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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453892103321

Titolo

The art and archaeology of the Moche [[electronic resource] ] : an ancient Andean society of the Peruvian north coast / / edited by Steve Bourget and Kimberly L. Jones

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Austin, : University of Texas Press, 2008

ISBN

0-292-79386-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (316 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

BourgetSteve <1956->

JonesKimberly L. <1979->

Disciplina

985/.1601

Soggetti

Mochica Indians - Antiquities

Mochica art

Excavations (Archaeology) - Peru - Moche River Valley

Electronic books.

Moche River Valley (Peru) Antiquities Congresses

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Papers originally presented at the Fourth D.J. Sibley Family Conference held at the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Texas at Austin in November 2003.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Iconography meets archaeology / Elizabeth P. Benson -- Sacrifices and ceremonial calendars in societies of the central Andes: a reconsideration / Anne Marie Hocquenghem -- Ulluchu: an elusive fruit / Donna McClelland -- Moche masking traditions / Christopher B. Donnan -- Convergent catastrophe and the demise of Dos Cabezas: environmental change and regime change in ancient Peru / Michael E. Moseley, Christopher B. Donnan, and David K. Keefer -- Forensic iconography: the case of the Moche giants / Alana Cordy-Collins and Charles F. Merbs -- Moche forms for shaping sheet metal / Christopher B. Donnan, David A. Scott, and Todd Bracken -- Moche art style in the Santa Valley: between being "a la mode" and developing a provincial identity / Claude Chapdelaine -- The priests of the bicephalus arc: tombs and effigies found in Huaca de la Luna and their relation to Moche rituals / Santiago Uceda -- The Moche people: genetic perspective on their sociopolitical composition and organization /



Izumi Shimada ... [et al.] -- Communality and diversity in Moche human sacrifice / John W. Verano -- Art and Moche martial arts / Jeffrey Quilter -- Moche textile production on the Peruvian north coast: a contextual analysis / Jean-Franc̦ois Millaire -- Spiders and spider decapitators in Moche iconography: identification from the contexts of Sipán, antecedents and symbolism / Nestor Ignacio Alva Meneses -- The third man: identity and rulership in Moche archaeology and visual culture / Steve Bourget.