The Moche of Ancient Peru by Jeffrey Quilter

The Moche of Ancient Peru by Jeffrey Quilter

Peru's ancient Moche culture is represented in a magnificent collection of artifacts at Harvard's Peabody Museum. In this richly illustrated volume, Jeffrey Quilter presents a fascinating introduction to this intriguing culture and explores current thinking about Moche politics, history, society, and religion.

Quilter utilizes the Peabody's collection as a means to investigate how the Moche used various media, particularly ceramics, to convey messages about their lives and beliefs. His presentation provides a critical examination and rethinking of many of the commonly held interpretations of Moche artifacts and their imagery, raising important issues of art production and its role in ancient and modern societies.

The most up-to-date monograph available on the Moche--and the first extensive discussion of the Peabody Museum's collection of Moche ceramics--this volume provides an introduction for the general reader and contributes to ongoing scholarly discussions. Quilter's fresh reading of Moche visual imagery raises new questions about the art and culture of ancient Peru.

Jeffrey Quilter is the author of Cobble Circles and Standing Stones (Iowa 2004), coeditor of Gold and Power in Ancient Costa Rica, Panama, and Colombia and Narrative Threads: Accounting and Recounting in Andean Khipu, and director of Pre-Columbian Studies and curator of the Pre-Columbian Collection at Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection in Washington, D.C.

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ISBN 13	9780873654067
ISBN 10	0873654064
Title	The Moche of Ancient Peru
Author	Jeffrey Quilter
Series	Peabody Museum Collections Series
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology,U.S.
Year published	2011-02-28
Number of pages	172
Prizes	Winner of Benjamin Franklin Award (Multicultural) 2012
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