The art and archaeology of the Moche : an ancient Andean society of the Peruvian north coast / edited by Steve Bourget and Kimberly L. Jones

Object Details

Author

D.J. Sibley Family Conference (4th : 2003 : Austin, Tex.)

Bourget, Steve 1956-

Jones, Kimberly L. 1979-

Papers originally presented at the Fourth D.J. Sibley Family Conference held at the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Texas at Austin in November 2003.

Contents

Iconography meets archaeology / Elizabeth P. Benson -- Sacrifices and ceremonial calendars in societies of the central Andes : a reconsideration / Anne Marie Hocquenghem -- Ulluchu : an elusive fruit / Donna McClelland -- Moche masking traditions / Christopher B. Donnan -- Convergent catastrophe and the demise of Dos Cabezas : environmental change and regime change in ancient Peru / Michael E. Moseley, Christopher B. Donnan, and David K. Keefer -- Forensic iconography : the case of the Moche giants / Alana Cordy-Collins and Charles F. Merbs -- Moche forms for shaping sheet metal / Christopher B. Donnan, David A. Scott, and Todd Bracken -- Moche art style in the Santa Valley : between being "à la mode" and developing a provincial identity / Claude Chapdelaine -- The priests of the bicephalus arc : tombs and effigies found in Huaca de la Luna and their relation to Moche rituals / Santiago Uceda -- The Moche people : genetic perspective on their sociopolitical composition and organization / Izumi Shimada ... [et al.] -- Communality and diversity in Moche human sacrifice / John W. Verano -- Art and Moche martial arts / Jeffrey Quilter -- Moche textile production on the Peruvian north coast : a contextual analysis / Jean-François Millaire -- Spiders and spider decapitators in Moche iconography : identification from the contexts of Sipán, antecedents and symbolism / Néstor Ignacio Alva Meneses -- The third man : identity and rulership in Moche archaeology and visual culture / Steve Bourget

2008

Type

Congresses

Physical description

xiii, 291 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps ; 29 cm

Place

Peru

Moche River Valley

Moche River Valley (Peru)

Smithsonian Libraries

Topic

Mochica Indians--Antiquities

Mochica art

Excavations (Archaeology)

Antiquities

Record ID

siris_sil_918402

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