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Rituals of the Past

Rituals of the Past Prehispanic and Colonial Case Studies in Andean Archaeology / [electronic resource] : edited by Silvana A. Rosenfeld and Stefanie L. Bautista. - Boulder : University Press of Colorado, 2017. - 1 online resource (pages cm) - Book collections on Project MUSE. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

An archaeology of rituals / The nature of ritual space at Chavín de Huantar / Not just a pyramid scheme : diversity in ritual architecture at Chavín de Huantar / From ritual to ideology : ritual activity and artistic representations in the northern highlands of Peru in the formative period / Architecture and ritual practices at Huaca A of Pampa de las Llamas- Moxeke / Territoriality, monumentality, and religion in formative period Nepeña, coastal Áncash / Ritual practice at the end of empire : evidence of an abandonment ceremony from Pataraya, a Wari outpost on the south coast of Peru / From the domestic to the formal : a view of daily and ceremonial practices from Cerro de Oro during the early middle horizon / The demise of the ruling elites : terminal rituals in the pyramid complexes of Panquilma, Peruvian central coast / Reconstructing early colonial Andean ritual practice at Pucará, Peru : an architectural approach / Ritual as inter-action with non-humans : pre-hispanic mountain pass shrines in the southern Andes / Mining, ritual, and social memory : an exploration of toponymy in the Ica Valley, Peru / Rituals of the past : final comments / Silvana A. Rosenfeld and Stefanie L. Bautista -- John Rick -- Daniel Contreras -- Yoshio Onuki -- Rafael Vega-Centeno -- David Chicoine, Hugo Ikebara, and Koichiro Shibata, and Matthew Helmer -- -- Matthew Edwards -- Francesca Fernandini and Rafael Ruales -- Camila Capriata Estrada and Enrique Lopez-Hurtado -- Sarah Abraham -- Axel Nielsen, Carlos Angiorama, and Florencia Avila -- Hendrik van Gijseghem and Verity Whalen -- Jerry D. Moore.

"Explores various methods archaeologists use to identify ritual in the material record and discusses the influence it had on the formation, reproduction, and transformation of community in past Andean societies. How ritual influenced, permeated, and altered political authority, economic production, shamanic practice, and landscape cognition over 3,000 years"--Provided by publisher.

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Excavations (Archaeology)--Peru.
Excavations (Archaeology)--Andes Region.
Indians of South America--Rites and ceremonies.--Peru
Indians of South America--Rites and ceremonies.--Andes Region


Peru--Antiquities.
Andes Region--Antiquities.


Electronic books.

F2229 / .R56 2017

985/.01