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Tombs for the living : Andean mortuary practices : a symposium at Dumbarton Oaks 12th and 13th October 1991 / Tom D. Dillehay, editor.

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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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Additional Authors
  • Dillehay, Tom D.
  • Dumbarton Oaks.
Description
viii, 425 p. : ill., maps; 23 cm,.
Subject
  • Indians of South America > Funeral customs and rites > Andes Region > Congresses
  • Indians of South America > Andes Region > Antiquities > Congresses
  • Burial > Andes Region > Congresses
  • Andes Region > Antiquities > Congresses
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Behavior and belief in ancient Peruvian mortuary practice / John Howland Rowe -- The preceramic Chinchorro mummy complex of northern Chile / Mario A. Rivera -- Mortuary practices in the Alto Magdalena / Robert D. Drennan -- Moche funerary practice / Christopher B. Donnan -- Nasca burial patterns / Patrick H. Carmichael -- Where do they rest? / John W. Verano -- Tombs for the living ... or ... for the dead / Jane E. Buikstra -- Mounds of social death / Tom D. Dillehay -- "The beautiful grandparents" / 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.
ISBN
9780884023746 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2012450601
OCLC
  • 767959928
  • SCSB-12412862
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Harvard Library