The Andean highlands and Amazonian rainforest run cheek-by-jowl for thousands of miles through South America. Popular perception, at least, would have the Andes as a cradle of civilization, set against Amazonia, where even the Incasfeared to tread. But is the ‘divide’ between them a self-evident, intrinsic definitionof opposing Andean and Amazonian worlds – or a simplistic parody?CONTRIBUTORS: Adrian J. Pearce, David G. Beresford-Jones, Paul Heggarty, Eduardo Machicado Murillo, Lars Fehren-Schmitz, Alf Hornborg, R. Tom Zuidema, Tom D. Dillehay, André Strauss, Peter Kaulicke, Alexander Herrera Wassilowsky, Darryl Wilkinson, Fabrício R. Santos, Chiara Barbieri, Rik van Gijn, Pieter Muysken, Eduardo Góes Neves, Willem F. H. Adelaar, Roberto Zariquiey, Heiko Prümers, Umberto Lombardo, José M. Capriles, Vera Tyuleneva, Cristiana Bertazoni