Once upon a time, young scholars eager to work in the Andes learned their trade at the knees of the elders in the guild, who told stories of archives filled with uncatalogued packets of crumbling papers in which, like scholarly counterparts of Indiana Jones, they searched for documentary treasures. But even the most intrepid scholar-adventurer should be grateful to the editors and authors who, a decade ago, undertook to make it easier to work in the field of Andean studies. The objective of the project was to produce a guide to the major documentary sources in the field, focusing particularly on sources concerning indigenous cultures. The first volume of the Guide to Documentary Sources for Andean Studies consists of a series of essays on both the well-known categories of Andean sources, such as the chronicles, censuses, and visitas that have become standard resources for Andeanists, and lesser-known archival and published...
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