Empires of the dead : Inca mummies and the Peruvian ancestors of American anthropology
| 1. Verfasser: |
Heaney, Christopher,
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| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2023].
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| Umfang/Format: |
xiv, 358 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9780197542552 |
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| 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.
