Mujer, poder y riqueza : la tumba de élite femenina wari del Castillo de Huarmey / Patrycja Pradka-Giersz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Prządka-Giersz, Patrycja, author.

Language:

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Huari Indians--Antiquities.

Huari Indians.

Huari Indians--Funeral customs and rites--Peru--Ancash.

Women--Peru--Ancash--Social conditions.

Women.

Human remains (Archaeology).

Mausoleums.

Peru--Ancash.

Social conditions.

Mausoleums--Peru--Ancash.

Human remains (Archaeology)--Peru--Ancash.

Castillo Site (Peru).

Huarmey River Valley (Peru)--Antiquities.

Huarmey River Valley (Peru).

Ancash (Peru)--Antiquities.

Ancash (Peru).

Peru.

Physical Description:

256 pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 27 cm

Edition:

Primera edición.

Other Title:

Tumba de élite femenina wari del Castillo de Huarmey

Place of Publication:

Lima : Ediciones del Hipocampo, 2019.

Language Note:

In Spanish.

Summary:

Work revolves around the research carried out regarding the role of women in Wari society. t was in Huarmey, Áncash, where the archaeologist Patrycja Przadka-Giersz, at the head of the group of Polish and Peruvian archaeologists, discovered in 2012, the tomb of the Wari female elite that kept from some point of the Wari period (600 to 1500 AD) 47 skeletons of women of high stock. The interesting thing is that the ages ranged from 60, like that of the woman in the central chamber, to 35 to 40 and 50 and 13 in other chambers. They were all in the so-called red room. Let us consider that this color had a special symbolization among pre-Columbian cultures. The bodies were adorned with more than 1,200 objects made of silver, gold and their alloys, lead, possibly bronze, bone, sculpted wood, textiles, ceramics and matte. The site gained its fame due to the presence of excellent quality and impressively preserved fabrics. Referring to the book, anthropologist Sofía Chacaltana Cortez states "this impressive finding makes us rethink the history of women, including the category of women and power in pre-Hispanic or ancient Peru.".

Contents:

Prefacio

Capitulo 1: La elite femenina en el mundo prehispánico andino

Capitulo 2: Huarmey prehispánico

Capitulo 3: Castillo de Huarmey: el templo y la necrópolis de las elites wari

Capitulo 4: La tumba de elite femenina Wari

Capitulo 5: Reflexiones finales.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-253)

ISBN:

9789972894978

9972894975

OCLC:

1242549994