This list of suggested readings is exactly that, suggested. It is not required reading and participants are under no obligation to buy these books in order to participate in the short courses. They are offered as a courtesy for those who would like some pre-course reading. Reading any one of these will help you prepare for the things we will discuss during the course and reading a few even more so. However, the basics will be discussed during the course and pre-course study is not a prerequisite.
Red * indicates top three suggestions
*Ascher, Marcia and Robert Ascher
1997 Mathematics of the Incas, Code of the Quipu, Dover Publications, New York.
Bauer, Brian and David Dearborn
1995 Astronomy and Empire in the Ancient Andes, University of Texas Press, Austin.
Cobo, Bernabe
1990 (1657) Inca Religion and Customs, translated by Roland Hamilton, University of Texas Press, Austin.
de la Vega, Garcilaso
1994 (1612) Royal Commentaries of the Incas and the General History of Peru, translated by Harold V. Livermore,
University of Texas Press, Austin.
*Moseley, Michael
1992 The Inca and Their Ancestors, Thames and Hutson, London.
Quilter, Jeffery and Gary Urton
2002 Narrative Threads - Accounting and Recounting in Andean Khipu, University of Texas Press, Austin.
Salomon, Frank
2004 The Cord Keepers - Khipus and Cultural Life in a Pervian Village, Duke University Press, Durham.
Urton, Gary
1990 The History of a Myth - Pacariqtambo and the Origin of the Inkas, University of Texas Press, Austin.
*Urton, Gary
2003 Signs of the Inka Khipu, Binary Coding in the Andean Knotted String Records, University of Texas Press, Austin.
Urton, Gary
1997 The Social Life of Numbers, A Quechua Ontology of Numbers and Philosophy of Arithmetic, University of Texas Press, Austin.
Urton, Gary
1999 Inca Myths, University of Texas Press, Austin.
Recommended Guide Books:
Lonely Planet Peru, 2011 edition
Moon Peru (Moon Handbooks), 2011 edition