Brooke Larson is Associate Professor of History and Director of the Latin American and Caribbean Center at the State University of New York, Stony Brook.
Olivia Harris is Senior Lecturer and Chair of the Anthropology Department at Goldsmith’s College, London.
Enrique Tandeter is Chair of the Department of History at the University of Buenos Aires and an Associate at the Center for the Study of State and Society in Buenos Aires.

List of Maps ix
Acknowledgments 1
I. Introduction 3
1. Andean Communities, Political Cultures, and Markets: The Changing Contours of a Field / Brooke Larson 5
II. From Inca to Spanish Rule: The Making of Indians and Markets 55
2. Did Tribute and Markets Prevail in the Andes before the European invasion? / John V. Murra 57
3. The Variety and Ambiguity of Native Andean Intervention in European Colonial Markets / Steve J. Stern 73
4. Exchange in the Ethnic Territories between 1530 and 1567: The Visitas of Huanuco and Chucuito / Carlos Sempat Assadourian 101
5. Exchange and Markets in the Sixteenth Century: A View from the North / Susan E. Ramirez 135
III. Andean Tribute, Migration, and Trade: Remapping the Boundaries of Ethnicity and Exchange 165
6. Indian Migration and Social Change in Seventeenth-Century Charcas / Thierry Saignas 167
7. Indians in Late Colonial Markets: Sources and Numbers / Enripe Tandeter, Vilma Milletich, Maria Matilda Olllier, and Beatriz Ruibal 196
8. Markets, Power, and the Politics of Exchange in Tapacari, c.1780 and 1980 / Brooke Larson and Rosario Leon 224
IV. Negotiating the Meanings of Market Exchange: Community and Hierarchy in Three Andean Contexts 257
9. Ethnic Calendars and Market Interventions Among the Ayllus of Lipes during the Nineteenth Century / Tristan Platt 259
10. The Sources and Meanings of Money: Beyond the Market Paradigm in an Ayllu of Northern Potosi / Olivia Harris 297
11. "Women Are More Indian": Ethnicity and Gender in a Community near Cuzco / Marisol de la Cadena 329
V. Conclusion 349
12. Ethnic Identity and Market Relations: Indians and Mestizos in the Andes / Olivia Harris 351
Glossary 391
Selected Bibliography 397
Contributors 419
Index 421

“This is a satisfyingly hefty tome, full of scholarly delights. Every article is the result of serious research, whether in modern communities or colonial archives; no one, however conversant with Andean studies, could read it without discovering facts previously unknown. The book overall is remarkably successful, in large part because the ambitious time span—from just before the conquest to the present—is balanced by a narrow topical focus and the close correspondence of theoretical and methodological approaches among the various authors. It is rare indeed to find an edited volume in which the articles work so well together; yet the result is not bland homogeneity but a lively discussion among a group of like-minded but independent scholars—as though one were listening in on the ‘series of conversations in a favorite London pub’ said to have been the book’s genesis.”