Contents -- Introduction - Izumi Shimada and James l. Fitzsimmons -- Chapter 1. The Sacred Character of Ruins on the Peruvian North Coast - Jean-François Millaire -- Chapter 2. Many Heads Are Better Than One: Mortuary Practice and Ceramic Art in Moche Society - Mary Weismantel -- Chapter 3. Living with the Dead: Conception and Treatment of the Dead on the Peruvian Coast - Izumi Shimada, Haagen D. Klaus, Rafael A. Segura, and Go Matsumoto -- Chapter 4. Ritual Violence and Human Offerings at the Temple of the Sacred Stone, Túcume, Peru - J. Marla Toyne -- Chapter 5. The Dead and the Longue Durée in Peru's North Highlands - George F. Lau -- Chapter 6. Ancestors and Social Memory: A South American Example of Dead Body Politics - Jane E. Buikstra and Kenneth C. Nystrom -- Chapter 7. Requiem Aeternam?: Archaeothanatology of Mortuary Ritual in Colonial Mórrope, North Coast of Peru - Haagen D. Klaus and Manuel E. Tam -- Chapter 8. The Sadness of Jars: Separation and Rectification in Andean Understandings of Death - Catherine J. Allen -- Chapter 9. Turbulent Tombs - Frank Salomon -- Editors and Contributors -- Index.