Funerary practices and models in the ancient Andes : the return of the living dead / edited by Peter Eeckhout, Lawrence S. Owens.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Eeckhout, Peter, editor.

Owens, L. S. (Lawrence S.), editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Funeral rites and ceremonies, Ancient--Andes Region.

Funeral rites and ceremonies, Ancient.

Indians of South America--Andes Region--Antiquities.

Indians of South America.

Excavations (Archaeology).

Social archaeology.

Human remains (Archaeology).

Grave goods.

Tombs.

Death--Social aspects.

History.

Andes Region.

Antiquities.

Andes Region--Antiquities.

Death--Social aspects--Andes Region--History--To 1500.

Death.

Tombs--Andes Region.

Grave goods--Andes Region.

Human remains (Archaeology)--Andes Region.

Social archaeology--Andes Region.

Excavations (Archaeology)--Andes Region.

Indians of South America--Antiquities.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xii, 307 pages ; 27 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2015.

Summary:

"This edited volume focuses on the funerary archaeology of the Pan-Andean area in the pre-Hispanic period. The contributors examine the treatment of the dead and provide an understanding of how these ancient groups coped with mortality, as well as the ways in which they strove to overcome the effects of death. The contributors also present previously unpublished discoveries and employ a range of academic and analytical approaches that have rarely--if ever--been utilised in South America before. The book covers the Formative Period to the end of the Inca Empire, and the chapters together comprise a state-of-the-art summary of all the best research on Andean funerary archaeology currently being carried out around the globe"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The impossibility of death : introduction to funerary practices and models in the ancient Andes / Peter Eeckhout and Lawrence S. Owens

Death and the dead in formative Perú / Peter Kaulicke

Far away, so close : living with the ancestors in Panquilma, Peruvian central coast / Enrique Lopez-Hurtado

A temple for the dead at San Juanito, lower Santa Valley, during the Initial Period / Claude Chapdelaine and Gérard Gagné

Tombs and tumuli on the coast and pampa of Tarapacá : explaining the Formative Period in northern Chile (south central Andes) / Carolina Agüero and Mauricio Uribe

Paracas funerary practices in Palpa, south coast of Perú / Elsa Tomasto-Cagigao, Markus Reindel and Johny Isla

When the dead speak in Moche : funerary customs in an architectural complex associated with the Huaca del Sol and the Huaca de la Luna / Henry Gayoso-Rullier and Santiago Uceda-Castillo

The construction of social identity : tombs of specialists at San José de Moro, Jequetepeque Valley, Perú / Carlos Rengifo Chunga and Luis Jaime Castillo Butters

Bodies of evidence : mortuary archaeology and the Wari-Tiwanaku paradox / William H. Isbell and Antti Korpisaari

To the god of death, disease, and healing : social bioarchaeology of Cemetery I at Pachacamac / Lawrence S. Owens and Peter Eeckhout

The preparation of corpses and mummy bundles in Ychsma funerary practices at Armatambo / Luisa Díaz Arriola

From one burial to another : a sequence of funerary patterns from the Manteño culture (Integration Period, AD 800-1535) site of Japotó, Manabí Province, Ecuador / Tania Delabarde

Decapitated for the temple : a Nazca funerary context from Cahuachi / Oscar Danial Llanos Jacinto

Multidisciplinary study of Nectandra sp. seeds from Chimu funerary contexts at Huaca de la Luna, north coast of Perú / María del R. Montoya Vera.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781107059344

1107059348

9781107629639

1107629632

OCLC:

889736753

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