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Ritual Violence in the Ancient Andes - Reconstructing Sacrifice on the North Coast of Peru (Hardcover)
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Ritual Violence in the Ancient Andes - Reconstructing Sacrifice on the North Coast of Peru (Hardcover)
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Traditions of sacrifice exist in almost every human culture and
often embody a society’s most meaningful religious and symbolic
acts. Ritual violence was particularly varied and enduring in the
prehistoric South American Andes, where human lives, animals, and
material objects were sacrificed in secular rites or as offerings
to the divine. Spectacular discoveries of sacrificial sites
containing the victims of violent rituals have drawn
ever-increasing attention to ritual sacrifice within Andean
archaeology. Responding to this interest, this volume provides the
first regional overview of ritual killing on the pre-Hispanic north
coast of Peru, where distinct forms and diverse trajectories of
ritual violence developed during the final 1,800 years of
prehistory. Presenting original research that blends empirical
approaches, iconographic interpretations, and contextual analyses,
the contributors address four linked themes—the historical
development and regional variation of north coast sacrifice from
the early first millennium AD to the European conquest; a continuum
of ritual violence that spans people, animals, and objects; the
broader ritual world of sacrifice, including rites both before and
after violent offering; and the use of diverse scientific tools,
archaeological information, and theoretical interpretations to
study sacrifice. This research proposes a wide range of new
questions that will shape the research agenda in the coming
decades, while fostering a nuanced, scientific, and humanized
approach to the archaeology of ritual violence that is applicable
to archaeological contexts around the world.
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