Death in the highland of Piura: funerary practices and beliefs about the dead in archaeological evidence and in ethnographic material

This essay aims to document the cultural continuity of funeral ritual ideas and practices among the peasant communities of the highland of Piura. Archaeological documents, colonial sources and ethnographic data allow an approach to traditional ideas about death and the spirits of the ancestors in th...

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Autor principal: Polia, Mario
Formato: Artículo (Article)
Idioma:Español (Spanish)
Publicado: Pontifical Catholic University of Peru 1997
Acceso en línea:http://revistas.pucp.edu.pe/index.php/anthropologica/article/view/1201