1. Bernal Díaz del Castillo, translated as The Discovery and Conquest of Mexico , by J. M. Cohen (Middlesex: Penquin Books, 1963), 191.

2. Marcel Mauss, The Gift, The Form and Reason for Exchange in Archaic Societies , trans. W. D. Halls (London: Routledge, 1990).

3. Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals , trans. Walter Kaufmann and R. J. Hollingdale (New York: Vintage, 1989), 70.

4. Kenelm Burridge, Someone, No One (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1979), 96.

5. Bartolomé de las Casas, Apologetica Historia Summaria (Mexico City: Instituto de Investigaciones Historicas, 1967), 183.

6. Díaz del Castillo, The Discovery and Conquest of Mexico , 407-408.

7. See Pierre Klossowski, La monnaie vivante (Paris: E. Losfeld, 1970).

8. Fernand Braudel, Capitalism and Material Life 1400-1800 , trans. Miriam Kochan (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1973), 330-331.

9. Francisco López de Gómara, Cortés, The Life of the Conqueror by His Secretary , trans. Lesley Byrd Simpson (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1965), 407-408.

10. Søren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling , trans. Walter Lowrie (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1954), 49.

1. Reported by Robert Cohen, United Nations Bureau Chief of the Nicaraguan News Agency. This passage is excerpted from a copyrighted article by Robert Cohen titled ''In Brazil the Women Boast About Their Plastic Surgery. " The article was published in the number 25, Winter 1986 issue of Covert Action Information Bulletin (now Covert Action Quarterly ). Their address: 1500 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, D.C. 20005.

1. Marino Orlando Sánchez Macedo, De las Sacerdotisas, Brujas y Advinas de Macho Picchu (Lima: Empresa editora Contentel Peru S.A., 1989), 130.

2. Anthropologist Alan Kolata, who worked for ten years on the Tiwanaku site in Bolivia, taught the local population the techniques of canals and raised fields developed by the Tiwanaku civilization by 1,000 B.C. They then grew seven times the amount of food they had been growing with modern techniques.

3. David Cook Noble, Demographic Collapse. Indian Peru, 1520-1620 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981).

4. Hiram Bingham, Lost City of the Incas (New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1962), 188.

5. Qosqo legends of the imperial period tell that Manko Qhapaq was turned to stone, as also Ayar Kachi and Ayar Auka. Qosqo mythology tells of the conversion of the sons of the sun into stone, as also, conversely, stones converted into soldiers called puruaukas who defended the Incas when they were besieged (Sánchez Macedo, De las Sacerdotisas, Brujas y Advinas de Machu Picchu , 188).

1. White-out was the bane of the explorers; they and their dogs fell into crevices neither had been able to see.

2. The great white, tiger, and mako sharks feed on seals and sea lions, and sometimes mistake surfboard riders for them. They most often lose interest in a human victim after the initial bite. There have been only one hundred fatalities from shark bites in Australia during the past 150 years.

3. "No pain, no death is more terrible to a wild creature than its fear of man. A red-throated diver, sodden and obscene with oil, able to move only its head, will push itself out from the seawall with its bill if you reach down to it as it floats like a log in the tide. A poisoned crow, gaping and helplessly floundering in the grass, bright yellow foam bubbling from its throat, will dash itself up again and again on to the descending wall of air, if you try to catch it. A rabbit, inflated and foul with myxomatosis, just a twitching pulse beating in a bladder of bones and fur, will feel the vibration of your footstep and will look for you with bulging, sightless eyes. Then it will drag itself away into a bush, trembling with fear" (J. A. Baker, The Peregrine [Harmond-sworth: Penguin, 1970], 100).

4. Diane Ackerman, The Moon by Whale Light (New York: Vintage, 1991), 133-134.

1. Charles Baudelaire, Oeuvres complétes , ed. Claude Pichois (Paris: Gallimard, 1961), 1256.

2. Jacques Lacan, Écrits , trans. Alan Sheridan (New York: W. W. Norton, 1977), 72-77.

3. Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, Anti Oedipus , trans. Robert Hurley, Mark Seem, and Helen R. Lane (New York: Viking, 1977), 338

4. J. G. Ballard, Crash (New York: Vintage, 1985).

5. Jean-François Lyotard, Libidinal Economy trans. Iain Hamilton Grant (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993).

6. Michel Tournier, Friday , trans Norman Denny (New York: Pantheon, 1969), 192-194.

7. Gabriel Garcia Marquez, In Evil Hour , trans. Gregory Rabassa (New York: Harper & Row, 1979).

8. Shirley Lindenbaum, "Variations on a Sociosexual Theme in Melanesia," in Gilbert H. Herdt et al., Ritualized Homosexuality in Melanesia (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984), 337-361.

9. Jean Baudrillard, Seduction , trans. Brian Singer (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1979), 96-97.

10. Daniel Wit, Thailand—Another Vietnam? (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1968), 62.

1. Adolf Portman, Animal Forms and Patterns , trans. Hella Czech (New York: Schocken, 1967).

2. David Grossman, Voir ci-dessous: amour , trans. Judith Misrahi and Ami Barak (Paris: Seuil, 1991).

3. Immanuel Kant, Critique of Judgement , trans. Werner S. Pluhar (Indianapolis: Hackett, 1987), 103-132.