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The art and archaeology of the Moche : an ancient Andean society of the Peruvian north coast

Title
The art and archaeology of the Moche : an ancient Andean society of the Peruvian north coast / edited by Steve Bourget and Kimberly L. Jones.
Publication
Austin : University of Texas Press, 2008.

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Additional Authors
  • Bourget, Steve, 1956-
  • Jones, Kimberly L., 1979-
Description
xiii, 291 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps; 29 cm.
Subject
  • Mochica Indians > Antiquities > Congresses
  • Mochica art > Congresses
  • Excavations (Archaeology) > Peru > Moche River Valley > Congresses
  • Moche River Valley (Peru) > Antiquities > Congresses
Note
  • Papers originally presented at a symposium at the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Texas at Austin in November 2003.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Iconography meets archaeology / Elizabeth P. Benson -- Sacrifices and ceremonial calendars in societies of the central Andes : a reconsideration / Anne Marie Hocquenghem -- Ulluchu : an elusive fruit / Donna McClelland -- Moche masking traditions / Christopher B. Donnan -- Convergent catastrophe and the demise of Dos Cabezas : environmental change and regime change in ancient Peru / Michael E. Moseley, Christopher B. Donnan, and David K. Keefer -- Forensic iconography : the case of the Moche giants / Alana Cordy-Collins and Charles F. Merbs -- Moche forms for shaping sheet metal / Christopher B. Donnan, David A. Scott, and Todd Bracken -- Moche art style in the Santa Valley : between being "à la mode" and developing a provincial identity / Claude Chapdelaine -- The priests of the bicephalus arc : tombs and effigies found in Huaca de la Luna and their relation to Moche rituals / Santiago Uceda -- The Moche people : genetic perspective on their sociopolitical composition and organization / Izumi Shimada ... [et al.] -- Communality and diversity in Moche human sacrifice / John W. Verano -- Art and Moche martial arts / Jeffrey Quilter -- Moche textile production on the Peruvian north coast : a contextual analysis / Jean-François Millaire -- Spiders and spider decapitators in Moche iconography : identification from the contexts of Sipán, antecedents and symbolism / Néstor Ignacio Alva Meneses -- The third man : identity and rulership in Moche archaeology and visual culture / Steve Bourget.
Call Number
JGF 08-236
ISBN
  • 9780292718678 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0292718675 (cloth : alk. paper)
LCCN
2008027539
OCLC
216941058
Title
The art and archaeology of the Moche : an ancient Andean society of the Peruvian north coast / edited by Steve Bourget and Kimberly L. Jones.
Imprint
Austin : University of Texas Press, 2008.
Edition
1st ed.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author
Bourget, Steve, 1956-
Jones, Kimberly L., 1979-
Research Call Number
JGF 08-236
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