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1 online resource. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Death's Heads: Humanity's Peruvian Ancestors at the Smithsonian -- Part 1. Opening, 1525-1795. Curing Incas: Andean Lifeways and the Pre-Hispanic Imperial Dead -- Embalming Incas: Huayna Capac's Yllapa and the Spanish Collection of Empire -- Mummifying Incas: Colonial Grave-Opening and the Racialization of Ancient Peru -- Part 2. Exporting, 1780-1893. Trading Incas: San Martín's Mummy and the Peruvian Independence of the Andean Dead -- Mismeasuring Incas: Samuel George Morton and the American School of Peruvian Skull Science -- Mining Incas: The Peruvian Necropolis at the World's Fairs -- Part 3. Healing, 1863-1965. Trepanning Incas: Ancient Peruvian Surgery and American Anthropology's Monroe Doctrine -- Decapitating Incas: Julio César Tello and Peruvian Anthropology's Healing -- The Three Burials of Julio César Tello; or, Skull Walls Revisited -- Epilogue: Afterlives: Museums of the American Inca. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web. |
| Note |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 27, 2023). |
| Subject |
National Museum of Natural History (U.S.). Department of Anthropology -- Exhibitions.
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Anthropological museums and collections -- United States.
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Ethnoscience -- Peru.
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Trephining -- Peru -- History.
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Ethnology -- Peru.
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ProQuest (Firm)
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Inca mummies and the Peruvian ancestors of American anthropologyy |
| Related To |
Print version: Heaney, Christopher. Empires of the dead New York : Oxford University Press, [2023] 9780197542552 (DLC) 2023004932 |
| ISBN |
9780197542583 electronic book |
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0197542581 electronic book |
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9780197542569 electronic book |
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0197542565 electronic book |
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9780197542576 electronic book |
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0197542573 electronic book |
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9780197542552 hardcover |
| OCLC # |
EBC7266636 |
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