This is a book that has been a long time in the making — 33 years, in fact. As the authors point out in their preface, they first began to work on the history of the Colca Valley in southern Peru in 1974 at the invitation of Franklin Pease, a historian who was then director of the Museo Nacional de Historia. In the Museo, Pease had found visitas, or detailed counts of the native population of the valley, dating from the last decade of the sixteenth century, and he hoped to publish them as well as encourage research on the region. The first volume of the visitas, entitled Collaguas I, appeared in 1977, and until his death in 1999, Dr. Pease continued his efforts to publish the records of the region of Collaguas, two more volumes of which have appeared to date under the editorship of David Robinson...

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