Empires of the dead

• Verfasst von: Heaney, Christopher [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Empires of the dead
• Titelzusatz: Inca mummies and the Peruvian ancestors of American anthropologyy
• Verf.angabe: Christopher Heaney
• Verlagsort: New York, NY
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Jahr: 2023
• Umfang: 1 online resource
• Illustrationen: illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white).
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: Oxford scholarship online
• Fussnoten: Also issued in print: 2023. - Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on July 21, 2023)
• ISBN: 978-0-19-754258-3
• DOI: doi:10.1093/oso/9780197542552.001.0001
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Druck-Ausgabe
• Sach-SW: Family and Relationships
• Sach-SW: Cultural studies: customs & traditions
• K10plus-PPN: 1858271681
• K10plus-PPN:
  Universitätsbibliothek
• Lokale URL UB: Zum Volltext

Abstract

When the Smithsonian's Hall of Physical Anthropology opened in 1965 it featured 160 Andean skulls affixed to a wall to visualize how the world's human population had exploded since the birth of Christ. Through a history of Inca mummies, a pre-Hispanic surgery called trepanation, and Andean crania like these, 'Empires of the Dead' explains how 'ancient Peruvians' became the single largest population in the Smithsonian and many other museums in Peru, the Americas, and beyond.