Description: Touching on themes of colonialism, cultural hybridity, resistance, and assimilation, Magdalena de Cao is the first in-depth and heavily illustrated examination of what life was like at one town and church complex in Peru during the early Colonial Period, when native peoples and Christian arrivals met.
Brief description: Jeffrey Quilter is past Director of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, and of Pre-Columbian Studies at Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection.
Review Quotes: An important, compelling, and enduring scholarly contribution to the archaeology of indigenous peoples and European colonialism in Peru and the Americas.--Christopher B. Roding