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Sex, Death, and Sacrifice in Moche Religion and Visual Culture
Language: en
Pages: 335
Authors: Steve Bourget
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-06-28 - Publisher: University of Texas Press

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The Moche people who inhabited the north coast of Peru between approximately 100 and 800 AD were perhaps the first ancient Andean society to attain state-level
Playing with Things
Language: en
Pages: 263
Authors: Mary Weismantel
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-08-17 - Publisher: University of Texas Press

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More than a thousand years ago on the north coast of Peru, Indigenous Moche artists created a large and significant corpus of sexually explicit ceramic works of
Moche Art and Visual Culture in Ancient Peru
Language: en
Pages: 250
Authors: Margaret Ann Jackson
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008 - Publisher: UNM Press

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This multidisciplinary study analyzes the visual, linguistic, and cultural significance of the imagery used by the Moche in their ceramics and murals.
Sacrifice, Violence, and Ideology Among the Moche
Language: en
Pages: 464
Authors: Steve Bourget
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-05-03 - Publisher: University of Texas Press

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In a special precinct dedicated to ritual sacrifice at Huaca de la Luna on the north coast of Peru, about seventy-five men were killed and dismembered, their re
Rhetorics of the Americas
Language: en
Pages: 271
Authors: D. Baca
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-12-07 - Publisher: Springer

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This is the first work to begin to fill a gap: an understanding of discourse aimed to persuade within the Pre-Columbian Americas. The contributors in this colle