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Ritual Sacrifice in Ancient Peru: New Discoveries and Interpretations
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| #665638 in Books | 2001-07 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.04 x.70 x5.98l,.81 | File type: PDF | 288 pages||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| The Blood is the Life, Mr. Renfield|By Joseph H. Woodside|Always and everywhere, humans used dead people in culturally distinctive ways so that they remained members of society who provided services to the living. This book cites plenty of evidence that ancient Peruvian cultures such as Cupisnique, Nazca, Moche, Huari, and Inca went even further by physically incorporating the||"This is indeed a significant contribution that contains an immense amount of new evidence. . . . The authors offer plentiful support for the view that human sacrifice is a very ancient and important, though shocking, Andean tradition." (William J Conklin, Res
Propitiating the supernatural forces that could grant bountiful crops or wipe out whole villages through natural disasters was a sacred duty in ancient Peruvian societies, as in many premodern cultures. Ritual sacrifices were considered necessary for this propitiation and for maintaining a proper reciprocal relationship between humans and the supernatural world.
The essays in this book examine the archaeological evidence for ancient Peruvian sacrificial offering...
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