Death and The Afterlife in Pre-Columbian America

Washington DC: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library, 1975. First Edition. Octavo. 25cm. Publisher's brown cloth titled and decorated in gilt to spine and front board. Glassine Dustjacket. 196pp. Strong and bright; internally clean, from the library of Nathaniel Tarn, noted poet, translator, and anthropologist, bearing his bookplate; in a clear glassine dustjacket with some toning and some light wear and creasing to the extremities. A near fine copy, clean and sharp.

Eight essays, delivered in the form of a conference in 1973 and first published together in 1975, using a variety of scholarly approaches to examine prevailing (and more niche) stances to death, the life of the 'soul', and the afterlife as they were represented across the Americas prior to Western colonization.