Andean village life is vibrantly depicted through folk tales, stories, and art in this compendium of South American culture.
Elizabeth Conrad VanBuskirk is an exhibited fiber artist and award-winning writer who has taught courses on Inca history and culture to university educators. She is the cofounder of the Center for Traditional Textiles of Cusco, which works to save ancient Peruvian textile traditions from extinction. She lives in Charlotte, Vermont. Angel L. Callañaupa Alvarez is an award-winning Peruvian painter inspired by history, tradition, legends, superstitions, and the Andean vision of the cosmos. In 1970, he created landscape paintings for Dennis Hopper's infamous film The Last Movie, which was being filmed in his hometown of Chinchero.
