Las Varas : ritual and ethnicity in the ancient Andes

Title:

Author:

Tsai, Howard, 1979- author.

ISBN:

9780817393205

Personal Author:

Tsai, Howard, 1979- author.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (157 pages) : illustrations

Contents:

1. The staircase and the tree -- 2. Ethnic encounters in the Andean Chaupiyunga -- 3. Las Varas: a community in the Jequetepeque Valley -- 4. The residences of Las Varas -- 5. The ritual boundaries of Las Varas -- 6. An archaeological investigation of ethnicity.

Local Note:

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

Subject Term:

Ethnology -- Andes Region.

Excavations (Archaeology) -- Peru -- Jequetepeque River Valley.

Indians of South America -- Peru -- Jequetepeque River Valley -- Ethnic identity.

Indians of South America -- Peru -- Jequetepeque River Valley -- Rites and ceremonies.

Geographic Term:

Peru -- Antiquities.

Jequetepeque River Valley (Peru) -- Antiquities.

Andes Region -- Antiquities.

Varas Site (Peru)