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978088402185828 Hosler, Lechtman, Holm: Axe-monies and their Relatives. (Ecuador, Andes) 
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  • Axe-monies and their Relatives. ca. 22x28 cm. (Ecuador, Andes)
  • Dorothy Hosler, Heather Lechtman, Olaf Holm
  • 103 pages, 50 figures. 1990

9781560985129 Arriaza: Beyond Death. The Chinchorro Mummies of Ancient Chile. Cloth 
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  • Beyond Death. The Chinchorro Mummies of Ancient Chile. Cloth
  • by Bernardo T. Arriaza
  • 176 pages, 54 text figures, 21 colour plates, 6 tables. 1995. Comprehensive study of 282 examples permits classification, description, and interpretation of mummification techniques and of details of health, diet, technology, settlement, and society between 5000 and 1700 BC. Argues that mummification was invented in Arica-Camerones region to insure continuity of life in the context of environmental uncertainty

9780883121856 Borman: The Cofan Art of Hammock Weaving (Colombia) 
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  • Cofan Art of Hammock Weaving (Colombia)
  • M.B. Borman
  • 28 pages, with many line illustrations, text in both Spanish and English language

Culture Shock! Bolivia. A Guide to Customs and Etiquette. Paperback 
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  • Culture Shock! Bolivia. A Guide to Customs and Etiquette. Paperback
  • Cramer: Culture Shock!
  • 244 pages, with illustrations, 1 map, index. 1996

978157766029318 15Weismantel: Food, Gender, and Poverty in the Ecuadorian Andes 
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  • Food, Gender, and Poverty in the Ecuadorian Andes
  • Mary J. Weismantel
  • 233 pages, illustrated, map. We are what we eat: our food defines us as individual women and men, as families and communities, and as members of our race, our class, and our nation.

978086054569920 BAR Report 442 Dillehay: La Frontera del Estado Inca. Proceedings of the 45th International Congress of Americanists, Bogota, Colombia 1985. A4 
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  • Frontera del Estado Inca. Proceedings of 45th International Congress of Americanists, Bogota, Colombia 1985. A4
  • edited by Tom D. Dillehay and Patricia Netherly
  • 274 pages, numerous illustrations. 1988. BAR Report 442

9780826313966 Rausch: The Llanos Frontier in Colombian History, 1830-1930. Hardcover 
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  • Llanos Frontier in Colombian History, 1830-1930. Hardcover
  • Jane M. Rausch
  • xii, 401 pages, with 8 maps, 11 tables, glossary, bibliography, index. 1993

Paris: Long Shadows - Truth, Lies and History. Hardback 
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  • Long Shadows - Truth, Lies and History. Hardback
  • Erna Paris
  • 495 pages. 2001. Building on conversations with people who have lived that history or who are living with its consequences, this book analyzes examples, from the legacy of American slavery to the "disappeared" in Argentina and Chile, to investigate the myths nations invent to get past the bad times in history.

978088133143118 Bastien: Mountain of the Condor. Metaphor and Ritual in an Andean Ayllu. Paperback 
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  • Mountain of the Condor. Metaphor and Ritual in an Andean Ayllu. Paperback
    Joseph W. Bastien
  • 227 pages, illustrated. 1978. With a wonderful blend of personal narrative, rich description, and theoretical presentation, the author sheds new light on the previously misinterpreted Bolivian Indians and their ancient Andean religion, rich in symbolism and ritual

9780195089851 Quechua: Nuckolls: Sounds Like Life. Sound-symbolic Grammar, Performance, and Cognition in Pastaza Quechua. Cloth 
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  • Quechua: Sounds Like Life. Sound-symbolic Grammar, Performance, and Cognition in Pastaza Quechua. Cloth
  • by Janis B. Nuckolls
  • 312 pages, 40 linecuts, 1 halftone, 1 map. 1996. A study of the occurrence of sound-symbolic words - words that bear resemblance to phenomena they attempt to describe - in an Ecuadorian dialect of Quechua, a major South American language. The author explores how native speakers describe everyday experiences

9780521734172 / Van Cott: Radical Democracy in the Andes. Paperback 
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  • Radical Democracy in the Andes. Paperback
  • by Donna Lee Van Cott. xv, 261 pages. 2008

978088312173312 Merrifield: South American Kinship: Eight Kinship Systems from Brazil and Colombia. Paperback 
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  • South American Kinship: Eight Kinship Systems from Brazil and Colombia. Paperback
  • edited William Merrifield
  • v, 122 pages. 1985

9780822333708 Goldstein: Spectacular City: Violence and Performance in Urban Bolivia. Paperback 
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  • Spectacular City: Violence and Performance in Urban Bolivia. Paperback
  • by Daniel M. Goldstein
  • 296 pages, 23 photos, 1 map. 2004