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 persistance of 'Señorios Naturales', 1400 to European conquest
8. Archaeology of the Caribbean region
9. Pre-history 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.
