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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Shimada, Izumi, editor.

Fitzsimmons, James L., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of South America--Funeral customs and rites--Peru.

Indians of South America.

Human remains (Archaeology)--Peru.

Human remains (Archaeology).

Indians of South America--Funeral customs and rites.

Peru--Antiquities.

Peru.

Antiquities.

Physical Description:

vi, 362 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, 2015.

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." -- Book jacket.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780816529773

0816529779

OCLC:

894747921