Indigenous Visual Cultures in Latin America: Seeing, Being, and Meaning

Tamara L. Bray is Professor of Anthropology at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. She is the author or editor of several books including The Archaeology of Wak'as: Explorations of the Sacred in the Pre-Columbian Andes, Visual Languages of the Inca, and, most recently, Objects of Empire: The Ceramic Tradition of the Imperial Inca State.

Carolyn Dean is Distinguished Professor Emerita of History of Art and Visual Culture at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Dean's research focuses on Inka visual culture. Her books include Inka Bodies and the Body of Christ: Corpus Christi in Colonial Cuzco, Peru (Los Cuerpos de los Incas y el cuerpo de Cristo: El Corpus Christi en el Cuzco colonial), and, most recently, Inside Abstraction: Interpreting Inka Visual Culture.