writer” (The New York Times Book Review). Contrary to what so many Americans learn in school, the pre-Columbian Indians were not sparsely settled in a pristine wilderness; rather, there were huge numbers of Indians who actively molded and influenced the land around them. The astonishing Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan had running water and immaculately clean streets, and was larger than any contemporary European city. Mexican cultures created corn in a specialized breeding process that it has been called man’s first feat of genetic engineering. Indeed, Indians were not living lightly on the land but were landscaping and manipulating their world in ways that we are only now beginning to understand. Challenging and surprising, this a transformative new look at a rich and fascinating world we only thought we knew.

Andean Awakening

Author : Jorge Luis Delgado
Publisher : Council Oak Books
ISBN 13 : 9781571781932
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (819 download)

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Download or read book Andean Awakening written by Jorge Luis Delgado and published by Council Oak Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Andean Awakening' delves beneath the surface of the everyday tourist view of Peru to explore the mysteries of the Inca.

Andean Folk Knits

Author : Marcia Lewandowski
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9781579909536
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book Andean Folk Knits written by Marcia Lewandowski and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2006 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With these attractive ethnic patterns from the Andes, knitters not only expand their design repertoire, they literally knit a connection with other cultures. The fabulous selection of 25 projects includes vibrant bags and other accessories based on the rich traditions of Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador, and Peru. Knit fingerless mittens and a purse from Peru’s Ollantaytambo region. A wonderfully functional Argentinean felt bag fits around the waist and is perfect for holding money and other small belongings; a matching hat makes for an attractive ensemble. Or try making a chic and simple Chilean striped bag and scarf, or an adorable Bolivian purse in the shape of a llama. Every chapter offers interesting facts about the Andean people, history, and culture, too.

The Native Languages of South America

Author : Loretta O'Connor
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139867989
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (398 download)

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Download or read book The Native Languages of South America written by Loretta O'Connor and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-03-20 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In South America indigenous languages are extremely diverse. There are over one hundred language families in this region alone. Contributors from around the world explore the history and structure of these languages, combining insights from archaeology and genetics with innovative linguistic analysis. The book aims to uncover regional patterns and potential deeper genealogical relations between the languages. Based on a large-scale database of features from sixty languages, the book analyses major language families such as Tupian and Arawakan, as well as the Quechua/Aymara complex in the Andes, the Isthmo-Colombian region and the Andean foothills. It explores the effects of historical change in different grammatical systems and fills gaps in the World Atlas of Language Structures (WALS) database, where South American languages are underrepresented. An important resource for students and researchers interested in linguistics, anthropology and language evolution.

Ritual Encounters

Author : Michelle Wibbelsman
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252092872
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Ritual Encounters written by Michelle Wibbelsman and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines ritual practices and public festivals in the Otavalo and Cotacachi areas of northern Andean Ecuador's Imbabura province. Otavaleños are a unique group in that they maintain their traditional identity but also cultivate a cosmopolitanism through frequent international travel. Ritual Encountersexplores the moral, mythic, and modern crossroads at which Otavaleños stand, and how, at this junction, they come to define themselves as millennial people. Michelle Wibbelsman shows that Otavaleños are deeply engaged in transnational mobility and in the cultural transformations that have resulted from Otavalan participation in global markets, international consumer trends, and technological developments. Rituals have persisted among this ethnic community as important processes for symbolically capturing and critically assessing cultural changes in the face of modern influences. As religious expression, political commentary, transcendental communication, moral judgment, and transformative experience, Otavalan rituals constitute enduring practices that affirm ethnic identities, challenge dominant narratives, and take issue with power inequalities behind hegemony. Ritual Encounters thus offers an appreciation of the modern and mythic community as a single and emergent condition.

Andean Archaeology I

Author : William H. Isbell
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461506395
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (615 download)

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Download or read book Andean Archaeology I written by William H. Isbell and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Study of the origin and development of civilization is of unequaled importance for understanding the cultural processes that create human societies. Is cultural evolution directional and regular across human societies and history, or is it opportunistic and capricious? Do apparent regularities come from the way inves tigators construct and manage knowledge, or are they the result of real constraints on and variations in the actual processes? Can such questions even be answered? We believe so, but not easily. By comparing evolutionary sequences from different world civilizations scholars can judge degrees of similarity and difference and then attempt explanation. Of course, we must be careful to assess the influence that societies of the ancient world had on one another (the issue of pristine versus non-pristine cultural devel opment: see discussion in Fried 1967; Price 1978). The Central Andes were the locus of the only societies to achieve pristine civilization in the southern hemi sphere and only in the Central Andes did non-literate (non-written language) civ ilization develop. It seems clear that Central Andean civilization was independent on any graph of archaic culture change. Scholars have often expressed appreciation of the research opportunities offered by the Central Andes as a testing ground for the study of cultural evolu tion (see, e. g. , Carneiro 1970; Ford and Willey 1949: 5; Kosok 1965: 1-14; Lanning 1967: 2-5).

The Andean World

Author : Linda J. Seligmann
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317220781
Total Pages : 692 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)

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Download or read book The Andean World written by Linda J. Seligmann and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-11-08 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Potency of the Common

Author : Gert Melville
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110457466
Total Pages : 411 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Potency of the Common written by Gert Melville and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2016-09-26 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The central question of the book is as follows: To what extent does the community present a challenge in the life of the individual? Well-known international Philosophers, historians, anthropologists, political scientists, theologians and sociologists attempted to find explications by intercultural comparison.