The Nasca

Helaine Silverman, Donald Proulx (Autoren)

Software / Digital Media

360 Seiten

2008
Wiley-Blackwell (Hersteller)
978-0-470-69338-4 (ISBN)

Infos

* Traces the history of archaeological research to sort out fact from fiction. * Includes new data based on years of fieldwork by the authors. * Examines Nasca society, politics, art, and religion. * Debunks the popular "aliens theory" of how the Nasca lines were created. .

Autor

Helaine Silverman is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is the author of Cahuachi in the Ancient Nasca World (1993) and various articles and chapters on ancient Nasca society. Donald A. Proulx is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He is the author of numerous publications on Nasca culture including Local Differences and Time Differences in Nasca Pottery (1968) and The Nasca Style (1983).

Inhalt

Preface. Acknowledgments. 1. From Pots to People. 2. Emergence and Evolution of the Nasca Ceramic Tradition. 3. Life in the Desert. 4. We, the Nasca. 5. The Inhibited Landscape. 6. Symbolic Expressions of the Natural and Supernatural World. 7. The Geoglyphs of the Rio Grande de Nazca Drainage. 8. Religion and Ritual. 9. Headhunting and Warfare. 10. Nasca Sociopolitical Organization. 11. After Nasca. Bibliography. Index.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.4.2008
• Verlagsort: Hoboken
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 156 x 234 mm
• Gewicht: 630 g
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• ISBN-10: 0-470-69338-X / 047069338X
• ISBN-13: 978-0-470-69338-4 / 9780470693384
• Zustand: Neuware