Description
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.
Author: John E. Staller
Publisher: British Archaeological Reports Oxford Ltd
Published: 12/31/2001
Pages: 150
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 11.69h x 8.27w x 0.41d
ISBN13: 9781841712680
ISBN10: 184171268X
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Archaeology
- Social Science | Death & Dying
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