Empires of the Dead: Inca Mummies and the Peruvian Ancestors of American Anthropology

ISBN-13: 9780197542552 / Twarda / 2023 / 368 str.

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Recenzje

Archaeology is, of course, always about the past, but only after translation into the present tense. In Christopher Heaney's masterful telling, the sun-bleached mummified Incan crania on the Smithsonian's infamous Skull Wall become active agents in their own history. Their conflicted finders-keepers' legacy bridges the imperialist Golden Age of museum skull-collecting to link modern Peruvian institutions sometimes reclaiming some of those functions for themselvesDLall underscoring ongoing international debates over what should be done with the dead.

O autorze

Christopher Heaney is an Assistant Professor of History at the Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of Cradle of Gold: The Story of Hiram Bingham, a Real-Life Indiana Jones and the Search for Machu Picchu. He has written for the New Yorker, the Atlantic, the New York Times, and other publications, and was the co-founder of The Appendix, a journal of narrative and experimental history.