Ritual Sacrifice in Ancient Peru

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Elizabeth P. Benson, Anita G. Cook
University of Texas Press, 2001. 7. 15. - 211페이지

Propitiating the supernatural forces that could grant bountiful crops or wipe out whole villages through natural disasters was a sacred duty in ancient Peruvian societies, as in many premodern cultures. Ritual sacrifices were considered necessary for this propitiation and for maintaining a proper reciprocal relationship between humans and the supernatural world.

The essays in this book examine the archaeological evidence for ancient Peruvian sacrificial offerings of human beings, animals, and objects, as well as the cultural contexts in which the offerings occurred, from around 2500 B.C. until Inca times just before the Spanish Conquest. Major contributions come from the recent archaeological fieldwork of Steve Bourget, Anita Cook, and Alana Cordy-Collins, as well as from John Verano's laboratory work on skeletal material from recent excavations. Mary Frame, who is a weaver as well as a scholar, offers rich new interpretations of Paracas burial garments, and Donald Proulx presents a fresh view of the nature of Nasca warfare. Elizabeth Benson's essay provides a summary of sacrificial practices.

 

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Decapitation in Cupisnique
21
Interwoven
55
Ritual Practices at the Moche
93
Ritual Uses of Trophy Heads
119
Huari DShaped Structures Sacrificial Offerings
137
The Physical Evidence of Human Sacrifice
165
Bibliography
185
Index
205
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Alana Cordy-Collins Alva and Donnan ancestor figures Andean animal Antropología architecture associated Ayacucho backbent figure blood body bones bundles burial Cabezas Cahuachi capped cists ceramic ceramic bottle Cerro Cerro Sechín Chavín Cheqo Wasi child child sacrifice Chimú cists Conchopata contexts cultures Cupisnique cut marks Cuzco D-shaped structures decapitation depicted Drawing by Donna embroidered embroideries excavated funerary garments headdress Historia del Perú Huaca Huari Huari sites human sacrifice iconography Inca individuals jars Jequetepeque Lambayeque Lima llama Luna mantle metaphoric Middle Horizon MNAAHP Moche mortuary Museo Nacional Museum mythic Nacional de Arqueología nakaq Necropolis north coast offerings ornaments Pacatnamu Paracas Necropolis Peru Photo by Steve Platform Plaza 3A posture pottery represented sacred Sacrifice Ceremony sacrificial victims sea lions Sipán skeletal skull society Spondylus Spondylus shells Steve Bourget streamers suggests supernatural Tello textiles Tiahuanaco Tomb traits transformation Tule Boat Ceremony Valley Verano vessels W. H. Isbell wearing whistling

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저자 정보 (2001)

Elizabeth P. Benson has published numerous articles, monographs, and catalogue descriptions on the Moche. For many years, she worked with the Robert Woods Bliss Collection of Pre-Columbian Art, first at the National Gallery of Art and then at Dumbarton Oaks, where she installed the collection and established the pre-Columbian publication and fellowship programs. She has also lectured widely and has taught at American University, the Catholic University of America, Columbia University, and the University of Texas at Austin.

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제목Ritual Sacrifice in Ancient Peru
편집자Elizabeth P. Benson, Anita G. Cook
에디션일러스트
발행인University of Texas Press, 2001
ISBN0292708947, 9780292708945
길이211페이지
  
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