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Sacred Matter - Animacy and Authority in the Americas

English · Hardback

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Sacred Matter: Animacy and Authority in the Americas examines animism in Pre-Columbian America, focusing on how objects and places played central social roles in practices that expressed and sanctified political authority in the Andes, Amazon, and Mesoamerica.

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Steve Kosiba

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Authors Thomas B. F. Cummins, John Wayne Janusek, Steve Kosiba
Assisted by Thomas B. F. Cummins (Editor), John Wayne Janusek (Editor), Steve Kosiba (Editor)
Publisher Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 30.04.2021
 
EAN 9780884024668
ISBN 978-0-88402-466-8
No. of pages 474
Dimensions 289 mm x 226 mm x 34 mm
Weight 1722 g
Illustrations 31 photos, 140 color photos, 32 illus., 12 color illus., 14 maps
Series Dumbarton Oaks Pre-Columbian Symposia and Colloquia
Pre-Columbian Symposia and Colloquia
Subjects Humanities, art, music > History > Pre and early history
Non-fiction book > History > Pre and early history, antiquity

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