Sex, Death, and Sacrifice in Moche Religion and Visual Culture.

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter One. More Questions than Answers -- Moche Visual Culture -- Subjects, Themes, and Narratives -- Iconography, Archaeology, and Identity -- Presentation Theme -- Wrinkle Face and Iguana -- Ritual Runners -- Ceremonial Badminton -- Coca-Taking Ceremony -- Prisoners and Portrait-Head Vessels -- Copulation with Wrinkle Face -- Summary -- Context and Methodology -- A Dualist System -- A Tripartite Organization? -- Chapter Two. Eros -- Previous Contributions -- Rafael Larco Hoyle -- Anne Marie Hocquenghem -- Susan Bergh -- Diachronic versus Synchronic -- Sodomy -- Ritual Paraphernalia -- Presence of Children in Scenes of Sodomy -- Sodomy and Individual with Fangs -- Masturbation -- Fellatio -- Sexual Depictions on Libation Vases -- Skeletal Beings and Erections -- Anthropomorphic Genitals -- Women and Blood -- Inverted Fertilities -- Vaginal Copulation -- Copulation between Animals -- Copulation between Animals and Women -- Copulation between Wrinkle Face and Women -- Eventual Sacrificial Victims -- Sacrificial Victim and Vaginal Copulation -- Summary -- Chapter Three. Eros and Thanatos -- Chapter Four. Thanatos -- Organization of the Narrative -- The Awakening -- The Exit -- The Reinstatement -- Sacrifice and Capture -- Strombus Seashells -- Archaeological Evidence of an Afterworld -- Summary -- Chapter Five. Dualities, Liminalities, and Rulership -- Dualities -- Sipan -- Huacas de Moche Site and El Brujo Complex -- Iconography -- Asymmetry and Duality -- Liminalities -- On the Structure of Moche Rulership -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

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