The Nasca

Helaine Silverman, Donald Proulx (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

368 Seiten

2002
Wiley-Blackwell (Verlag)
978-0-631-23224-7 (ISBN)

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This accessible work provides a penetrating examination of one of ancient Peru's most well-known and important civilizations, examining Nasca society, politics, religion and art. It also details misconceptions regarding the Nasca that became canonized in the scholarly literature.

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).

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.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	10.1.2002
Reihe/Serie	The Peoples of America
Verlagsort	Hoboken
Sprache	englisch
Maße	154 x 229 mm
Gewicht	612 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-631-23224-9 / 0631232249
ISBN-13	978-0-631-23224-7 / 9780631232247
Zustand	Neuware