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Chapter 24 - Killing Mummies: On Inka Epistemology and Imperial Power

from Part VI - Intimations of Immortality: Glimpsing Other Worlds

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 November 2015

Colin Renfrew
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge
Michael J. Boyd
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge
Iain Morley
Affiliation:
University of Oxford
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