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Death as a rite of passage: the iconography of the Moche Burial Theme

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Erica Hill
Erica Hill*
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Department of Anthropology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque NM 87131-1086, USA. ehill@unm.edu
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Abstract

The application of van Gennep's Rites of Passage structure to iconography and mortuary contexts in the Late Moche period of Peru offers an original means of exploring prehistoric concepts of death.

Keywords

PeruMoche periodRites of Passagemortuary contextscosmologyiconography
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Antiquity , Volume 72 , Issue 277 , September 1998 , pp. 528 - 538
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1998

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