| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter One. More Questions than Answers; Moche Visual Culture; Subjects, Themes, and Narratives; Iconography, Archaeology, and Identity; Presentation Theme; Wrinkle Face and Iguana; Ritual Runners; Ceremonial Badminton; Coca-Taking Ceremony; Prisoners and Portrait-Head Vessels; Copulation with Wrinkle Face; Summary; Context and Methodology; A Dualist System; A Tripartite Organization?; Chapter Two. Eros; Previous Contributions; Rafael Larco Hoyle; Anne Marie Hocquenghem; Susan Bergh; Diachronic versus Synchronic; Sodomy; Ritual Paraphernalia |
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Presence of Children in Scenes of SodomySodomy and Individual with Fangs; Masturbation; Fellatio; Sexual Depictions on Libation Vases; Skeletal Beings and Erections; Anthropomorphic Genitals; Women and Blood; Inverted Fertilities; Vaginal Copulation; Copulation between Animals; Copulation between Animals and Women; Copulation between Wrinkle Face and Women; Eventual Sacrificial Victims; Sacrificial Victim and Vaginal Copulation; Summary; Chapter Three. Eros and Thanatos; Chapter Four. Thanatos; Organization of the Narrative; The Awakening; The Exit; The Reinstatement; Sacrifice and Capture |
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Strombus SeashellsArchaeological Evidence of an Afterworld; Summary; Chapter Five. Dualities, Liminalities, and Rulership; Dualities; Sipan; Huacas de Moche Site and El Brujo Complex; Iconography; Asymmetry and Duality; Liminalities; On the Structure of Moche Rulership; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-251) and index |
| Audience |
Scholarly & Professional University of Texas Press |
| Subject |
Mochica pottery -- Themes, motives
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Mochica Indians -- Rites and ceremonies
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Mochica Indians -- Social life and customs
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Sex in art.
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Death in art.
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Human sacrifice in art.
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Antiquities
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Death in art
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Human sacrifice in art
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Mochica Indians -- Social life and customs
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Mochica pottery -- Themes, motives
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Sex in art
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Peru -- Antiquities.
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Peru
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0292791836 |
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9780292791831 |
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0292712790 |
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9780292712799 |
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