Bibliography of Moche Sources

This page is still being worked on... The bibliography is fairly extensive, but if you have any questions or suggestions for other sources, please don't hesitate to let me know! As for the sources you'll find here, many of them deal specifically with the Moche, many of them deal only incidentally with the Moche, and some of them are simplky useful in understanding the ethnographic or archaeological context of the Moche.



ALVA, WALTER

• "Discovering the New World's Richest Unlooted Tomb: 'Into the Tomb of a Moche Lord.'" National Geographic, vol. 174, no. 4. Washington D.C: 1988.

• "The Moche of Ancient Peru: New Tomb of Royal Splendor." National Geographic, vol. 177,no. 6, Washington D.C: 1990.
  
  

ANONYMOUS

• The Huarochirí Manuscript: A Testament of Ancient and Colonial Andean Religion.Translated from the Quechua by Frank Salomon and George L. Urioste. Annotations and Introduction by Frank Salomon. Transcription by George L. Urioste. Austin: University of Texas, 1991.
  
  

BASTIEN, JOSEPH W.

• Qollohuaya Rituals: An Ethnographic Account of the Symbolic Relations of Man and Land in an Andean Village. Doctoral Thesis, Cornell University, 1973.
  
  

BAUER, BRIAN S. AND DAVID S. P. DEARBORN

• Astronomy and Empire in the Ancient Andes: The cultural Origins of Inca Sky Watching.Austin: University of Texas, 1995.
  
  

BENNET, WENDELL C. and JUNIUS BIRD

• Andean Culture History. American Museum of Natural History Handbook Series, No. 15. New York, 1949, 1960.
  
  

BENSON, ELIZABETH P.

• The Mochica: A Culture of Peru. New York: Praeger, 1972.
  
  

BETANZOS, JUAN DE

• Narrative of the Incas. Translated and edited by Roland hamilton and Dana Huchanan from the Palma de Mallorca manuscript. Austin: University of Texas, 1996
  
  

BUSHNELL, G.H.S. with General Editor GLYN DANIEL

• Ancient People and Places: Peru. New York: Praeger, 1957.
  
  

CIEZA DE LEÓN, PEDRO DE

• The Incas of Pedro de Cieza de León. Translated by Harriet de Onis. Edited, with an Introduction, by Victor Wolfgang von Hagen. Norman, Olahoma: Univeristy of Oklahoma, 1959.
  
  

DONNAN, CHRISTOPHER B.

• Moche Occupation of the Santa Valley, Peru. Berkley: University of California, 1973.

• ed. Ethnoarchaeology. Los Angles: University of California, 1974.

• "The Thematic Approach to Moche Iconography." Journal of Latin American Lore, vol. 1, no. 2. 1975: 147 -- 162.

• Moche Art of Peru: Pre-Columbian Symbolic Communication. Los Angeles: Fowler Museum of Cultural History, University of California, 1978.

• "Masterwokrs of Art Reveal a Pre-Inca World." National Geographic, vol. 177, no. 6, Washington D.C: 1990.

• "Moche Funerary Practice." Ms.
  
  

DONNAND, CHRISTOPHER B. and LUIS JAMES CASTILLO

• "Finding the Tomb of a Moche Priestess." Ms.
  
  

DONNAN, CHRISTOPHER B. and CAROL J. MACKEY

• Ancient Burial Paterns of the Moche Valley, Peru. Austin: University of Texas, 1978.
  
  

FARGE, HENRY A. LA, ed.

• Museums of the Andes. Introduction by Junius B. Bird, text by Elizabeth P. Benson and Sergio J. Conklin. Great Museums of the World. Tokyo: Newsweek, 1982.
  
  

HAGEN, VICTOR W. VON

• The Desert Kingdoms of Peru. Greenwich, Connecticut: New York Graphics Society: 1964, 1965.

• The Royal Road of the Inca. London: Gordon Cremonosi, 1976.
  
  

HARCOURT, RAOUL D'

• Textiles of Ancient Peru and Their Techniques. Edited by Grace G. Dennyand Carolyn M. Osborne. Translated by Sadie Brown. Seattle: University of Washington, 1962.Orig., Les textiles anciens du Pérou. Paris: 1934.
  
  

HOCQUENGHEM, ANNE MARIE

• Iconorafía Mochica, Segunda Edicion. Lima, Peru: Fondo Editorial de la Pontífiia Universidad Católica del Perú, 1987.
  
  

KAREN, RUTH

• The Seven Worlds of Peru. New York, New York: Funk and Wagnalls, 1969.
  
  

KATZ, FRIEDRICH and translated by K.M. LOIS SIMPSON

• The Ancient American Civilization. New York: Praeger, 1969, 1972.
  
  

KOSSOK, PAUL

• Life, Land and Water in Ancient Peru. New york: Long Island University, 1965.
  
  

KROEBER, ALFRED LOUIS

• Peruvian Archaeology in 1942. Viking Fund Publications in Anthropolgy, no. 4. New York: Viking Fund, 1944. Reprinted in New York: Johnson Reprint, 1963.
  
  

LANNING, EDWARD P.

• Peru Before the Incas. Englewood, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1967.
  
  

LARCO HOYLE, RAFAEL

• La Escritura Peruana Sobre Pallares. Bueonas Aires: Sociedad Argentina de Antropologia, 1944.

• Peru. Translated from the French by James Hogarth. Archaeologia Mundi. Series directed by Jean Marcadé. Orig., Geneva: Nagel, 1966. Cleveland: World, 1966(?).
  
  

LOTHROP, SAMUEL K.

• Treasures of Ancient America: Pre Columbian Art fromMexico to Peru. New York: Crown, 1964.
  
  

LUMBRERAS, LUIS G., translated by BETTY J. MEGGERS

• The Peoples and Cultures of Ancient Peru. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institute, 1974.
  
  

MCCLELLAND, DONNA

• "A Maritime Passage from Moche to Chimu." Nawa Pacha.
  
  

MEANS, PHILLIP ANSWORTH

• Ancient Civilizations of the Andes. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1931.
  
  

MONTELL, GÖSTA

• Dress And Ornaments in Ancient Peru. London: Oxford University, 1929.
  
  

MOSELEY, MICHAEL E. and JAMES B. RICHARDSON, III

• "Doomed by Natural Disasters." Archaeology. November/December 1992: 44 -- 45.
  
  

NIEVES, ANA C.

• Mochica Bean Warriors (Masters Thesis). Charlottesville: University of Virgina, 1995.
  
  

POINDEXTER, MILES, LL.D.

• The Ayar-Incas, Volume One: Monuments, Culture, and American Relationships. New York: Horace Liveright, 1930.
  
  

POMA, DON FELIPE HUMÁN DE AYALA

• Letter to A King. A Peruvian chief's Account of Life Under the Incas and Under Spanish Rule. Translated, Arranged, and Edited, with an Introduction, by Christopher Dilke. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1978.
  
  

SCHUSTER, ANGELA M. H.

• "Inside the Royal Tombs of the Moche." Archaeology. November/December 1992: 30 -- 36.

• "Moche Masterworks." Ibid.
  
  

SHIMADA, ISUMI and CRYSTAK BARKER SCHAAF and LONNIE G. THOMPSON and ELLEN MOSLEY-THOMPSON

• "Cultural Impacts of Severe Droughts in the Prehistoric Andes: Applicatin of a 1,500-Year Ice Core Precipitation Record." World Archaeology, vol. 22, no. 3 (1991): 247 -- 269.
  
  

STRONG, WILLIAM D. and CLIFORD EVANS, Jr.

• Cultural Stratigraphy in the Viru Valley, Northern Peru: The Formative and Florescent Epochs. New York: Columbia University, 1952.
  
  

TOWLE, MARGARET A.

• The Ethnobotany of Pre-Columbian Peru. Forward by Gordon R. Wiley. Viking Fund Publications in Anthropology, 30. Chicago: Aldine, 1961.

UBBELHODE-DOERING, HEINRICH

• On the Royal Highways of the Inca: Arcaheological Treasures of Ancient Peru. Tübigen (West Germany): Verlag Ernst Wasmuth. New York: Praeger, 1966.
  
  

UCEDA, SANTIAGO and ELÍAS MUJICA, editors.

• Moche: Propuestas y Perspectivas. Actas del Primer Colquio sobre la Cultura Moche., Trujillo, 12 al 16 de abril de 1993. Trujillo, Peru: Universidad Nacioal de la Libertad, 1994.
  
  

VEGA, GARCILASO DE LA

• The Incas: The Royal Commentaries of the Inca. Translated by Maria Jolas from the critical, annotated French edition of Alain Gheerbrant. With an introduction by Alain Gheerbrant. New York: Orion, 1961.
  
  

VREELAND, JAMES M., JR.

• "Day of the Dead." Archaeology. November/December 1992: 43.

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