The Nasca

1. Auflage 2002
ISBN: 978-0-631-23224-7
Verlag: Wiley

Buch, Englisch, 368 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 533 g

This well-illustrated, concise text will serve as a benchmark study of the Nasca people and culture for years to come.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Silverman, Helaine

Proulx, Donald

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.

Über Autor(innen)

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).