Varieties of Andean Reality

In spite of increasingly difficult research conditions in much of the heartland of Andean South America, a number of seminal works on the area have appeared since the early 1980s. Some of these are based on earlier research, when investigation was easier and perhaps safer, but some are based on more recent field experience. Despite the disparate nature of the six monographs reviewed here, there are two common links that bind: one is the geographical structure of the Andean cordillera, the other is the shared historical experience of the native peoples and the outsiders who conquered them in the sixteenth century. The expertise of the authors varies as widely as the Andean landscape: the first volume reviewed is primarily a collection prepared by archaeologists, the second is by an anthropologist, the third by a historian interested in social and economic themes, the fourth by a student of educational and religious 206

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