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Twelve millennia : archaeology of the upper Mississippi River Valley /
The people of Taquile Island on the Peruvian side of beautiful Lake Titicaca, the highest navigable lake in the Americas, are renowned for the hand-woven textiles that they both wear and sell to outsiders. One thousand seven hundred Quechua-speaking peasant farmers, who depend on potatoes and the fi...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Iowa City :
University of Iowa Press,
©2003.
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| Series: | Bur oak book.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | The people of Taquile Island on the Peruvian side of beautiful Lake Titicaca, the highest navigable lake in the Americas, are renowned for the hand-woven textiles that they both wear and sell to outsiders. One thousand seven hundred Quechua-speaking peasant farmers, who depend on potatoes and the fish from the lake, host the forty thousand tourists who visit their island each year. Yet only twenty-five years ago, few tourists had even heard of Taquile. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 254 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-243) and index. |
| ISBN: | 1587294397 9781587294396 |