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9780520276109 | Univ of California Pr, August 10, 2013, cover price $70.00

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9780520276116 | 1 edition (Univ of California Pr, August 3, 2013), cover price $29.95

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Product Description: Far from the mainstream of society, the pastoral community of Chillihuani in the high Peruvian Andes rears children who are well-adjusted, creative, and curious. They exhibit superior social and cognitive skills and maintain an attitude of respect for all life as they progress smoothly from childhood to adulthood without a troubled adolescence...read more

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9780292709829 | Univ of Texas Pr, March 1, 2006, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: Far from the mainstream of society, the pastoral community of Chillihuani in the high Peruvian Andes rears children who are well-adjusted, creative, and curious.

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9780292712980 | Univ of Texas Pr, March 1, 2006, cover price $22.95

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This second edition of Catherine J. Allen's distinctive ethnography of the Quechua-speaking people of the Andes brings their story into the present. She has added an extensive afterword based on her visits to Sonqo in 1995 and 2000 and has updated and revised parts of the original text. The book focuses on the very real problem of cultural continuity in a changing world, and Allen finds that the hold life has in 2002 is not the same as it was in 1985. (view table of contents)

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9780874742565 | Smithsonian Inst Pr, November 1, 1988, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: This second edition of Catherine J.

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9781588340320 | 2 sub edition (Smithsonian Inst Pr, November 1, 2002), cover price $21.95

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Product Description: "In the remoteness of their mountain retreat, the herders of Chillihuani, Peru, recognize that respect for others is the central and most significant element of all thought and action," observes Inge Bolin. "Without respect, no society, no civilization, can flourish for long...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780292708662 | Univ of Texas Pr, October 1, 1998, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: In the remoteness of their mountain retreat, the herders of Chillihuani, Peru, recognize that respect for others is the central and most significant element of all thought and action, observes Inge Bolin.

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9780292708679 | Univ of Texas Pr, November 1, 1998, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: "In the remoteness of their mountain retreat, the herders of Chillihuani, Peru, recognize that respect for others is the central and most significant element of all thought and action," observes Inge Bolin.

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Product Description: This book provides the reader with a story that has been many years in the making. It is the story of the Runa, a Quichua-speaking Indian population in Ecuador's Amazon region. It offers a window onto another culture, an illustration of the relationship between ethnicity and culture, and a story of the mobilization of an indigenous group...read more

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9780205198214 | Prentice Hall, June 1, 1998, cover price $51.00 | About this edition: This book provides the reader with a story that has been many years in the making.

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Discusses the spiritual and personal transformation experience by the author on his journey to the Peruvian village of Ollantaytambo, an ancient place with strong links to Incan society

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9780930031282 | Chelsea Green Pub Co, May 1, 1990, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Discusses the spiritual and personal transformation experience by the author on his journey to the Peruvian village of Ollantaytambo, an ancient place with strong links to Incan society

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Product Description: Perhaps the best way to sharpen one's power's of observation is to be a stranger in a strange land. Julia Meyerson was one such stranger during a year in the village of 'Tambo, Peru, where her husband was conducting anthropological fieldwork...read more

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9780292780774 | Univ of Texas Pr, March 1, 1990, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Perhaps the best way to sharpen one's power's of observation is to be a stranger in a strange land.

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9780292780781 | Univ of Texas Pr, March 1, 1990, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Perhaps the best way to sharpen one's power's of observation is to be a stranger in a strange land.

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Product Description: This second edition of Catherine J. Allen's distinctive ethnography of the Quechua-speaking people of the Andes brings their story into the present. She has added an extensive afterword based on her visits to Sonqo in 1995 and 2000 and has updated and revised parts of the original text...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780874742558 | Smithsonian Inst Pr, November 1, 1988, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: This second edition of Catherine J.

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Product Description: Domination and Cultural Resistance examines the social life of the Yura, a Quechua-speaking Andean ethnic group of central Bolivia, and focuses especially on their indigenous authorities, the kuraqkuna or elders. Combining ethnohistorical research with contemporary fieldwork, Roger Neil Rasnake traces the evolution of leadership roles within the changing composition of the native Andean social groupings, the ayllus—from the consolidation of pre-Hispanic Aymara polities, through the pressures of the Spanish colonial regime and the increasing fragmentation of the republican era, to the present...read more

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9780822308096 | Duke Univ Pr, August 1, 1988, cover price $74.95 | About this edition: Domination and Cultural Resistance examines the social life of the Yura, a Quechua-speaking Andean ethnic group of central Bolivia, and focuses especially on their indigenous authorities, the kuraqkuna or elders.

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Product Description: Book by Stein, William W.

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9780837184067 | Greenwood Pub Group, June 1, 1976, cover price $49.75 | About this edition: Book by Stein, William W.

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