Author : Museo Arqueológico Rafael Larco Herrera
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 17,30 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780500018026
The ancient cultures of Peru - Chavin, Cupisnique, Salinar, Viru, Moche, paracas, Nasca, Lambayeque, Hurai, Chimu and Inca - produced ceramics, textiles, metalwork and sculpture. Published to coincide with an exhibition organized by the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, this volume presents over 160 items from Lima's Larco Collection, each accompanied by explanatory text.
Author : Christopher B. Donnan
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 41,34 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780292716223
"This is the largest collection of Moche portraits that has ever been published. As one of the most remarkable groups of portraits produced by any ancient people, it will be of interest to all connoisseurs and scholars of the world's great art traditions, as well as to students of the Moche and prehistoric Andean peoples."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Elizabeth P. Benson
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 19,31 MB
Release : 2013-06-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0292757956
Propitiating the supernatural forces that could grant bountiful crops or wipe out whole villages through natural disasters was a sacred duty in ancient Peruvian societies, as in many premodern cultures. Ritual sacrifices were considered necessary for this propitiation and for maintaining a proper reciprocal relationship between humans and the supernatural world. The essays in this book examine the archaeological evidence for ancient Peruvian sacrificial offerings of human beings, animals, and objects, as well as the cultural contexts in which the offerings occurred, from around 2500 B.C. until Inca times just before the Spanish Conquest. Major contributions come from the recent archaeological fieldwork of Steve Bourget, Anita Cook, and Alana Cordy-Collins, as well as from John Verano's laboratory work on skeletal material from recent excavations. Mary Frame, who is a weaver as well as a scholar, offers rich new interpretations of Paracas burial garments, and Donald Proulx presents a fresh view of the nature of Nasca warfare. Elizabeth Benson's essay provides a summary of sacrificial practices.
Author : Jorge Luis Delgado
Publisher : Council Oak Books
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 30,61 MB
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 9781571781932
'Andean Awakening' delves beneath the surface of the everyday tourist view of Peru to explore the mysteries of the Inca.
Author : Jeffrey Quilter
Publisher : Peabody Museum Press
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 24,13 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0873654064
Quilter utilizes the Peabody's collection as a means to investigate how the Moche used various media, particularly ceramics, to convey messages about their lives and beliefs. His presentation provides a critical examination and rethinking of many of the commonly held interpretations of Moche artifacts and their imagery. It also raises important questions about art production and its role in this and other ancient and modern cultures. --
Author : Mark Thurner
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 16,80 MB
Release : 2011-02-13
Category : History
ISBN : 0813043174
Mark Thurner here offers a brilliant account of Peruvian historiography, one that makes a pioneering contribution not only to Latin American studies but also to the history of historical thought at large. He traces the contributions of key historians of Peru, from the colonial period through the present, and teases out the theoretical underpinnings of their approaches. He demonstrates how Peruvian historical thought critiques both European history and Anglophone postcolonial theory. And his deeply informed readings of Peru's most influential historians--from Inca Garcilaso de la Vega to Jorge Basadre--are among the most subtle and powerful available in English.
Author : Tanya S. Lenz
Publisher : Findhorn Press (US)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,13 MB
Release : 2016-05
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781844096923
A spiritual adventure offering wisdom teachings, meditations, exercises, initiations and essential practices for healing and transformation.
Author : Carolyn Dean
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 46,57 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780822323679
Analysis of how a religious festival dramatized the subaltern status of indigenous converts and how these converts used this to construct positive colonial identities.
Author : Heidi King
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 37,71 MB
Release : 2012-12-04
Category : Art
ISBN : 0300169795
This title provides an in-depth and authoritative review of feeatherworking traditions in ancient Peru. The book includes a discussion of important recent discoveries, considerations of iconography, and basic technical characteristics of feather works.
Author : Margaret Ann Jackson
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 32,1 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Art
ISBN : 0826343651
This multidisciplinary study analyzes the visual, linguistic, and cultural significance of the imagery used by the Moche in their ceramics and murals.
