Edited by Joanne Pillsbury

This reference work for research on the pre-Hispanic, viceregal, and early republican periods of the Andean region of South America is the outcome of a project directed by Joanne Pillsbury, formerly assistant dean of the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts and now Andrall E. Pearson Curator in the department of the arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The work is intended for scholars in anthropology, history, archaeology, art history, and related disciplines. It includes 29 thematic essays and 186 biographical and bibliographical entries reflecting contributions from 125 scholars in nineteen countries. The guide addresses key texts of the 16th through the 19th century concerning the region defined by the extent of the Inca Empire (modern Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, and parts of Colombia, Argentina, and Chile). 

Copublished by the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art and the University of Oklahoma Press.

A Spanish translation (Las Fuentes documentales para los estudios andinos, 1530-1900) was copublished with the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú in 2016.