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The publication includes the following papers: "Mountain-Body Metaphor of Kallawaya Andeans Expressed in Mesas" by Joseph Bastien (University of Texas, Arlington); "The Power of the Enqaychu and the Cosmos of Andeans Pastoralists" by Inge Bolin (Malaspina University College, British Columbia); "The Emergence of the Modern Mesa: African Influence and Syncretisms Revisited" by Bonnie Glass-Coffin (Utah State University); "Constructing the Mesa: From Extirpation to Adoration" by Donald Joralemon (Smith College, Massachusetts); "Spellbound: Love and Magic on the North Coast of Peru" by Luis Milliones and Laura León-Llerena (Lima, Peru); "Andean Cosmology and Cosmography in the North-Peruvian Shamanic Mesa" by Mario Polia (Rome); "Shamanism, Mesas, and Cosmologies in the Central Andes" by Douglas Sharon (P. A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, Berkeley); "Curanderismo at La Pescadera-Salas" by Donald Skillman (Logan, Utah); "Chavín de Huántar: Evidence for an Evolved Shamanism" by John Rick (Stanford University); and "Social Organization as Ritual: The Chipaya Andeans of the Bolivian Altiplano" by Henri Migala. The new book is illustrated with 76 photographs, drawings, and maps.