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Mortuary Practices and Ritual Associations

Mortuary Practices and Ritual Associations

Paperback

Series: BAR International, Book 982

ArchaeologyDeath & Dying

ISBN10: 184171268X
ISBN13: 9781841712680
Publisher: British Archaeological Reports
Published: Dec 31 2001
Pages: 150
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.41 Width: 8.27 Depth: 11.69
Language: English

This volume has its origins in a symposium on South American Prehistory that took place at the Chicago 64th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology in 1999. The 11 papers here reveal a pre-Hispanic world rich in metaphor and symbolism relating human beings to their origins and ancestral past, the wider natural world and their place within it. The shamanic world is one wherein symbols and symbolic behaviour are actively employed in mediating with the 'Otherworld' and its visionary inhabitants. The sites visited include Macchu Picchu, the Moche Mountains, and Coastal Ecuador.

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