We congratulate Danitza Márquez Ramírez on the publication of a new issue of the journal Notas de Antropología de las Américas, released on 19 December 2025.
Issue 4 (2025) of the open-access, peer-reviewed journal Notas de Antropología de las Américas, published by the Department of Anthropology of the Americas at the University of Bonn, marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of Catherine Julien’s Reading Inca History (2000). Founded on the initiative of doctoral students and faculty, the journal presents this issue as a thematic dossier titled “Etnohistoria Andina: Homenaje a Catherine Julien”.
The dossier is edited by BCDSS PhD Researcher Danitza Márquez Ramírez, Dr. Sergio Bebin Cúneo, PhD Researcher Joaquín J. A. Molina M., Dr. Carlos Zegarra Moretti, and former BCDSS Co-Speaker and Principal Investigator Prof. Dr. Karoline Noack. It builds on Julien’s influential contribution to debates on the reliability of colonial chronicles, understood both as vehicles of Hispanic interests and as negotiated spaces in which Inca factions sought to legitimize authority and preserve the past through dynastic genealogies, oral memory, quipus, and other media. Central to the dossier is Julien’s proposal of an “antithetical reading” of the chronicles and her insistence on linking narrative accounts to material records and practices of memory.
Beyond the dossier, Issue 4 (2025) includes original research articles and introduces a new section, Fuentes (Sources), dedicated to bringing previously unpublished archival materials into scholarly circulation. The issue also features a Book Symposium on Potosí in the Global Silver Age (16th–19th Centuries), organized by former BCDSS Guest Researcher Dr. Paola Revilla Orías; a Spanish translation of a section of Prof. Dr. Karoline Noack’s doctoral dissertation on Spanish colonial law (Ordenanzas de Jayanca, 1566); and a round table from the workshop Rethinking Human–Animal Relations in the Americas, organized by BCDSS PhD Researcher Taynã Tagliati and BCDSS Researcher Prof. Dr. Carla Jaimes Betancourt. Additional contributions further expand the scope of the issue and continue the dialogue within Andean ethnohistory.