Introduction / Izumi Shimada and James L. Fitzsimmons

The sacred character of ruins on the Peruvian north coast / Jean-François Millaire

Many heads are better than one : mortuary practice and ceramic art in Moche society / Mary Weismantel

Living with the dead : conception and treatment of the dead on the Peruvian coast / Izumi Shimada, Haagen D. Klaus, Rafael A. Segura, and Go Matsumoto

Ritual violence and human offerings at the Temple of the Sacred Stone, Túcume, Peru / J. Marla Toyne

The dead and the longue durée in Peru's north highlands / George F. Lau

Ancestors and social memory : a South American example of dead body politics / Jane E. Buikstra and Kenneth C. Nystrom

Requiem aeternum? : archaeothanatology of mortuary ritual in colonial Mórrope, north coast of Peru / Haagen D. Klaus and Manuel E. Tam

The sadness of jars : separation and rectification in Andean understandings of death / Catherine J. Allen

Turbulent tombs / Frank Salomon

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