The book investigates its extraordinary progress from a small Andean society in southern Peru to its rapid demise little more than a century later at the hands of the Spanish conquerors.--Résumé de l'éditeur.
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Living with the Dead in the Andes
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La quatrième de couverture indique: "Traditions of sacrifice exist in almost every human culture and often embody a society's most meaningful religious and symbolic acts. Ritual violence was particularly varied and enduring in the prehistoric South American Andes, where human li…
4e de couv.: Un libro que descubre como ningún otro el pensamiento mesoamericano y aporta una nueva visión de nuestro pasado. Revela una Mesoamérica pluriétnica donde distintas culturas comparten una misma cosmovisión.¿Por qué surgen los olmecas y desaparecen siete siglos despué…
Lightning has evoked a numinous response as well as powerful timeless references and symbols among ancient religions throughout the world. Thunder and lightning have also taken on various symbolic manifestations, some representing primary deities, as in the case of Zeus and Jupi…
Texcoco: prehispanic and colonial perspectives
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Texcoco : Prehispanic and Colonial Perspectives presents an in-depth, highly nuanced historical understanding of this major indigenous Mesoamerican city from the conquest through the present. The book argues for the need to revise conclusions of past scholarship on familiar topi…