{"id":365,"date":"2013-11-05T17:30:50","date_gmt":"2013-11-05T17:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wonderful\/?p=365"},"modified":"2013-10-22T14:54:56","modified_gmt":"2013-10-22T14:54:56","slug":"inca-mummy-bundle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wonderful\/major-theme\/ancient-empires\/inca-mummy-bundle\/","title":{"rendered":"Inca Mummy Bundle"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_95\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-95\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wonderful\/files\/2013\/10\/WT_Wk6_IncaMummyBundle.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-95\" alt=\"Inca mummy bundle. Image Fraser Sturt.\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wonderful\/files\/2013\/10\/WT_Wk6_IncaMummyBundle-225x300.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wonderful\/files\/2013\/10\/WT_Wk6_IncaMummyBundle-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wonderful\/files\/2013\/10\/WT_Wk6_IncaMummyBundle.jpg 235w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-95\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Inca mummy bundle. Image Fraser Sturt.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Wrapped tightly in cotton cloth and accompanied by pottery, food and other socially significant material (and sometime with a detachable artificial head), Inca and pre-Inca mummy bundles represent a way not only to preserve the physical remains of the dead, but also to ensure their continued social presence.\u00a0 For many societies the living and the dead often have more to do with one another than we might presume from our own social norms.\u00a0\u00a0 Soon after the Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire, Cieza de Le\u00f3n wrote of his encounter with numerous very visibly present, but dead, members of Inca society: <i>\u201ccertainly it is marvellous to behold the great number of these dead among the sands and dry places, with their clothing worn and decayed by the passage of time.\u201d<\/i>Cieza de Le\u00f3n (1995 [1553]:\u00a0 197). Here, with the Inca mummy bundles, we see wrapping to preserve a physical essence enabling a continued spiritual presence.<\/p>\n<h2>Reading<\/h2>\n<p>Friedrich, K.M. et al.\u00a0 2010. The Story of 12 Chachapoyan mummies through multidector computed tomography. <em>European Journal of Radiology<\/em> 76(2) 143-150<a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1016\/j.ejrad.2009.07.009\" target=\"doilink\">http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1016\/j.ejrad.2009.07.009<\/a>,<\/p>\n<p>National Geographic\u2019s interactive mummy bundles of Puruchuco web resource:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/channel.nationalgeographic.com\/channel\/content\/inca\/\">http:\/\/channel.nationalgeographic.com\/channel\/content\/inca\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wrapped tightly in cotton cloth and accompanied by pottery, food and other socially significant material (and sometime with a detachable artificial head), Inca and pre-Inca mummy bundles represent a way not only to preserve the physical remains of the dead, but also to ensure their continued social presence.\u00a0 For many societies the living and the dead often have more to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62282,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[529814,528278,532628,618026,543581,530843,617696],"tags":[620201,619930,618887,197701,619203,590985,299,618710,618332,620766,593179,618539,516070,619430,619591,620498],"class_list":["post-365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2000-500-years-ago","category-ancient-empires","category-fraser-sturt","category-lecture-12","category-object","category-old-world","category-wrapping-to-preserve-ancient-empires","tag-1500s","tag-cieza-de-leon","tag-cloth","tag-cotton","tag-dead","tag-death","tag-food","tag-head","tag-inca","tag-inca-empire","tag-mummy","tag-pottery","tag-religion","tag-social-norms","tag-spanish-conquest","tag-spiritual","column","threecol"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wonderful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wonderful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wonderful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wonderful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62282"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wonderful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wonderful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":367,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wonderful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365\/revisions\/367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wonderful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wonderful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wonderful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}