Benson, Elizabeth P., ed. <br/><br/>
Death and the afterlife in pre-Columbian America :    a conference at Dumbarton Oaks, October 27th, 1973 

 - Washington:  Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collections, Trustees for Harvard University,  [1975] 
 - 196 p. 
<br/><br/> Spiro Art and its mortuary contexts/ James A. Brown -- House of Darkness and House of Light: Sacred functions of West Mexican funerary art/ Peter T. Furst -- Post-classic Mexican death imagery as a sign of cyclic completion/ Cecelia F. Klein -- Death an the Ancient Maya/ Michael D. Coe -- Death- Associated figures on Mochica Pottery/ Elizabeth P. Benson -- The Paracas cemeteries: Mortuary patterns in a Peruvian South coastal tradition/ Edward an Jane Powell Dwyer -- Eschatology in a participatory Universe. Destinies of the Soul among the Warao Insians of Venezuela/ Johannes Wilbert -- Death and the Afterlife in Pre-Columbian Ameica: Closing remarks/ Michael D. Coe 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>POBLACIONES INDIGENAS<br/>RELIGION Y MITOLOGIA<br/>RITOS FUNERARIOS <br/>RITOS Y CEREMONIAS<br/>MUERTE