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Elizabeth P. Benson and Anita G. Cook, editorsPublication Details
Book1st edUniversity of Texas Press2001Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) F3429.3.R58 R58 2001 AVAILABLE New Feature: Text this to your cellphone
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Conklin, Research Associate for the Textile Museum, Washington, D.C., the Field Museum, Chicago, and the Institute of Andean Studies, Berkeley Propitiating the supernatural forces that could grant bountiful crops or wipe out whole villages through natural disasters was a sacred duty in ancient Peruvian societies, as in many premodern cultures. The essays in this book examine the archaeological evidence for ancient Peruvian sacrificial offerings of human beings, animals, and objects, as well as the cultural contexts in which the offerings occurred, from around 2500 B.C. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Subject
Contents
- Why sacrifice? / Elizabeth P. Benson
- Decapitation in Cupisnique and early Moche societies / Alana Cordy-Collins
- Blood and the moon priestesses : spondylus shells in Moche ceremony / Alana Cordy-Collins
- Blood, fertility, and transformation : interwoven themes in the Paracas necropolis embroideries / Mary Frame
- Children and ancestors : ritual practices and the Moche site of Huaca de la Luna, North Coast of Peru / Steve Bourget
- Ritual uses of trophy heads in ancient Nasca society / Donald A. Proulx
- Huari D-shaped structures, sacrificial offerings and divine rulership / Anita G. Cook
- The physical evidence of human sacrifice in ancient Peru / John W. Verano
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- 0292708947
- 0292708939
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