| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 362 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| 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 D. Klaus, Rafael A. 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 E. Buikstra and Kenneth C. Nystrom -- Requiem aeternum? : archaeothanatology of mortuary ritual in colonial Mórrope, north coast of Peru / Haagen D. Klaus and Manuel E. Tam -- The sadness of jars : separation and rectification in Andean understandings of death / Catherine J. Allen -- Turbulent tombs / Frank Salomon -- Editors and contributors -- Index |
| Summary |
"Living with the Dead in the Andes considers recent research by archaeologists, bioarchaeologists, ethnographers, and ethnohistorians whose work reveals the diversity and complexity of the dead-living interaction. The book's contributors reap the salient results of this new research to illuminate various conceptions and treatments of the dead: 'bad' and 'good' dead, mummified and preserved, the body represented by art or effigies, and personhood in material and symbolic terms. Death does not end or erase the emotional bonds established in life, and a comprehensive understanding of death requires consideration of the corpse, the soul, and the mourners. Lingering sentiment and memory of the departed seems as universal as death itself, yet often it is economic, social, and political agendas that influence the interactions between the dead and the living."--Jacket |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Indians of South America -- Funeral customs and rites -- Peru
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Human remains (Archaeology) -- Peru
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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Antiquities
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Human remains (Archaeology)
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Indians of South America -- Funeral customs and rites
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Indianer
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Bestattungsritus
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Menschlicher Überrest
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Tod
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| SUBJECT |
Peru -- Antiquities.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85100187
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| Subject |
Peru
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Peru
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Shimada, Izumi, editor
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Fitzsimmons, James L., editor
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| ISBN |
9780816531745 |
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0816531749 |
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1336288183 |
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9781336288188 |
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