| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xiii, 291 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 29 cm |
| Note |
Papers originally presented at the Fourth D.J. Sibley Family Conference held at the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Texas at Austin in November 2003. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Iconography meets archaeology / Elizabeth P. Benson -- Sacrifices and ceremonial calendars in societies of the central Andes : a reconsideration / Anne Marie Hocquenghem -- Ulluchu : an elusive fruit / Donna McClelland -- Moche masking traditions / Christopher B. Donnan -- Convergent catastrophe and the demise of Dos Cabezas : environmental change and regime change in ancient Peru / Michael E. Moseley, Christopher B. Donnan, and David K. Keefer -- Forensic iconography : the case of the Moche giants / Alana Cordy-Collins and Charles F. Merbs -- Moche forms for shaping sheet metal / Christopher B. Donnan, David A. Scott, and Todd Bracken -- Moche art style in the Santa Valley : between being "à la mode" and developing a provincial identity / Claude Chapdelaine -- The priests of the bicephalus arc : tombs and effigies found in Huaca de la Luna and their relation to Moche rituals / Santiago Uceda -- The Moche people : genetic perspective on their sociopolitical composition and organization / Izumi Shimada ... [et al.] -- Communality and diversity in Moche human sacrifice / John W. Verano -- Art and Moche martial arts / Jeffrey Quilter -- Moche textile production on the Peruvian north coast : a contextual analysis / Jean-François Millaire -- Spiders and spider decapitators in Moche iconography : identification from the contexts of Sipán, antecedents and symbolism / Néstor Ignacio Alva Meneses -- The third man : identity and rulership in Moche archaeology and visual culture / Steve Bourget. |
| Subject |
Mochica Indians -- Antiquities -- Congresses.
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Mochica art -- Congresses.
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Excavations (Archaeology) -- Peru -- Moche River Valley -- Congresses.
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Moche River Valley (Peru) -- Antiquities -- Congresses.
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| Added Author |
Bourget, Steve, 1956-
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Jones, Kimberly L., 1979-
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| ISBN |
9780292718678 cloth alkaline paper |
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0292718675 cloth alkaline paper |
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