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Empires of the Dead
Inca Mummies and the Peruvian Ancestors of American Anthropology
Buch von Christopher Heaney
Sprache: Englisch

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This book explains why Inca mummies and "ancient Peruvian" skulls filled museums around the world, from 1532 to the present, and why they tell us more about the colonial violence of science than their more famous Egyptian cousins.
This book explains why Inca mummies and "ancient Peruvian" skulls filled museums around the world, from 1532 to the present, and why they tell us more about the colonial violence of science than their more famous Egyptian cousins.
Über den Autor
Christopher Heaney is an Assistant Professor of History at the Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of Cradle of Gold: The Story of Hiram Bingham, a Real-Life Indiana Jones and the Search for Machu Picchu. He has written for the New Yorker, the Atlantic, the New York Times, and other publications, and was the co-founder of The Appendix, a journal of narrative and experimental history.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • A Note on Orthography

  • A Note on Images

  • Introduction: Death's Heads: Humanity's Peruvian Ancestors at the Smithsonian

  • Part 1: Opening, 1525-1795

  • 1. Curing Incas: Andean Lifeways and the Pre-Hispanic Imperial Dead

  • 2. Embalming Incas: Huayna Capac's Yllapa and the Spanish Collection of Empire

  • 3. Mummifying Incas: Colonial Grave-Opening and the Racialization of Ancient Peru

  • Part 2: Exporting, 1780-1893

  • 4. Trading Incas: San Martín's Mummy and the Peruvian Independence of the Andean Dead

  • 5. Mismeasuring Incas: Samuel George Morton and the American School of Peruvian Skull Science

  • 6. Mining Incas: The Peruvian Necropolis at the World's Fairs

  • Part 3: Healing, 1863-1965

  • 7. Trepanning Incas: Ancient Peruvian Surgery and American Anthropology's Monroe Doctrine

  • 8. Decapitating Incas: Julio César Tello and Peruvian Anthropology's Healing

  • 9. The Three Burials of Julio César Tello; or, Skull Walls Revisited

  • Epilogue: Afterlives: Museums of the American Inca

  • Acknowledgments

  • Notes

  • Bibliography

  • Index

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2023
Genre: Geschichte, Importe
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Buch
Inhalt: Gebunden
ISBN-13: 9780197542552
ISBN-10: 0197542557
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Heaney, Christopher
Hersteller: Hurst & Co.
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: preigu, Ansas Meyer, Lengericher Landstr. 19, D-49078 Osnabrück, mail@preigu.de
Maße: 251 x 162 x 35 mm
Von/Mit: Christopher Heaney
Erscheinungsdatum: 08.08.2023
Gewicht: 0,713 kg
Artikel-ID: 126700864
Über den Autor
Christopher Heaney is an Assistant Professor of History at the Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of Cradle of Gold: The Story of Hiram Bingham, a Real-Life Indiana Jones and the Search for Machu Picchu. He has written for the New Yorker, the Atlantic, the New York Times, and other publications, and was the co-founder of The Appendix, a journal of narrative and experimental history.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • A Note on Orthography

  • A Note on Images

  • Introduction: Death's Heads: Humanity's Peruvian Ancestors at the Smithsonian

  • Part 1: Opening, 1525-1795

  • 1. Curing Incas: Andean Lifeways and the Pre-Hispanic Imperial Dead

  • 2. Embalming Incas: Huayna Capac's Yllapa and the Spanish Collection of Empire

  • 3. Mummifying Incas: Colonial Grave-Opening and the Racialization of Ancient Peru

  • Part 2: Exporting, 1780-1893

  • 4. Trading Incas: San Martín's Mummy and the Peruvian Independence of the Andean Dead

  • 5. Mismeasuring Incas: Samuel George Morton and the American School of Peruvian Skull Science

  • 6. Mining Incas: The Peruvian Necropolis at the World's Fairs

  • Part 3: Healing, 1863-1965

  • 7. Trepanning Incas: Ancient Peruvian Surgery and American Anthropology's Monroe Doctrine

  • 8. Decapitating Incas: Julio César Tello and Peruvian Anthropology's Healing

  • 9. The Three Burials of Julio César Tello; or, Skull Walls Revisited

  • Epilogue: Afterlives: Museums of the American Inca

  • Acknowledgments

  • Notes

  • Bibliography

  • Index

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2023
Genre: Geschichte, Importe
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Buch
Inhalt: Gebunden
ISBN-13: 9780197542552
ISBN-10: 0197542557
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Heaney, Christopher
Hersteller: Hurst & Co.
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: preigu, Ansas Meyer, Lengericher Landstr. 19, D-49078 Osnabrück, mail@preigu.de
Maße: 251 x 162 x 35 mm
Von/Mit: Christopher Heaney
Erscheinungsdatum: 08.08.2023
Gewicht: 0,713 kg
Artikel-ID: 126700864
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