Peoples on Parade Exhibitions, Empire, and Anthropology in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Qureshi Sadiah
ISBN: HB: 9780226700960, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
392 pp., 25.5x18 cm, 117 halftones, 18 colour illus.
In May 1853, Charles Dickens paid a visit to the "savages at Hyde Park Corner", an exhibition of thirteen imported Zulus performing cultural rites ranging from songs and dances to a "witch-hunt" and marriage ceremony. Dickens was not the only Londone...
Archaeology & Paleontology
Moche of Ancient Peru Media and Messages
Quilter Jeffrey
ISBN: PB: 9780873654067, Harvard University Press, March 2011
172 pp., 21.3x20.3 cm, 70 colour illus., 15 halftones
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 t...
New Perspectives on Moche Political Organization
Quilter Jeffrey, Castillo B. Luis Jaime
416 pp., 25.7x17.8 cm, 192 halftones
This volume brings together essays on the nature of political organization of the Moche, a complex pre-Inca society that existed on the north coast of Peru from c. 100 to 800 CE. Since the discovery of the royal tombs of Sipan in 1987, the Moche have...