Ice Maiden: Inca Mummies, Mountain Gods, and Sacred Sites in the Andes 9781426201769

The Ice Maiden: Inca Mummies, Mountain Gods, and Sacred Sites in the Andes 9780792259121, 0792259122

Johan Reinhard's discovery of the 500-year-old frozen body of an Inca girl made international headlines in 1995, re

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Indigeneity and the Sacred: Indigenous Revival and the Conservation of Sacred Natural Sites in the Americas 9781785333972

This book presents current research in the political ecology of indigenous revival and its role in nature conservation i

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Devil in the Mountain: A Search for the Origin of the Andes 9781400881345

How do high mountain ranges form on the face of the Earth? This question has intrigued some of the greatest philosophers

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Sacred Sites and Sacred Stories Across Cultures: Transmission of Oral Tradition, Myth, and Religiosity 9783030565213, 9783030565220

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Sacred Natural Sites: Conserving Nature and Culture 9781849711, 9781849711661

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Sacred Sites and Holy Places: Exploring the Sacralization of Landscape through Space and Time 2503541003, 9782503541006

In this volume two important veins of interdisciplinary research into the medieval period in Scandinavia and the Baltic

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Images, Relics, and Legends: The Formation and Transformation of Buddhist Sacred Sites 0889629099, 9780889629097

A major collection of important essays by many of the leading scholars in the field of Buddhism, including Phyllis Grano

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Mount Wutai: Visions of a Sacred Buddhist Mountain 9780691191126

The northern Chinese mountain range of Mount Wutai has been a preeminent site of international pilgrimage for over a mil

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Buscando un Inca. Identidad y utopía en los Andes [3° ed.]

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Pilgrims and Sacred Sites in China [Reprint 2020 ed.] 9780520911659

Until now, China has been scarcely represented in the burgeoning comparative literature on pilgrimage. This volume remed

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