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1 online resource (pages cm) |
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text file |
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Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
An archaeology of rituals / Silvana A. Rosenfeld and Stefanie L. Bautista -- Nature of ritual space at Chavín de Huantar / John Rick -- Not just a pyramid scheme : diversity in ritual architecture at Chavín de Huantar / Daniel Contreras -- From ritual to ideology : ritual activity and artistic representations in the northern highlands of Peru in the formative period / Yoshio Onuki -- Architecture and ritual practices at Huaca A of Pampa de las Llamas- Moxeke / Rafael Vega-Centeno -- Territoriality, monumentality, and religion in formative period Nepeña, coastal Áncash / David Chicoine, Hugo Ikebara, and Koichiro Shibata, and Matthew Helmer -- Ritual practice at the end of empire : evidence of an abandonment ceremony from Pataraya, a Wari outpost on the south coast of Peru / -- Matthew Edwards -- From the domestic to the formal : a view of daily and ceremonial practices from Cerro de Oro during the early middle horizon / Francesca Fernandini and Rafael Ruales -- Demise of the ruling elites : terminal rituals in the pyramid complexes of Panquilma, Peruvian central coast / Camila Capriata Estrada and Enrique Lopez-Hurtado -- Reconstructing early colonial Andean ritual practice at Pucará, Peru : an architectural approach / Sarah Abraham -- Ritual as inter-action with non-humans : pre-hispanic mountain pass shrines in the southern Andes / Axel Nielsen, Carlos Angiorama, and Florencia Avila -- Mining, ritual, and social memory : an exploration of toponymy in the Ica Valley, Peru / Hendrik van Gijseghem and Verity Whalen -- Rituals of the past : final comments / Jerry D. Moore. |
| Access |
Open Access Unrestricted online access |
| Summary |
"Explores various methods archaeologists use to identify ritual in the material record and discusses the influence it had on the formation, reproduction, and transformation of community in past Andean societies. How ritual influenced, permeated, and altered political authority, economic production, shamanic practice, and landscape cognition over 3,000 years"--Provided by publisher. |
| Local Note |
Project Muse Project Muse Open Access |
| Subject |
Excavations (Archaeology) -- Peru.
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Excavations (Archaeology) |
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Peru. |
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Excavations (Archaeology) -- Andes Region.
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Andes Region. |
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Indians of South America -- Peru -- Rites and ceremonies.
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Indians of South America. |
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Rites and ceremonies. |
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Indians of South America -- Andes Region -- Rites and ceremonies.
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Peru -- Antiquities.
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Antiquities. |
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Andes Region -- Antiquities.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books. .
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| Added Author |
Bautista, Stefanie L., editor.
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Rosenfeld, Silvana A., editor.
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Project Muse, distributor.
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| ISBN |
9781607325963 |
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1607325969 |
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9781607325956 cloth |
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1607325950 |
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