Religious Regimes in Peru Religion and State Development in a Long-term Perspective and the Effects in the Andean Village of Zurite

This study deals with religion and politics from the first introduction of agriculture, ca 8000 B.C.E., providing a wealth of new sociological insights as well as many novel historical facts. This long-term investigation is among the first of its kind, if not the first, that has been produced for any world region.