Mummies and mortuary monuments : a postprocessual prehistory of central Andean social organization

Author(s)

• Isbell, William Harris

Bibliographic Information

Mummies and mortuary monuments : a postprocessual prehistory of central Andean social organization

William H. Isbell

University of Texas Press, 1997

1st ed

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [317]-357) and indexes

Contents of Works

• On knowing the past
• Royal mummies of Inca Cuzco
• Ancestor mummies in Huarochirí
• Competing theories of Ayllu origins
• The open sepulcher
• Distribution of open sepulcher monuments
• The open sepulchers of Chota-Cutervo
• Origin of the Ayllu and the Andean past

Details

• NCID: BA35692130
• ISBN:
  • 0292738706
• LCCN: 96051237
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Austin
• Pages/Volumes: xvii, 371 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : F3429
  • DC21 : 306.9/0985
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Incas -- Funeral customs and rites
  • LCSH : Indians of South America -- Andes Region -- Funeral customs and rites
  • LCSH : Incas -- Antiquities
  • LCSH : Indians of South America -- Andes Region -- Antiquities
  • LCSH : Sepulchral monuments -- Andes Region -- History
  • LCSH : Social structure -- Andes Region -- History
  • LCSH : Andes Region -- Antiquities