Research Catalog

Title

Violence, ritual, and the Wari empire : a social bioarchaeology of imperialism in the ancient Andes / Tiffiny A. Tung ; foreword by Clark Spencer Larsen.

Author

Tung, Tiffiny A.

Publication

Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c2012.

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Description

xxiv, 244 p. : ill., maps; 25 cm.

Series Statement

Bioarchaeological interpretations of the human past : local, regional, and global perspectives

Uniform Title

• Project Muse UPCC books.
• Bioarchaeological interpretations of the human past.

Alternative Title

Social bioarchaeology of imperialism in the ancient Andes

Subject

• Violence > history
• Paleontology
• History, Medieval
• Indians, South American > history
• Archaeology
• Huari Indians > Antiquities
• Huari Indians > Rites and ceremonies
• Social structure > Peru
• Human remains (Archaeology) > Peru
• Human skeleton > Analysis
• Imperialism > Social aspects > Peru
• Social archaeology > Peru
• Excavations (Archaeology) > Peru
• Human skeleton > Analysis > Peru
• Peru

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 216-236) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction to Wari -- Bioarchaeology of imperialism and violence -- The Wari empire in the Andean world -- Wari community organization : demography, migration, and mortuary treatment -- Violence and skeletal trauma among Wari communities -- Corporeal icons of Wari imperialism : human trophy heads and their representations -- Conclusions : life and death in the Wari world.

ISBN

• 9780813037677 (alk. paper)
• 0813037670 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2011037498

OCLC

711045472

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library