In Press. The Quito Manuscript: An Inca History Preserved by Fernando de Montesinos New Haven: Yale University Publications in Anthropology.
2003. The Jesuit and the Incas: The Extraordinary Life of Padre Blas Valera SJ. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
Winner of the Donald B. King Distinguished Scholarship Award.
2003. The Sacred Selva: Fernando de Montesinos's Lost Historia del Paytiti (c. 1638). In: I sacro e il paesaggio nell' America indigena Ed. by Davide Domenici, Carolina Orsni and Sofia Venturoli. 353-359. Bologna: Cooperativa Libraria Universitaria Editrice Bologna.
2003. La Lucha por Uranmarca. Milenio. #16,7.
2002. Biblical Prophesy and the Conquest of Peru: Fernando de Montesinos' Memorias Historiales. Colonial Latin American Historical Review. Vol. 11, #3, 259-278.
2002. Los Chachapoyanos en San Jeronimo. Milenio. Vol. 2, #14,8.
2002. Woven Words: The Royal Khipus of Blas Valera. In: Narrative Threads: Accounting and Recounting in Andean Khipus. Ed. by Jeffrey Quilter and Gary Urton. 151 - 170. University of Texas Press: Austin.
2001 Montesinos y los reyes de Wari. In Huari y Tiwanaku: Modelos vs. Evidencias, Primera Parte. Ed. by Peter Kaulicke and William H. Isbell. 641 - 648. Lima: Boletin de Arqueologia PUCP.
2000. Introduction to Yale University's Latin American Manuscript Collection. Yale University's Latin American Manuscript Collection, Series II, Primary Source Microfilms.
1998. Illegitimacy and Racial Hierarchy in the Peruvian Priesthood: A 17th Century Dispute. Catholic Historical Review. Vol. LXXXIV, #3, 431-454.
1998. The Imprisonment of Blas Valera: Heresy and Inca History in Colonial Peru. Colonial Latin American Historical Review. Vol. 7, #1, 43-58.
1996. A Concubine Redeemed: The 1603 Case of Luisa, "Indian of Chile". Manuscripta. Vol. 40, #3, 173-179.
--I am co-director, along with Dr. Brian Bauer (Professor of Anthropology, University of Illinois at Chicago), of a multi-disciplinary project studying the Chanka people of Andahuaylas, Peru. This five year project combines archaeological and ethnohistorical research to elucidate how Chanka society was transformed under Inca and Spanish domination.
This project is funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation.
Historical Anthropology; Native Peoples of South America; Inca ethnohistory; Native American Writing Systems; Ethnopoetics; Human Rights Theory; Anthropology of Religion
The Inca period ceremonial usnu in Uranmarca, Peru
On the Inca road leading into Uranmarca
In Uranmarca with my compadres, the Zamora Quezada family