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A state-of-the-art overview of prehistoric Moche culture by an international, multidisciplinary team of scholars who are at the forefront of Moche research.

Table of Contents
  • Preface (Steve Bourget)
  • Introduction (Steve Bourget and Kimberly L. Jones)
  • Chapter 1. Iconography Meets Archaeology (Elizabeth P. Benson)
  • Chapter 2. Sacrifices and Ceremonial Calendars in Societies of the Central Andes: A Reconsideration (Anne Marie Hocquenghem)
  • Chapter 3. Ulluchu: An Elusive Fruit (Donna McClelland)
  • Chapter 4. Moche Masking Traditions (Christopher B. Donnan)
  • Chapter 5. 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)
  • Chapter 6. Forensic Iconography: The Case of the Moche Giants (Alana Cordy-Collins and Charles F. Merbs)
  • Chapter 7. Moche Forms for Shaping Sheet Metal (Christopher B. Donnan, David A. Scott, and Todd Bracken)
  • Chapter 8. Moche Art Style in the Santa Valley: Between being "à la Mode" and Developing a Provincial Identity (Claude Chapdelaine)
  • Chapter 9. The Priests of the Bicephalus Arc: Tombs and Effigies Found in Huaca de la Luna and Their Relation to Moche Rituals (Santiago Uceda)
  • Chapter 10. The Moche People: Genetic Perspective on Their Sociopolitical Composition and Organization (Izumi Shimada, Ken-ichi Shinoda, Walter Alva, Steve Bourget, Claude Chapdelaine, and Santiago Uceda)
  • Chapter 11. Communality and Diversity in Moche Human Sacrifice (John W. Verano)
  • Chapter 12. Art and Moche Martial Arts (Jeffrey Quilter)
  • Chapter 13. Moche Textile Production on the Peruvian North Coast: A Contextual Analysis (Jean-François Millaire)
  • Chapter 14. Spiders and Spider Decapitators in Moche Iconography: Identification from the Contexts of Sipán, Antecedents and Symbolism (Néstor Ignacio Alva Meneses)
  • Chapter 15. The Third Man: Identity and Rulership in Moche Archaeology and Visual Culture (Steve Bourget)
  • Index

The Art and Archaeology of the Moche

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      Publisher: University of Texas Press
      Publication Date: 01/12/2008
      ISBN13: 9780292718678, 978-0292718678
      ISBN10: 0292718675
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A state-of-the-art overview of prehistoric Moche culture by an international, multidisciplinary team of scholars who are at the forefront of Moche research.

      Table of Contents
      • Preface (Steve Bourget)
      • Introduction (Steve Bourget and Kimberly L. Jones)
      • Chapter 1. Iconography Meets Archaeology (Elizabeth P. Benson)
      • Chapter 2. Sacrifices and Ceremonial Calendars in Societies of the Central Andes: A Reconsideration (Anne Marie Hocquenghem)
      • Chapter 3. Ulluchu: An Elusive Fruit (Donna McClelland)
      • Chapter 4. Moche Masking Traditions (Christopher B. Donnan)
      • Chapter 5. 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)
      • Chapter 6. Forensic Iconography: The Case of the Moche Giants (Alana Cordy-Collins and Charles F. Merbs)
      • Chapter 7. Moche Forms for Shaping Sheet Metal (Christopher B. Donnan, David A. Scott, and Todd Bracken)
      • Chapter 8. Moche Art Style in the Santa Valley: Between being "à la Mode" and Developing a Provincial Identity (Claude Chapdelaine)
      • Chapter 9. The Priests of the Bicephalus Arc: Tombs and Effigies Found in Huaca de la Luna and Their Relation to Moche Rituals (Santiago Uceda)
      • Chapter 10. The Moche People: Genetic Perspective on Their Sociopolitical Composition and Organization (Izumi Shimada, Ken-ichi Shinoda, Walter Alva, Steve Bourget, Claude Chapdelaine, and Santiago Uceda)
      • Chapter 11. Communality and Diversity in Moche Human Sacrifice (John W. Verano)
      • Chapter 12. Art and Moche Martial Arts (Jeffrey Quilter)
      • Chapter 13. Moche Textile Production on the Peruvian North Coast: A Contextual Analysis (Jean-François Millaire)
      • Chapter 14. Spiders and Spider Decapitators in Moche Iconography: Identification from the Contexts of Sipán, Antecedents and Symbolism (Néstor Ignacio Alva Meneses)
      • Chapter 15. The Third Man: Identity and Rulership in Moche Archaeology and Visual Culture (Steve Bourget)
      • Index

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