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Death and the Afterlife in Pre-Columbian America

English · Paperback / Softback

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Death and the Afterlife in Pre-Columbian America presents eight essays from a conference at Dumbarton Oaks in 1973. The authors adopt iconographic, socioeconomic, historical, and ethnographic approaches to examine death and the afterlife across a wide span of space and time in diverse Pre-Columbian cultures.

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Elizabeth P. Benson (1924-2018) was Andrew S. Keck Distinguished Visiting Professor of Art History at the American University in Washington, D.C., and the inaugural Director of Pre-Columbian Studies at Dumbarton Oaks.

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Authors Elizabeth P Benson
Publisher Harvard University Press
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 20.05.2025
 
EAN 9780884024569
ISBN 978-0-88402-456-9
No. of pages 208
Subject Humanities, art, music > History > Pre and early history

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