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Ethnicity, Markets, and Migration in the Andes: At the Crossroads of History and Anthropology. Edited by BROOKE LARSON, OLIVIA HARRIS, and ENRIQUE TANDETER. Durham: Duke University Press, 1995. Photographs. Illustrations. Maps. Tables. Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. 428 pp. Cloth, $57.50. Paper, $18.95.
The 11 substantive essays in this volume address the general theme of indigenous participation in the market economy from initial contact with Spaniards in the 1530s to the twentieth century. Its geographical focus is decidedly on the southern Andes (from Cuzco to southern Bolivia), although Susan E. Ramirez contributes a chapter on exchange and markets in northern Peru and Ecuador. Chronologically, it clearly concentrates on the colonial period-particularly on the sixteenth century (with chapters by John V Murra, Steve J. Stern, Ramirez, and Carlos Sempat Assadourian) and the eighteenth century (Enrique Tandeter et al., Brooke Larson, and Rosario Leon).
The late Thierry Saignes provides the only piece on the seventeenth century, in the form of a broad discussion of indigenous...