Mortuary Practices and Ritual Associations: Shamanic Elements in Prehistoric Funerary Contexts in South America
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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. Front Cover Title Page Copyright TABLE OF CONTENTS Editors' Note Contributors' Affiliation in Order of the Papers Introduction The Rise of Religious Routinization: The Study of Changes from Shaman to Priestly Elite Shamanic Cosmology Embodied in Valdivia VII-VIII Mortuary Contexts from the Site of La Emerenciana, Ecuador Fruitful Death: The Symbolic Meanings of Cucurbits in the Late Formative Period of Coastal Ecuador Making Spiritual Contact: Snuff Tubes and Other Mortuary Objects from Coastal Ecuador Manteño Ceremony and Symbolism: Mortuary Practices and Ritual Activities at López Viejo, Manabí, Ecuador Gender Relationships and Symbolism in some Moche Sacrificial and Mortuary Contexts Speculations on Moche Mountain Scenes Religious Ideology and Mortuary Ritual at Machu Picchu The Young Lord of La Falda, Markers of a Social Persona in Early Contact Tilcara Ritual and Symbolism in Mortuary Behavior. Bio-Cultural, Chronological and Regional Facts in Northwestern Argentina
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