Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter One. More Questions than Answers; Moche Visual Culture; Subjects, Themes, and Narratives; Iconography, Archaeology, and Identity; Presentation Theme; Wrinkle Face and Iguana; Ritual Runners; Ceremonial Badminton; Coca-Taking Ceremony; Prisoners and Portrait-Head Vessels; Copulation with Wrinkle Face; Summary; Context and Methodology; A Dualist System; A Tripartite Organization?; Chapter Two. Eros; Previous Contributions; Rafael Larco Hoyle; Anne Marie Hocquenghem; Susan Bergh; Diachronic versus Synchronic; Sodomy; Ritual Paraphernalia.
  • Presence of Children in Scenes of SodomySodomy and Individual with Fangs; Masturbation; Fellatio; Sexual Depictions on Libation Vases; Skeletal Beings and Erections; Anthropomorphic Genitals; Women and Blood; Inverted Fertilities; Vaginal Copulation; Copulation between Animals; Copulation between Animals and Women; Copulation between Wrinkle Face and Women; Eventual Sacrificial Victims; Sacrificial Victim and Vaginal Copulation; Summary; Chapter Three. Eros and Thanatos; Chapter Four. Thanatos; Organization of the Narrative; The Awakening; The Exit; The Reinstatement; Sacrifice and Capture.
  • Strombus SeashellsArchaeological Evidence of an Afterworld; Summary; Chapter Five. Dualities, Liminalities, and Rulership; Dualities; Sipan; Huacas de Moche Site and El Brujo Complex; Iconography; Asymmetry and Duality; Liminalities; On the Structure of Moche Rulership; Notes; Bibliography; Index.