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The Moche, or Mochica, created an extraordinary civilization on the north coast of Peru for most of the first millennium AD. Although they had no written language with which to record their history and beliefs, the Moche built enormous ceremonial edifices and embellished them with mural paintings depicting supernatural figures and rituals. Highly skilled Moche artisans crafted remarkable ceramic vessels, which they painted with figures and scenes or modeled like sculpture, and mastered metallurgy in gold, silver, and copper to make impressive symbolic ornaments. They also wove textiles that were complex in execution and design. A senior scholar renowned for her discoveries about the Moche, Elizabeth P. Benson published the first English-language monograph on the subject in 1972. Now in this volume, she draws on decades of knowledge, as well as the findings of other researchers, to offer a grand overview of all that is currently known about the Moche. Touching on all significant aspects of Moche culture, she covers such topics as their worldview and ritual life, ceremonial architecture and murals, art and craft, supernatural beings, government and warfare, and burial and the afterlife. She demonstrates that the Moche expressed, with symbolic language in metal and clay, what cultures in other parts of the world presented in writing. Indeed, Benson asserts that the accomplishments of the Moche are comparable to those of their Mesoamerica contemporaries, the Maya, which makes them one of the most advanced civilizations of pre-Columbian America.
Mochica Indians --- Mochica pottery. --- Mochica architecture. --- History. --- Pacific Coast (Peru) --- Antiquities. --- Architecture, Mochica --- Architecture --- Pottery, Mochica --- Pottery, Peruvian --- Moche Indians --- Muchik Indians --- Indians of South America --- Yunca Indians --- Pottery
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Mochica pottery --- Mochica Indians --- Céramique mochica --- Mochica (Indiens) --- Catalogs. --- Antiquities --- Catalogues --- Antiquités --- Museo Arqueológico Rafael Larco Herrera --- Moche Indians --- Muchik Indians --- Indians of South America --- Yunca Indians --- Pottery, Mochica --- Pottery, Peruvian --- Pottery --- M.A.R.L.H. --- MARLH --- Museo Rafael Larco Herrera --- Larco Museum --- Musée Larco --- Museo Larco
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Mochica painting. --- Mochica pottery --- Mochica artists. --- Peinture mochica --- Céramique mochica --- Artistes mochica --- Themes, motives. --- Thèmes, motifs --- San José de Moro Site (Peru) --- San José de Moro (Pérou : Site archéologique) --- Mochica artists --- Mochica painting --- Mochica Indians --- Pottery, Mochica --- Pottery, Peruvian --- Painting, Mochica --- Mochica art --- Painting, Peruvian --- Artists, Mochica --- Artists --- Themes, motives --- Pottery --- Painting --- Moro Site (Peru) --- Peru --- Antiquities. --- Antiquities
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Applied arts. Arts and crafts --- ceramics [object genre] --- Pre-Columbian [American] --- Mochica --- Shipibo --- Peru --- Indian pottery --- Mochica pottery --- Pottery, Peruvian --- Shipibo-Conibo art --- Indians --- Pottery, Indian --- Pottery --- Art, Shipibo-Conibo --- Conibo art --- Sipibo art --- Art, Peruvian --- Peruvian pottery --- Mochica Indians --- Pottery, Mochica
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The Moche people who inhabited the north coast of Peru between approximately 100 and 800 AD were perhaps the first ancient Andean society to attain state-level social complexity. Although they had no written language, the Moche created the most elaborate system of iconographic representation of any ancient Peruvian culture. Amazingly realistic figures of humans, animals, and beings with supernatural attributes adorn Moche pottery, metal and wooden objects, textiles, and murals. These actors, which may have represented both living individuals and mythological beings, appear in scenes depicting ritual warfare, human sacrifice, the partaking of human blood, funerary rites, and explicit sexual activities. In this pathfinding book, Steve Bourget raises the analysis of Moche iconography to a new level through an in-depth study of visual representations of rituals involving sex, death, and sacrifice. He begins by drawing connections between the scenes and individuals depicted on Moche pottery and other objects and the archaeological remains of human sacrifice and burial rituals. He then builds a convincing case for Moche iconography recording both actual ritual activities and Moche religious beliefs regarding the worlds of the living, the dead, and the afterlife. Offering a pioneering interpretation of the Moche worldview, Bourget argues that the use of symbolic dualities linking life and death, humans and beings with supernatural attributes, and fertility and social reproduction allowed the Moche to create a complex system of reciprocity between the world of the living and the afterworld. He concludes with an innovative model of how Moche cosmological beliefs played out in the realms of rulership and political authority.
Mochica pottery --- Mochica Indians --- Sex in art. --- Death in art. --- Human sacrifice in art. --- Themes, motives. --- Rites and ceremonies. --- Social life and customs. --- Peru --- Antiquities. --- Pottery, Mochica --- Pottery, Peruvian --- Death --- Sex in the arts --- Sexuality in art --- Moche Indians --- Muchik Indians --- Indians of South America --- Yunca Indians --- Pottery
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Mochica Indians. --- Mochica Indians --- Mochica pottery. --- Mochica (Indiens) --- Céramique mochica --- Antiquities. --- Antiquités --- Peabody Museum of Natural History --- Céramique mochica --- Antiquités --- Mochica pottery --- Pottery, Mochica --- Pottery, Peruvian --- Moche Indians --- Muchik Indians --- Indians of South America --- Yunca Indians --- Antiquities --- Pottery --- Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology --- Peabody Museum (Harvard University) --- Harvard University. --- Museo Peabody de Arqueologia y Etnologia de la Universidad de Harvard --- Museo Peabody de Arqueologia y Etnologia --- Museo Peabody (Harvard University) --- Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology
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Mochica pottery --- Mochica Indians --- Mochica painting. --- Face in art. --- Céramique mochica --- Mochica (Indiens) --- Peinture mochica --- Visage dans l'art --- Themes, motives. --- Classification. --- Portraits. --- Thèmes, motifs --- Classification --- Portraits --- Mochica --- Applied arts. Arts and crafts --- earthenware --- Peru --- Face in art --- Mochica painting --- Pottery, Mochica --- Painting, Mochica --- Moche Indians --- Muchik Indians --- Themes, motives --- Pottery --- Painting --- Pottery, Peruvian --- Mochica art --- Painting, Peruvian --- Indians of South America --- Yunca Indians
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Indians of South America --- Indian pottery --- Pottery, Prehistoric --- Mochica pottery --- Excavations (Archaeology) --- Indiens d'Amérique --- Céramique indienne d'Amérique --- Céramique préhistorique --- Céramique mochica --- Fouilles (Archéologie) --- Antiquities --- Congresses --- Antiquités --- Congrès --- Indiens d'Amérique --- Céramique indienne d'Amérique --- Céramique préhistorique --- Céramique mochica --- Fouilles (Archéologie) --- Antiquités --- Congrès --- Congresses. --- Ethnoarchaeology --- Social archaeology --- American aborigines --- American Indians --- Indigenous peoples --- Indians --- Pottery, Indian --- Pottery --- Archaeological digs --- Archaeological excavations --- Digs (Archaeology) --- Excavation sites (Archaeology) --- Ruins --- Sites, Excavation (Archaeology) --- Archaeology --- Ethnic archaeology --- Ethnicity in archaeology --- Ethnology in archaeology --- Ethnology --- Prehistoric pottery --- Industries, Primitive --- Mochica Indians --- Pottery, Mochica --- Pottery, Peruvian --- Ethnic identity --- Methodology --- Pacific Coast (Peru) --- Industries, Prehistoric
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Mochica Indians --- Mochica pottery --- Excavations (Archaeology) --- Tombs --- Grave goods --- Elite (Social sciences) --- Mochica (Indiens) --- Céramique mochica --- Fouilles (Archéologie) --- Tombes --- Mobilier funéraire --- Elite (Sciences sociales) --- Antiquities. --- Funeral customs and rites --- Antiquités --- Rites et cérémonies funéraires --- Dos Cabezas Site (Peru) --- Jequetepeque River Valley (Peru) --- Dos Cabezas (Pérou : Site archéologique) --- Jequetepeque, Vallée du (Pérou) --- Céramique mochica --- Fouilles (Archéologie) --- Mobilier funéraire --- Antiquités --- Rites et cérémonies funéraires --- Dos Cabezas (Pérou : Site archéologique) --- Jequetepeque, Vallée du (Pérou) --- Moche Indians --- Muchik Indians --- Indians of South America --- Yunca Indians --- Burial goods --- Burial objects --- Grave objects --- Ceremonial objects --- Funeral rites and ceremonies --- Archaeological digs --- Archaeological excavations --- Digs (Archaeology) --- Excavation sites (Archaeology) --- Ruins --- Sites, Excavation (Archaeology) --- Archaeology --- Elites (Social sciences) --- Leadership --- Power (Social sciences) --- Social classes --- Social groups --- Pottery, Mochica --- Pottery, Peruvian --- Antiquities --- Pottery --- Peru
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