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In September of 2023, a prominent "ufologist" visited Mexico's congress to present a pair of mummified "nonhuman bodies" supposedly found in Peru in 2017, hinting that they evidenced humanity's encounter with extraterrestrial beings. This presentation, drawn from Christopher Heaney's recent Empires of the Dead (Oxford University Press, 2023) explains why. Since the Spanish invasion of the Inca empire in 1532, outsiders have used and abused the mummified Andean dead to mount their own theories of human history, waging war against the idea that Indigenous societies were "civilized" in their own right. Inca, Andean, and Peruvian descendants have responded by making anthropological knowledge to recuperate their "scientific ancestors" from outsiders' gaze. The "Nazca Mummies" made famous in 2023 are only the most sensational recent example of a contest that has filled the museums of the Americas with more human remains from Peru than any other single society.
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Posted:
2/3/2025
Originator:
Sara Guengerich
Email:
sara.guengerich@ttu.edu
Department:
B53114 CMLL
Event Information
Time: 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Event Date: 2/6/2025
Location:
MCOM 359
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