Silverman / Proulx The Nasca

1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-470-69266-0
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 360 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Peoples of America

This well-illustrated, concise text will serve as a benchmark study of the Nasca people and culture for years to come.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Silverman, Helaine

Proulx, Donald

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface.
Acknowledgments.
1. From Pots to People.
2. Emergence and Evolution of the Nasca Ceramic Tradition.
3. Life in the Desert.
4. We, the Nasca.
5. The Inhibited Landscape.
6. Symbolic Expressions of the Natural and SupernaturalWorld.
7. The Geoglyphs of the Rio Grande de Nazca Drainage.
8. Religion and Ritual.
9. Headhunting and Warfare.
10. Nasca Sociopolitical Organization.
11. After Nasca.
Bibliography.
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Helaine Silverman is Associate Professor of Anthropologyat the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is theauthor of Cahuachi in the Ancient Nasca World (1993) andvarious articles and chapters on ancient Nasca society.
Donald A. Proulx is Professor of Anthropology at theUniversity of Massachusetts at Amherst. He is the author ofnumerous publications on Nasca culture including LocalDifferences and Time Differences in Nasca Pottery (1968) andThe Nasca Style (1983).