(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Fondo Editorial, 2010) Drennan, Robert D.
As the editors of this volume observe in their introduction, Andean archaeology has long had a well-developed anti-comparativist streak. Lo andino has been a rallying point for the explicitly articulated view that much about the Andean environment and the cultures and forms of social organization that developed there were utterly unlike anything else in the world, and that comparative study is therefore misguided. There certainly are Andeanist archaeologists with well-developed comparative perspectives, however. This is particularly evident in the study of the Inka empire, which has been viewed from a comparative perspective in several rather different ways.
