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The main purpose of this book is to evaluate the "state of the art" of the research on ancient maritime communities along the South American Pacific coastline. Using multidisciplinary approaches, this volume spans the earliest occupation in South America to the early years of the Spanish occupation.
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How do high mountain ranges form on the face of the Earth? This question has intrigued some of the greatest philosophers and scientists, going back as far as the ancient Greeks. Devil in the Mountain is the story of one scientist, author Simon Lamb, and his quest for the key to this great geological mystery. Lamb and a small team of geologists have spent much of the last decade exploring the rugged Bolivian Andes, the second highest mountain range on Earth--a region rocked by earthquakes and violent volcanic eruptions. The author's account is both travelogue and detective story, describing how he and his colleagues have pursued a trail of clues in the mountains, hidden beneath the rocky landscape. Here, the local silver miners strive to appease the spirit they call Tio-the devil in the mountain. Traveling through Bolivia's back roads, the team has to cope with the extremes of the environment, and survive in a country on the verge of civil war. But the backdrop to all these adventures is the bigger story of the Earth and how geologists have gone about uncovering its secrets. We follow the tracks of the dinosaurs, who never saw the Andes but left their mark on the shores of a vast inland sea that covered this part of South America more than sixty-five million years ago, long before the mountains existed. And we learn how to find long lost rivers that once flowed through the landscape, how continents are twisted and torn apart, and where volcanoes come from. By the end of their journey, Lamb and his team turn up extraordinary evidence pointing not only to the fundamental instability of the Earth's surface, but also to unexpected and profound links in the workings of our planet.
Geology --- Geology - General --- Earth & Environmental Sciences --- Andes. --- Andean Mountain Range --- Andean Mountains --- Andean Range --- Andes Mountain Range --- Andes Mountain Ranges --- Andes Mountains --- Andes Range --- Andes Ranges --- Anti (Mountains) --- Antis (Mountains) --- Cordillera de los Andes --- Los Andes --- The Andes
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Andes Region --- Andes Region. --- Economic conditions --- Politics and government
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Meteorology --- Aerology --- Atmospheric science --- Andes. --- Andes Region --- Acuerdo de Cartagena countries --- Andean countries --- Andean region --- Andean Mountain Range --- Andean Mountains --- Andean Range --- Andes Mountain Range --- Andes Mountain Ranges --- Andes Mountains --- Andes Range --- Andes Ranges --- Anti (Mountains) --- Antis (Mountains) --- Cordillera de los Andes --- Los Andes --- The Andes --- History. --- Economic conditions. --- Social conditions. --- Civilization.
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Portraits in the Andes examines indigenous and mestizo self-representation through the medium of photography from the early to mid twentieth century. As Jorge Coronado reveals, these images offer a powerful counterpoint to the often-slanted, predominant view of indigenismo produced by the intellectual elite. Photography offered an inexpensive and readily available technology for producing portraits and other images that allowed lower- and middle-class racialized subjects to create their own distinct rhetoric and vision of their culture. The powerful identity-marking vehicle that photography provided to the masses has been overlooked in much of Latin American cultural studies--which have focused primarily on the elite's visual arts. Coronado's study offers close readings of Andean photographic archives from the early- to mid-twentieth century, to show the development of a consumer culture and the agency of marginalized groups in creating a visual document of their personal interpretations of modernity.
Portrait photography --- Photography --- Portraiture --- History. --- Portraits --- Andes --- Andean Mountain Range --- Andean Mountains --- Andean Range --- Andes Mountain Range --- Andes Mountain Ranges --- Andes Mountains --- Andes Range --- Andes Ranges --- Anti (Mountains) --- Antis (Mountains) --- Cordillera de los Andes --- Los Andes --- The Andes --- History --- E-books --- 1900-1999
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Presenting studies in Andean archaeology and iconography by leading specialists in the field, this volume tackles the question of how researchers can come to understand the intangible, intellectual worlds of ancient peoples. It is a fascinating ontological journey through Andean cultures from the fourth millennium BC to the sixteenth century.
Indians of South America --- Antiquities. --- History. --- Andes --- American aborigines --- American Indians --- Indigenous peoples --- Ethnology --- Andean Mountain Range --- Andean Mountains --- Andean Range --- Andes Mountain Range --- Andes Mountain Ranges --- Andes Mountains --- Andes Range --- Andes Ranges --- Anti (Mountains) --- Antis (Mountains) --- Cordillera de los Andes --- Los Andes --- The Andes
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Indians of South America --- Huacas. --- Antiquities. --- Peru --- Andes --- American aborigines --- American Indians --- Indigenous peoples --- Guacas --- Wakas --- Sacred space --- Ethnology --- Antiquities --- Andean Mountain Range --- Andean Mountains --- Andean Range --- Andes Mountain Range --- Andes Mountain Ranges --- Andes Mountains --- Andes Range --- Andes Ranges --- Anti (Mountains) --- Antis (Mountains) --- Cordillera de los Andes --- Los Andes --- The Andes
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Geology, Structural. --- Andes. --- Geotectonics --- Structural geology --- Tectonics (Geology) --- Physical geology --- Andean Mountain Range --- Andean Mountains --- Andean Range --- Andes Mountain Range --- Andes Mountain Ranges --- Andes Mountains --- Andes Range --- Andes Ranges --- Anti (Mountains) --- Antis (Mountains) --- Cordillera de los Andes --- Los Andes --- The Andes
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Sacrifice and Regeneration focuses on the extraordinary success of Seventh-day Adventism in the Andean plateau at the beginning of the twentieth century and sheds light on the historical trajectories of Protestantism in Latin America.
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Indians of South America --- Antiquities --- Congresses. --- Indiens d'Amérique --- Congresses --- Antiquités --- Congrès --- Andes --- Andes -- Antiquities -- Congresses. --- Indians of South America -- Andes -- Antiquities -- Congresses. --- Andean Mountain Range --- Andean Mountains --- Andean Range --- Andes Mountain Range --- Andes Mountain Ranges --- Andes Mountains --- Andes Range --- Andes Ranges --- Anti (Mountains) --- Antis (Mountains) --- Cordillera de los Andes --- Los Andes --- The Andes --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General. --- American aborigines --- American Indians --- Indigenous peoples --- Ethnology
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