Living with the dead in the Andes / edited by Izumi Shimada and James L. Fitzsimmons.

Other author Shimada, Izumi.
Other author Fitzsimmons, James L.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoTucson : The University of Arizona Press, 2015.
Descriptionpages cm
Supplemental ContentFull text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subjects
Indians of South America--Funeral customs and rites. --Peru.
Human remains (Archaeology)--Peru.
Peru--Antiquities.

Contents 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 durée 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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LCCN 2014040044
ISBN9780816529773 (cloth : alk. paper)

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