Review: Haagen D. Klaus & J. Marla Toyne (eds). Ritual violence in the Ancient Andes: reconstructing sacrifice on the north coast of Peru. xvi, 468 pp., maps, tables, figs, illus., bibliogrs. Austin: Univ. of Texas Press, 2016
Sacrifice and ritual violence often are assumed to be important facets of social life in the pre-Hispanic Americas; popularly seen as gruesome testament to the Otherness of Indigenous American societies. The archaeological literature on these practices, however, has remained remarkably thin until re...
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