[OANNES Foro] Autor da detalles sobre el libro "Guano and the Opening of the Pacific World"

[Mario Cabrejos]

From: Greg Cushman gcushman en ku.edu
Date: 2013/7/25


Gregory T. Cushman (University of Kansas) recently published the following book:
Guano and the Opening of the Pacific World: A Global Ecological History. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013. Series: Studies in Environmental and History.
xxii + 393 pp., illus., figs., maps, tables, biblio., index, ISBN 9781107004139  
Available at http://www.cambridge.org/9781107004139
Reviewed in  Science 340 (28 June 2013): 1525-26.  http://www.dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1239339 

Although focused on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the book begins with a section on guano in ancient and colonial Peru. This includes a new transcription and interpretation of a 1560s coat of arms belonging to don Pedro Guañeque found on Isla Chincha Norte, now at the British Museum and better known as the "Bollaert slab" cited in Kubler's classic article "Guano Archaeology," and the Urpi Huachac story at the beginning of the Huarochiri Manuscript--all fixated on the centrality of guano birds, guano islands, and guano to their meaning.


Greg
Gregory T. Cushman
Associate Professor of International Environmental History
University of Kansas


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