Se presentan aquí todas las referencias etnohistóricas más tempranas halladas sobre la localidad de Chavín de Huántar y sus vestigios arqueológicos, con la finalidad de facilitar su consulta conjunta por los arqueólogos y demás interesados en este espectacular centro ceremonial del Formativo Medio y Tardío andino. Antecede a la transcripción de los textos una introducción con algunas observaciones e identificaciones tentativas a propósito de estos textos.

From the information of Gonzáles Holguín’s classic colonial Quechua dictionary [1608] and from the perspective of ethnohistory and modern anthropology of social Inka organization I study here the significance of a Quechua word which is the key in the comprehension of the system of royal titles of ancestors of the Inka kings. I also made a suggestion about the connected term of yupana, usually attributed to tridimensional tablets of game in wood or stone frecuently collected in archaeological Andean museums.

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This book review puts in relationship international development of anthropological history with correspondent studies in the Andean area, presenting a few chronological and theoretical points for a historic and theoretical remarks for a history of this field of Andean studies.

This essay puts toghether and discusses some early historical evidence about Andean ‘illegitimate’ kurakas from the origins of colonial system to c. 1615. They were appointed to their posts by colonial authorities and the most uncapable in their tasks would cause many disturbances in social indigenous life in colonial times. The main concern is to improve the historical basis for analysis of somewhat confussing archival evidence derivated of conflicts between Andean central Highlands kurakas in administrative and ‘idolatry’ colonial trials.

This is a microhistorical study of a documental fragment about a case of amancebamiento in a mid-colonial town in coastal Central Peru. The main concern is to retrieve from judicial testimonies the many dimensions of colonial experience in the social and inter-personal relationships between the protagonists. We follow the case in a form of ‘open’ writing to show the way of principal deductions and the basis and limits of the interpretation offered here.

This study focused in an specific incident in Francisco Chilche’s life, registered by chronicler Inca Garcilaso de la Vega. In it, Chilche offended seriously to the Inka colonial nobilty at the Corpus Christi festivities in the main plaza of the city. Here it is offered an interpretation of the incident as an attempt of the kuraka to revert by the mid 1550´s his declination in prestige and social status in colonial city. I used as theoretical tools some of the methodological procedures associated to anthropological history.

A new lecture of a fundamental book of the author, Tristes Tropiques (1955) will be our guideline to look on some premises of his method and thought. The aim is to remark its trascendence to human sciences and general social theory, and to make clear the author’s constant consciousness about the particular historic moment of a singular social or etnographic observation. Also to mention briefly some of his thoughts and points of view about cultural and historical transformation —later developed by himself— that pointed beyond of the circunscription of structuralist procedures to strict synchronistic social situations. Thus structuralism is now open to the study of structural transformation, an aspect studied by later scholars on the basis of part of Levi Strauss’s approaches.

"this paper exposes a proposition to rhe long di scusscd prohlcrn of culture that scck ro combine -rcspccting its more or lcss panicular sphcres ofaction- the diversc fields concomed in human perccption, categorizarion and cognition of natural and social world. It is bascd in obscrvarion and rciiccrion about cultural rransforrnation and chauge of conceptual and preconceprual schcrncs in past and ruodcrn Andean societies, compararion -still preliminar- wuh paralcl aspcCls of Amazon ian socierics and rcllect ion aboui rhc rnodcls and dcfinirions proposcd by rnai n schools of anrhropological rhought, conrributions of psychology and later dcvelopmen ts in rheorerical (usioll bcrwccn anthropological and historical poinrs of view, Sorne aspccts srudicd hy dcpth psicology are considered in rhc gmund (Ir rhis phacnomcna, and also more conremporary devcloprnents in tusion of anrhropological and h...

I attempt here a revision about some methodological problems and research strategies with reference to some of my recent work (2010, 2009a y 2009b, 2008) in intertwined fields of ethnohistory, social history and microhistory. The general chosen procedure to facing challenging and complex documentation, was to use simultaneously various methodologies provided by modern historiography and anthropology. So, we use for example the so-called thick description (Geertz) and the ethnography of history (Sahlins) —with few o almost no use in Andean studies tradition— along with the more «normal» hermeneutic documental procedures and also the indiciary deduction of the microhistory of C. Ginzburg. The main proposal is that adequately tempered combination of these methodologies will permite us to improve the comprehensive analysis of arduous analytical problems posed by the so called indigenou...

I do here a revision of main theoretical orientations employed in study and interpretation of Andean prehispanic art. It is worth to be noted that this theme conceived in proper terms includes aspects such the architectural planning and design, which I would study in a forthcoming communication. As a preliminary part of the application of an ethnological study of the theme, I noted in this anterior article that these representations reflect and are constructed from the cosmological concepts of peoples an individuals that have made them. So, I examine the ethnological earlier treatments of this issue and some aspects and consecuences of the apliccation of a proposed conceptualization of culture (Arana Bustamante 2011) to this broad theme. but I do not advance a formulation of these broad cosmological principles in this ocassion, for reasons of order of exposition and the limited lenght of...

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It is attempted in this study to precise a preliminary set of concepts for an analysis of acquisition of historical sense by traditional societies of Andean and Amazonian areas in modern context and with reference to the school. The usual variety in the interpretation of facts by these societies is presented in its cultural context with a preliminary treatment of historicities and mythistory in these areas. In a first cross-cultural analysis of this way, it is made a somere comparation with some historicities of modern Peruvian society. It is also attempted an analytic differentiation of these historicities with the historiographical thought and historical conscience properly conceived. At the end, there are some reflections about a future construction of a historical narrative of this traditional societies with consideration of the somewhere elusive factors of perspective and transdisci...

This study focus in some basic aspects in Andean studies to precise the nature of Qhapaq ayllu-the royal caste or nobility properly said of precolonial Inka-. From an ethnohistorian point of view, I precise here some related concepts as groups of filiation in Andean parenthood and kinship, the ayllu, and the ‘houses’ and royal houses. e theme is treated in somewhat theoretical way for conceptual aclaration and expanded study of colonial transformation of both social institution and social concept of Qhapaq aylluas royal house. The final stage of these institutions already mentioned were the “noble houses” of XVIIIth century documents. This study has the aim to clear and expand the posibilities of interpretation of huge material in existence.

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This is the comunication of the preliminary findings of a research about the permanence of Charles Darwin in Perú. Making use of the now disposables pertinent sources about the naturalist published by Internet proyects, I try to offer an analysis of impressions and activities of Charles Darwin during his limited permanence in our country.

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This article, first of two projected about Darwin in Brazil, starts the examination of the making of Charles Darwin as social —and sociological— observer through examination of his first contact with South American social realities in San Salvador de Bahia, Brazil. It can be said that this process, not much studied in Darwinian research, begun in Brazil, notwithstanding the more or less brief residence of the British naturalist in this country (four months and three days between February and July, 1832). Brazilian historiography has not researched Darwin’s presence in this country because his plain opinions against the slavery system. We used the Beagles’s Diary (Darwin [1831-1836]), as principal historical source in this aspect of our Darwin research.

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This book review puts in relationship international development of anthropological history with correspondent studies in the Andean area, presenting a few chronological and theoretical points for a historic and theoretical remarks for a history of this field of Andean studies.