ABSTRACT:
The following chapters comprise this book with the unifying thread that of the convergence of nature & culture:
1. Reflections and Trajectories (i.e. reflexive account)
2. Andean Definition and the Meaning of Lo Andino
3. Deforestation and Reforestation of the Central Andean
Highlands
4. Malaria and Settlement Retrogression in Mizque, Bolivia
5. The Andes as a Dairyless Civilization: Llamas and
Alpacas as Unmilked Animals
6. Epilepsy, Magic and the Tapir in Andean America
7. Valleys of Mystery on the Peruvian Jungle Margin and the
Inca Coca Connection
8. Guayaquil as Rat City
9. Carl Sauer and the Andean Nexus in New World Crop
Diversity
10.Conclusion