Matthew C. Velasco

The Mountain Embodied

Head Shaping and Personhood in the Ancient Andes

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A study of the ancient practice of Andean head shaping and its cultural connotations.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Texas Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juli 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 580g
• ISBN-13: 9781477331514
• ISBN-10: 1477331514
• Artikelnr.: 71984551

Autorenporträt

Matthew C. Velasco is an assistant professor of anthropology and codirector of the Human and Animal Bone Laboratory at Cornell University.

Inhaltsangabe

A Note on Images
List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Introduction. Of Heads and Mountains
1. The Specter of Ethnicity
2. The Substance of Personhood
3. Emergence and Entombment
4. Embodiment and Life Course
5. Becoming the Mountain
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index