James L. Fitzsimmons
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Living with the Dead
Edited by James L. Fitzsimmons and Izumi Shimada
The University of Arizona Press
This useful volume offers new insights into the many ways in which the dead and the living interacted in prehistoric and historic Mesoamerica. Here well-known scholars offer synergistic insights by employing historical sources, comparative art history, anthropology, and sociology, as well as archeology and anthropology. Together they uncover surprising commonalities across Mesoamerican cultures.
Living with the Dead in the Andes
Edited by Izumi Shimada and James L. Fitzsimmons
The University of Arizona Press
Living with the Dead in the Andes provides new data and insights informed by general anthropological theory; the extensive bibliography alone is an important contribution. Scholars working with Andean mortuary practices (and prehistory generally) will be citing these chapters for years.