"Collection of author's essays on various interrelated themes and processes in the ethnohistory of the Peruvian Upper Amazon. Volume's overall intent is to contribute to the construction of an indigenous perspective on Amazonian history, a subject largely ignored in Peruvian historiography. Essays include analyses of precolumbian history, of various periods in colonial history, and of present-day indigenous views of history"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.