Introduction Frank Salomon and Stuart Schwartz; 1. Testimonies: the making
and reading of native South American historical sources; 2. Ethnography in
South America: the first two hundred years; 3. The earliest South American
lifeways; 4: The maritime, highland, forest dynamic and the origins of
complex culture; 5. The evolution of Andean diversity: regional formations,
500 BCE-600 CE; 6. Andean urbanism and statecraft, 550-1450 CE; 7.
Chiefdoms: the prevalence and persistence of 'Señorios Naturales', 1400 to
European conquest; 8. Archaeology of the Caribbean region; 9. Prehistory of
the Southern Cone; 10. The fourfold domain: Inka power and its social
foundations; 11. The crises and transformations of invaded societies: the
Caribbean, 1492-1580; 12. The crises and transformations of invaded
societies, 1500-1580: Andean area; 13. The crises and transformations of
invaded societies: coastal Brazil in the sixteenth century; 14. The crises
and transformations of invaded societies in the La Plata Basin (1535-1650);
15. The colonial condition in the Quechua-Aymara heartland, 1570-1780; 16.
Warfare, reorganization, and readaptation at the margins of Spanish rule:
the southern margin (1573-1882); 17. The western margins of Amazonia from
the early sixteenth to the early nineteenth century; 18. Warfare,
reorganization, and readaptation at the margins of Spanish rule: the Chaco
and Paraguay (1573-1882); 19. Destruction, resistance and transformation:
southern, coastal and northern Brazil, 1580-1890; 20. Native peoples
confront colonial regimes in northeastern South America, c. 1500-1900; 21.
New peoples and new kinds of people: adaptation, readjustment, and
ethnogenesis in South American indigenous societies (Colonial Era); 22. The
'Republic of Indians' in revolt (c. 1680-c. 1790); 23. Andean highland
peasants and the trials of nation-making during the nineteenth century; 24.
Indigenous peoples and the rise of independent nation-states in lowland
South America; 25. Andean people in the twentieth century; 26. Lowland
peoples of the twentieth century.
