Share the story of what Open Access means to you
University of Michigan needs your feedback to better understand how readers are using openly available ebooks. You can help by taking a short, privacy-friendly survey.
Mortuary Practices and Ritual Associations: Shamanic Elements in Prehistoric Funerary Contexts in South America
John E. Staller and Elizabeth J. Currie
You don't have access to this book. Please try to log in with your institution.
Log in
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.
-
Front Cover
-
Title Page
-
Copyright
-
TABLE OF CONTENTS
-
Editors' Note
-
Contributors' Affiliation in Order of the Papers
-
Introduction
-
The Rise of Religious Routinization: The Study of Changes from Shaman to Priestly Elite
-
Shamanic Cosmology Embodied in Valdivia VII-VIII Mortuary Contexts from the Site of La Emerenciana, Ecuador
-
Fruitful Death: The Symbolic Meanings of Cucurbits in the Late Formative Period of Coastal Ecuador
-
Making Spiritual Contact: Snuff Tubes and Other Mortuary Objects from Coastal Ecuador
-
Manteño Ceremony and Symbolism: Mortuary Practices and Ritual Activities at López Viejo, Manabí, Ecuador
-
Gender Relationships and Symbolism in some Moche Sacrificial and Mortuary Contexts
-
Speculations on Moche Mountain Scenes
-
Religious Ideology and Mortuary Ritual at Machu Picchu
-
The Young Lord of La Falda, Markers of a Social Persona in Early Contact Tilcara
-
Ritual and Symbolism in Mortuary Behavior. Bio-Cultural, Chronological and Regional Facts in Northwestern Argentina
Citable Link
Published: 2001
Publisher: BAR Publishing
- 9781841712680 (paperback)
- 9781407353340 (ebook)
BAR Number: S982