Empires of the dead : Inca mummies and the Peruvian ancestors of American anthropology

1. Verfasser: Heaney, Christopher, , [VerfasserIn]
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2023].
Umfang/Format: xiv, 358 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm.
Schlagworte:
National Museum of Natural History (U.S.). > Department of Anthropology > Exhibitions.
Anthropological museums and collections > United States.
Ethnoscience > Peru.
Trephining > Peru > History.
Ethnology > Peru.
Parallelausgabe: Heaney, Christopher., Empires of the dead (Online version:) | ISSN: 9780197542576
Inhaltsangabe:
  • Introduction: Death's Heads: Humanity's Peruvian Ancestors at the Smithsonian
  • Part 1. Opening, 1525-1795. Curing Incas: Andean Lifeways and the Pre-Hispanic Imperial Dead
  • Embalming Incas: Huayna Capac's Yllapa and the Spanish Collection of Empire
  • Mummifying Incas: Colonial Grave-Opening and the Racialization of Ancient Peru
  • Part 2. Exporting, 1780-1893. Trading Incas: San Martín's Mummy and the Peruvian Independence of the Andean Dead
  • Mismeasuring Incas: Samuel George Morton and the American School of Peruvian Skull Science
  • Mining Incas: The Peruvian Necropolis at the World's Fairs
  • Part 3. Healing, 1863-1965. Trepanning Incas: Ancient Peruvian Surgery and American Anthropology's Monroe Doctrine
  • Decapitating Incas: Julio César Tello and Peruvian Anthropology's Healing
  • The Three Burials of Julio César Tello; or, Skull Walls Revisited
  • Epilogue: Afterlives: Museums of the American Inca.

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