People of the Volcano: Andean
Counterpoint in the Colca Valley of Peru
Noble David Cook with Alexandra Parma Cook,
Duke University Press, 2007
DETAILED ethnohistory of everyday life in the Colca Valley, a rugged Andean landscape near Arequipa in Peru’s southern highlands, that will be of interest mainly to pre-Columbian and colonial historians and anthropologists. The book draws on rich documentary evidence to explore social and cultural transformations among the first three generations of Indians and Spaniards following the Conquest. Well researched and beautifully written, it reflects the principal author’s intimate knowledge of this region and its past. – GO’T
