Death and Conversion in the Andes Book [PDF] Download

• Publisher : Unknown Publisher
• File Size : 27,7 Mb
• Release Date : 15 August 2022

This work examines death rituals in South America and how traditional native American beliefs fell to the wayside when Christian rituals came into power.

• Publisher : BRILL
• File Size : 52,7 Mb
• Release Date : 30 October 2014

Space and Conversion in Global Perspective examines conversion in connection with spatial setting, mobility, and interiority. The approach is global and encompasses multiple religions. Conversion emerges as a powerful force

• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
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• Release Date : 30 May 2024

This volume, with essays by leading archaeologists and prehistorians, considers how prehistoric humans attempted to recognise, understand and conceptualise death.

• Publisher : University of Arizona Press
• File Size : 52,5 Mb
• Release Date : 01 December 2011

When the Spanish colonized the Americas, they brought many cultural beliefs and practices with them, not the least of which involved death and dying. The essays in this volume explore

• Publisher : Oxford University Press
• File Size : 32,9 Mb
• Release Date : 30 May 2024

"When the Smithsonian Institution's first Hall of Physical Anthropology opened in 1965, the first thing visitors saw were 160 Andean skulls fixed to the wall like a mushroom cloud. Empires of the

• Publisher : BRILL
• File Size : 34,8 Mb
• Release Date : 03 January 2018

A survey of the latest scholarship on Catholic missions between the 16th and 18th centuries, this collection of fourteen essays offers a global view of the organization, finances, personnel, and

• Publisher : University of Texas Press
• File Size : 46,9 Mb
• Release Date : 17 January 2018

After the Spanish victories over the Inca claimed Tawantinsuyu for Charles V in the 1530s, native Andeans undertook a series of perilous trips from Peru to the royal court in

• Publisher : BRILL
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• Release Date : 06 May 2024

Both in our time and in the past, death was one of the most important aspects of anyone’s life. The early modern period saw drastic changes in rites of

• Publisher : Routledge
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• Release Date : 12 November 2012

Ancient Alterity in the Andes is the first major treatment on ancient alterity: how people in the past regarded others. At least since the 1970s, alterity has been an influential

• Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
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• Release Date : 30 May 2024

"A student-friendly text that tells the story of the development of the Andean republics and their people by emphasizing the themes of continuity and change over time. Henderson presents a