Death and the Afterlife in Pre-Columbian America

Death and the Afterlife in Pre-Columbian America contains eight essays first presented a conference held at Dumbarton Oaks in October 1973. Expertly edited by Elizabeth P. Benson and first published in 1975, these essays adopt iconographic, socioeconomic, historical, and ethnographic approaches to examine death and the afterlife as they occur over a wide span of space and time in diverse Pre-Columbian cultures.