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Record Nr.

UNINA9910463951603321

Titolo

Living with the dead in the Andes / / edited by Izumi Shimada and James L. Fitzsimmons ; jacket designed by Nicole Hayward ; contributors, Catherine J. Allen [and eleven others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tucson, [Arizona] : , : The University of Arizona Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

0-8165-3174-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (344 p.)

Disciplina

985/.01

Soggetti

Indians of South America - Funeral customs and rites - Peru

Human remains (Archaeology) - Peru

Electronic books.

Peru Antiquities

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Jacket image: Courtesy of The Royal Library- Copenhagen, GKS 2232 4 Guaman Poma, Nueva corónica y buen gobierno (1615), p. 258, Drawing No. 100; La fiesta de los defuntos (celebration of the dead).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction / Izumi Shimada and James L. Fitzsimmons -- The sacred character of ruins on the Peruvian north coast / Jean-François Millaire -- Many heads are better than one : mortuary practice and ceramic art in Moche society / Mary Weismantel -- Living with the dead : conception and treatment of the dead on the Peruvian coast / Izumi Shimada, Haagen Klaus, Rafael Segura, and Go Matsumoto -- Ritual violence and human offerings at the temple of the sacred stone, Túcume, Peru / J. Marla Toyne -- The dead and the longue duree in Peru's north highlands / George F. Lau -- Ancestors and social memory : a South American example of dead body politics / Jane Buikstra and Kenneth C. Nystrom -- Requiem aeternum? : archaeothanatology of mortuary ritual in colonial Mórrope, north coast of Peru / Haagen Klaus and Manuel E. Tam -- The sadness of jars : separation and rectification in Andean understandings of death / Catherine J. Allen -- Turbulent tombs / Frank Salomon.