... of Revolution. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. doi 10.1215/00141801-2010-060 Book Reviews 777 Performing Kinship: Narrative, Gender, and the Intimacies of Power in the Andes. By Krista E. Van Vleet. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2008. xiv + 273...

...Robert C. Schwaller Histories of Race and Racism: The Andes and Mesoamerica from Colonial Times to the Present . Edited by Gotkowitz Laura . ( Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2011 . vii + 400 pp., introduction, bibliography, index . $25.95 paper.) Copyright 2013...

...Sarahh Scher Gods of the Andes: An Early Jesuit Account of Inca Religion and Andean Christianity . By Hyland Sabine . ( University Park : Pennsylvania State University Press , 2011 . xi + 131 pp., preface, acknowledgments, map, appendix, glossary, works cited, index . $24.95 paper...

...Noble David Cook Beyond the Lettered City: Indigenous Literacies in the Andes . By Rappaport Joanne and Cummins Tom . ( Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2012 . xvi + 350 pp., acknowledgments, introduction, illustrations, maps, bibliography, index . $94.95 cloth, $24.95...

...Thomas Lyle Whigham In Search of an Inca: Identity and Utopia in the Andes . By Galindo Alberto Flores . Edited and translated by Aguirre Carlos , Walker Charles F. , and Hiatt Willie . ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2010 . xxix + 270 pp., editor's...

...Jessica Joyce Christie Lightning in the Andes and Mesoamerica: Pre-Columbian, Colonial, and Contemporary Perspectives . By Staller John E. and Stross Brian . ( New York : Oxford University Press , 2013 . ix + 259 pp., preface, introduction, illustrations, references, index...

...Frank Salomon Vertical Empire: The General Resettlement of Indians in the Colonial Andes . By Mumford Jeremy Ravi . ( Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2012 . xii + 293 pp., acknowledgments, introduction, appendix, notes, glossary, bibliography, index . $89.95 cloth, $24.95...

...” in colonial scientific histories. There are few studies of women miners in the colonial Andes, perhaps because the industry is now dominated by a masculine image said to explain colonial patriarchy, even though historians have revealed the “methodological and analytical inconsistencies...

... played an useful role in that achievement. DOI 10.1215/00141801-2008-054 Book Reviews 223 Blacks, Indians, and Spaniards in the Eastern Andes: Reclaiming the For- gotten in Colonial Mizque, 1550–1782. By Lolita Gutiérrez Brockington. (Lincoln...

...? And what were the consequences for record keeping in the colonial Andes of the encounter between native cord keepers and the Spanish record keepers, with their numeral signs inscribed on parchment or paper? These are the questions that I explore in this paper. While we do not have explicit, first-hand...

..., index. $22.95 paper.) Invaders as Ancestors: On the Intercultural Making and Unmaking of Spanish Colonialism in the Andes. By Peter Gose. (Toronto, ON: Univer- sity of Toronto Press, 2008. xviii + 380 pp., illustrations, acknowledgments, introduction, notes, bibliography, index. $35.00...

...Kelly S. McDonough Indigenous Intellectuals: Knowledge, Power, and Colonial Culture in Mexico and the Andes . Edited by Ramos Gabriela and Yannakakis Yanna . ( Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2014 . vii + 323 pp., foreword, introduction, maps, photographs, bibliography, index...

...Matthew A. Redinger Death and Conversion in the Andes: Lima and Cuzco, 1532–1670 . By Ramos Gabriela . ( Notre Dame, IN : University of Notre Dame Press , 2010 . xi + 356 pp., acknowledgments, introduction, maps, appendixes, notes, bibliography, index . $39.00 paper.) Copyright...

..., illustrations, glossary, bibliography, index. $31.00 paper.) Paul Trawick, University of Kentucky This remarkable book does not easily invite comparison, but it will be instantly familiar to anyone who works in the Andes: a collection of papers by a Peruvian anthropologist whose work has virtually defined...

... tell about travel from the Pantanal west to the Inca frontier to raid or trade for metals and to free captives taken on previous trips. Those who have suggested that the “Land-without-Evil” explains the dispersal of Guaraní speakers to the foothills and lowlands just east of the Andes adhere...

...David Cahill American Society for Ethnohistory 2007 Intersections: Economy, Political Culture, and Gendered Lives in the Andes David Cahill, University of New South Wales Mas allá de la dominación: Estudios de historia peruana, siglos XVI–XX. Edited by Paulo Drinot and Leo...

...Sergio Serulnikov The article explores the causes, ideological underpinnings, and political repercussions of land battles among the Pocoata, an ethnic group in the southern Andes, during the eighteenth century. These disputes afford us a glimpse into the competing native concepts of land tenure...

...Alejandro Patiño-Contreras Abstract This article addresses the roles of fantastic primeval beings in foundational aboriginal narratives collected in writing by Spanish friars during campaigns of conversion in the Eastern Andes of Colombia during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries CE...

...Alcira Dueñas Abstract Transforming the religious outlook of Indigenous populations in the colonial Andes became an imperial undertaking that required more than an external change. In the Andes, the missionary enterprise of the Jesuits created a wholesale design of mechanisms for an effective...