31/12/2001English143, Includes numerous figures, photographs, maps and plans.S982BAR International Series
Mortuary Practices and Ritual Associations
Shamanic Elements in Prehistoric Funerary Contexts in South America
Edited by John E. Staller and Elizabeth J. Currie
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This volume has its origins in a symposium on South American Prehistory that took place at the Chicago 64th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology in 1999. The 11 papers here reveal a pre-Hispanic world rich in metaphor and symbolismrelating human beings to their origins and ancestral past, the wider natural world and their place within it. The shamanic world is one wherein symbols and symbolic behaviour are actively employed in mediating with the ‘Otherworld’ and its visionaryinhabitants. The sites visited include Macchu Picchu, the Moche Mountains, and Coastal Ecuador.
