This well-illustrated, concise text will serve as a benchmark study of the Nasca people and culture for years to come.
Das E-Book The Nasca wird angeboten von John Wiley & Sons und wurde mit folgenden Begriffen kategorisiert:
Archaeology, Archäologie, Geschichte, Geschichte / Lateinamerika, karibischer Raum, History, Latin American & Caribbean History
Table of Content
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 Supernatural
World.
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.
About the author
Helaine Silverman is Associate Professor of Anthropology
at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is the
author of Cahuachi in the Ancient Nasca World (1993) and
various articles and chapters on ancient Nasca society.
Donald A. Proulx is Professor of Anthropology at the
University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He is the author of
numerous publications on Nasca culture including Local
Differences and Time Differences in Nasca Pottery (1968) and
The Nasca Style (1983).
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