Death and Afterlife in Pre-Columbian America: A Conference at Dumbarton Oaks

Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 1975 8vo (24.5 cm), XII, 196 pp. Publisher's cloth (minor shelf-wear). Papers presented at the October 27, 1973 conference at Dumbarton Oaks. Contents include: "Spiro art and its mortuary contexts" by James A. Brown; "House of darkness and house of light : sacred functions of west Mexican funerary art" by Peter T. Furst; "Post-classic Mexican death imagery as a sign of cyclic completion" by Cecelia F. Klein; "Death and the ancient Maya" by Michael D. Coe; "Death-associated figures on Mochica pottery" by Elizabeth P. Benson; "The Paracas cemeteries : mortuary patterns in a Peruvian South coastal tradition" by Edward and Jane Powell Dwyer; "Eschatology in a participatory universe : destinies of the soul among the Warao Indians of Venezuela" by Johannes Wilbert; "Death and the afterlife in pre-Columbian America: closing remarks" by Michael D. Coe.