A “microhistory” is a way of drawing out big-picture narratives about the past by looking closely at a single case. By looking closely at objects and thinking about their lives in the worlds in which they were created, Microhistories of the Andes explores topics like Andean cosmologies, cultural conceptions of agricultural practices, objects of devotion and spirituality, and the histories of materials across land and time. Tracing the lives of art objects made as early as the first millennium…