Inca : origins and mysteries of the civilisation of gold / [exhibition curated by Paloma Carcedo de Mufarech ; catalogue edited by Paloma Carcedo de Mufarech ; translation from the Italian, UniFormazione s.r.l.].
Includes bibliographical references (p. 236-241). Catalog for an exhibition held at the Museo di Santa Giulia, Brescia, Dec. 4, 2009-June 27, 2010.
Contents:
Pre-Columbian Peru : an overview / Carlos Wester La Torre -- The ideology and technology of metals in ancient, pre-Incan Peru / María Inés Velarde, Pamela Castro de la Mata -- The Inca : human and divine relations with gold / Fernando Rosas Moscoso -- Cosmovision models in the Central Andes in the pre-Columbian period / Carlo G. Elera Arévalo -- Metal : technology, beauty and feeling in ancient Peruvian culture / Paloma Carcedo de Mufarech -- Beverages, music and libations in pre-Columbian rituals : cups as guiding elements / Luisa María Vetter Parodi -- Scientific missions of the Museo Prehistorico Etnográfico Luigi Pigorini in the Central Andes / Claudio Cavatruno -- Italian anthropological or archaeological missions in Peru : the last few years / Antonio Aimi -- Ceremonial and ritual centres in ancient Peru / Giuseppe Orefici -- Moche culture and the royal tombs of Sipán / Walter Alva Alva.
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