About the Editors and Contributors
THE EDITORS
Gary Urton is the Dumbarton Oaks Professor of Pre-Columbian Studies and
Chairman of the Department of Anthropology at Harvard University. His
research focuses on a variety of topics in pre-Columbian and early Colonial
Andean intellectual history, and draws on materials and methods in
archaeology, ethnohistory, and ethnology. He is the author of many articles and
author/editor of several volumes on Andean/Quechua cultures and Inca
civilization. His books include: At the Crossroads of the Earth and the Sky
(1981), The History of a Myth (1990), The Social Life of Numbers (1997), Inca
Myths (1999), and Signs of the Inka Khipu (2003). A MacArthur Fellow (2001–
2005), Urton is the founder/director of the Harvard Khipu Database Project.
Adriana von Hagen is an independent scholar and writer who specializes in the
archaeology of Peru. Her books (with Craig Morris) include The Incas: Lords
of the Four Quarters and Cities of the Ancient Andes, among others.
THE CONTRIBUTORS
Juan Ossio Acuña is a full professor in the Department of Social Sciences,
Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima.
Catherine J. Allen is Professor Emerita of Anthropology at The George
Washington University, Washington, D.C.
Elizabeth Arkush is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of
Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania.
Tamara L. Bray is Professor of Anthropology at Wayne State University,
Detroit, Michigan.
Richard L. Burger is Professor of Anthropology and Archaeological Studies at
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut.
Rodolfo Cerrón-Palomino is full Professor of Linguistics at Pontificia
Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima.
Lawrence S. Coben is Executive Director of the Sustainable Preservation
Initiative and a Consulting Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania Museum
of Archaeology and Anthropology in Philadelphia.