Author: Pedro Palao PonsPublisher:
ISBN: 9788497644495
Category :
Languages : es
Pages : 189
Book Description
El enigma de las momias en el mundo
Author: Pedro Palao PonsPublisher:
ISBN: 9788497644495
Category :
Languages : es
Pages : 189
Book Description
El enigma de las momias
Author: David E. SentinellaPublisher:
ISBN: 9788496200210
Category :
Languages : es
Pages : 259
Book Description
El Enigma de las momias
Author: Heather PringlePublisher:
ISBN: 9788425337086
Category : Antropología forense
Languages : es
Pages : 320
Book Description
El enigma de la momia
Author: Empires of the Dead
Author: Christopher HeaneyPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0197542557
Category : Anthropological museums and collections
Languages : en
Pages : 397
Book Description
"When the Smithsonian Institution's first Hall of Physical Anthropology opened in 1965, the first thing visitors saw were 160 Andean skulls fixed to the wall like a mushroom cloud. Empires of the Dead explains that Skull Wall's origins, and this introduction establishes its scope: a history from 1532 to the present of how the collection of Inca mummies, Andean crania, and a pre-Hispanic surgery named trepanation made "ancient Peruvians" the single largest population in the Smithsonian and many other museums in Peru, the Americas, and the world. This introduction argues that the Hall of Physical Anthropology displayed these collections while hiding their foundation on Indigenous, Andean, and Peruvian cultures of healing and science. These "Peruvian ancestors" of American anthropology reveal the importance of Indigenous and Latin American science and empire to global history, and their relevance to debates over museums and Indigenous human remains today"--
El enigma de la momia$Bildtonträger
Author: Museo Arqueológico Provincial. AlicantePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : es
Pages : 995
Book Description
A Dictionary of Archaeology
Author: Ian ShawPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0470751967
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 736
Book Description
This dictionary provides those studying or working in archaeology with a complete reference to the field.
The White Rock
Author: Hugh ThomsonPublisher: Abrams
ISBN: 1468302302
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
An explorer searches the Peruvian Andes for a lost ruin in “a gem of a book [that] transcends the travel writing genre” with fascinating Inca history (Los Angeles Times). A New York Times Notable Book With the backdrop of the ever-intriguing Andes mountains, Hugh Thomson explores the intoxicating history of the Inca people and their heartland. The author, an acclaimed documentary filmmaker and explorer, expertly weaves accounts of his own discoveries and brushes with danger with the history of those who preceded him—including the explorer Hiram Bingham, who discovered Machu Picchu; the twentieth century South American photographer, Martín Chambi; the poet Pablo Neruda; and the Spanish conquistadores who destroyed the Inca civilization—and the eccentric characters he meets on his travels. Following in the footsteps of the explorers Gene Savoy and Hiram Bingham, Thomson set off into the jungle to find the lost city of Llactapat. This is the story of his journey to discover it via the interconnecting paths the Incas laid across the Andes.
Ancient South America
Author: Karen Olsen BruhnsPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521863856
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 485
Book Description
Ancient South America, 2nd edition is completely revised and updated to reflect archaeological discoveries and insights made in the past three decades. It features the full panorama of the South American past from the first inhabitants to the European invasions.
Cultures of Devotion
Author: Frank GrazianoPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195171306
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Spanish America has produced numerous "folk saints" -- venerated figures regarded as miraculous but not officially recognized by the Catholic Church. Some of these have huge national cults with hundreds -- perhaps millions -- of devotees. In this book Frank Graziano provides the first overview in any language of these saints, offering in-depth studies of the beliefs, rituals, and devotions surrounding seven representative figures. These case studies are illuminated by comparisons to some hundred additional saints from contemporary Spanish America. Among the six primary cases are Difunta Correa, at whose shrines devotees offer bottles of water and used auto parts in commemoration of her tragic death in the Argentinean desert. Gaucho Gil is only one of many gaucho saints, whose characteristic narrative involves political injustice and Robin-Hood crimes on behalf of the exploited people. The widespread cult of the Mexican saint Nino Fidencio is based on faith healing performed by devotees who channel his powers. Nino Compadrito is an elegantly dressed skeleton of a child, whose miraculous powers are derived in part from an Andean belief in the power of the skull of one who has suffered a tragic death. Graziano draws upon site visits and extensive interviews with devotees, archival material, media reports, and documentaries to produce vivid portraits of these fascinating popular movements. In the process he sheds new light on the often fraught relationship between orthodox Catholicism and folk beliefs and on an important and little-studied facet of the dynamic culture of contemporary Spanish America.