Steve Bourget

Sacrifice, Violence, and Ideology Among the Moche: The Rise of Social Complexity in Ancient Peru

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

With a comprehensive presentation of the archaeology and visual culture of a key Moche site, this pioneering book investigates why ritual violence and human sacrifice were central to the development of Moche rulership and the reinforcement of social stratification.

Produktdetails

• The William and Bettye Nowlin
• Verlag: University of Texas Press
• Seitenzahl: 463
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 287mm x 229mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 1565g
• ISBN-13: 9781477308738
• ISBN-10: 1477308733
• Artikelnr.: 43893256

Autorenporträt

A world authority on the Moche, Steve Bourget is the author of Sex, Death, and Sacrifice in Moche Religion and Visual Culture and coeditor of The Art and Archaeology of the Moche: An Ancient Andean Society of the Peruvian North Coast.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. A Cultural Landscape
Chapter 2. The Moche
Chapter 3. The Plaza 3A Sacrificial Site
Chapter 4. Platform II
Chapter 5. A Ritual Ecology of Power
Chapter 6. Children and Warriors
Chapter 7. Human Sacrifice and Rulership
Chapter 8. Violence in the Rise of Social Complexity
Notes
Bibliography
Index