Spanish and Andean perceptions of the other in the conquest of the Andes / Franklin Pease -- Allegory and ethnography in Cabeza de Vaca's Naufragios and Comentarios / Jose Rabasa -- The art of survival in early colonial Peru / Rolena Adorno -- Colonial expansion and Indian resistance in Sonora / Jose Luis Mirafuentes Galvan -- Cultural creativity and raiding bands in eighteenth-century northern New Spain / William L. Merrill -- Santiago's horse / William B. Taylor -- Maintaining the road of life / Alice B. Kehoe -- Change, continuity, and variation in native American societies as a response to conquest / Duane Champagne --Definitional violence and Plains Indian reservational life / David Reed Miller -- Gender and culture / Jennie R. Joe -- Violence and resistance in the Americas / Michael Taussig.