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Product Description: 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...read more

Product Description: Emphasizing the reciprocal influences of European and Andean peoples, the contributors to this volume examine the formation of a colonial society in sixteenth-century South America. Together these eight outstanding essays by specialists in anthropology, history, art history, and literary studies are a model interdisciplinary forum in Andean and colonial studies...read more

Product Description: Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca’s account of the doomed Narváez expedition to the vast unexplored lands beyond the northern frontier of New Spain has long been heralded as the quintessential tale of the European confronting the wilderness of North America and its native inhabitants for the first time...read more

Product Description: Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca’s account of the doomed Narváez expedition to the vast unexplored lands beyond the northern frontier of New Spain has long been heralded as the quintessential tale of the European confronting the wilderness of North America and its native inhabitants for the first time...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Published on the occasion of the opening of the full digital edition of the autograph manuscript of Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala's Nueva coronica y buen gobierno (1615) on the website of the Royal Library, Copenhagen (www.kb.dk/elib/mss/poma/), this new book by one of the world's most prominent Guaman Poma scholars contains a survey, in English and Spanish, of recent research...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala’s handwritten illustrated book, Nueva corónica y buen gobierno, from 1615—honored by UNESCO as a “Memory of the World” item—rewrote Andean history in accordance with his goals of reforming Spanish colonial rule in Peru...read more