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

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

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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Inca: Before The Conquest

In my first book: "A Brief History Of The Incas: From Rise, Through Reign To Ruin" I covered the origin and hi

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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 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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Sacred Natural Sites: Conserving Nature and Culture 9781849711, 9781849711661

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Revenge of the Cocaine Mummies

Four police officers attended a call to check a sudden death, investigating what appears to be a case of spontaneous hum

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Plants of the Gods: Their Sacred, Healing, and Hallucinogenic Powers [2 ed.] 0892819790, 9780892819799

World-renowned anthropologist and ethnopharmacologist Christian Ratsch provides the latest scientific updates to this cl

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