ISBN:
9780197542569
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (397 pages)
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Abstract:
This book explains why Inca mummies and "ancient Peruvian" skulls filled museums around the world, from 1532 to the present, and why they tell us more about the colonial violence of science than their more famous Egyptian cousins.
Abstract:
Cover -- Empires of the Dead -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- A Note on Images -- A Note on Orthography -- Introduction: Death's Heads: The Peruvian Ancestors at the Smithsonian -- PART 1: OPENING, 1525-1795 -- 1. Curing Incas: Andean Lifeways and the Pre-Hispanic Imperial Dead -- 2. Embalming Incas: Huayna Capac's Yllapa and the Spanish Collection of Empire -- 3. Mummifying Incas: Colonial Grave-Opening and the Racialization of Ancient Peru -- PART 2: EXPORTING, 1780-1893 -- 4. Trading Incas: San Martín's Mummy and the Peruvian Independence of the Andean Dead -- 5. Mismeasuring Incas: Samuel George Morton and the American School of Peruvian Skull Science -- 6. Mining Incas: The Peruvian Necropolis at the World's Fairs -- PART 3: HEALING, 1863-1965 -- 7. Trepanning Incas: Ancient Peruvian Surgery and American Anthropology's Monroe Doctrine -- 8. Decapitating Incas: Julio César Tello and Peruvian Anthropology's Healing -- 9. The Three Burials of Julio César Tello: Or, Skull Walls Revisited -- Epilogue: Afterlives: Museums of the American Inca -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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