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Tombs for the living : Andean mortuary practices : a symposium at Dumbarton Oaks 12th and 13th October 1991
- Title
- Tombs for the living : Andean mortuary practices : a symposium at Dumbarton Oaks 12th and 13th October 1991 / Tom D. Dillehay, editor.
- Publication
- Washington, D.C. : Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 2011.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 15-5027 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- viii, 425 p. : ill., maps; 23 cm,.
- Subjects
- Indians of South America > Funeral customs and rites
- Andes Region
- Burial
- Antiquities
- Indians of South America > Funeral customs and rites > Andes Region > Congresses
- Andes Region > Antiquities > Congresses
- Indians of South America > Andes Region > Antiquities > Congresses
- Indians of South America > Antiquities
- Conference proceedings
- Burial > Andes Region > Congresses
- Genre/Form
- Conference proceedings.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Behavior and belief in ancient Peruvian mortuary practice / John Howland Rowe -- The preceramic Chinchorro mummy complex of northern Chile : context, style, and purpose / Mario A. Rivera -- Mortuary practices in the Alto Magdalena : the social context of the "San Agustín culture" / Robert D. Drennan -- Moche funerary practice / Christopher B. Donnan -- Nasca burial patterns : social structure and mortuary ideoogy / Patrick H. Carmichael -- Where do they rest? The treatment of human offerings and trophies in ancient Peru / John W. Verano -- Tombs for the living ... or ... for the dead : the Osmore ancestors / Jane E. Buikstra -- Mounds of social death : Araucanian funerary rites and political succession / Tom D. Dillehay -- "The beautiful grandparents" : Andean ancestor shrines and mortuary ritual as seen through colonial records / Frank Salomon -- The mountain-body metaphor expressed in a Kaatan funeral / Josephy W. Bastien -- Death in the Andes / Patricia J. Lyon -- Andean mortuary practices in perspective / James A. Brown.
- Call Number
- JFE 15-5027
- ISBN
- 9780884023746 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0884023745 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2012450601
- OCLC
- 767959928
- Title
- Tombs for the living : Andean mortuary practices : a symposium at Dumbarton Oaks 12th and 13th October 1991 / Tom D. Dillehay, editor.
- Imprint
- Washington, D.C. : Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 2011.
- Edition
- 1st paper ed.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Dillehay, Tom D.Dumbarton Oaks.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 15-5027