8. Either They Decorated for Christmas Early or They're All Mummies

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The mummy conversation continues as Hannah talks about mummification practices in Mesoamerica. The ethics conversation ALSO continues as we discuss public exhibits for displaying mummified human remains and colonizing burial practices.

Created and co-hosted by Georgia Abrams and Hannah Rucinski.
Sound design by Shannon Webster.
Inspired by your mom's pillow talk.

For further reading:
Sacramento Daily Union, Volume 57, Number 104, 22 June 1887
https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SDU18870622.2.6&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------

Arriaza, Bernardo T. Beyond Death: The Chinchorro Mummies of Ancient Chile. Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1995. Print.

Rivera, Mario A. "The Preceramic Chinchorro Mummy Complex of Northern Chile: Context, Style and Purpose." Tombs for the Living: Andean Mortuary Practices. Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 1991. 43-77.

Wise, Karen. "Chinchorro Mummies." Written in Bones: How Human Remains Unlock the Secrets of the Dead. Toronto: Firefly, 2003. 166-70.

https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Scientific_Study_of_Mummies/P_xj3QTHHvoC?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA142&printsec=frontcover

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/peru/mummies/mworld2.html

https://www.perurail.com/blog/the-history-of-the-tahuantinsuyo-the-most-important-empire-in-south-america/

https://www.penn.museum/sites/expedition/frozen-mummies-of-the-andes/

https://www.dougstepsout.com/2012/05/08/the-squaw-hollow-sensation-part-1-introduction/

https://www.solarnavigator.net/mythology/mummies.htm

https://agenf.org/ojs/index.php/shs/article/view/155

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/12jqpne/when_did_mummies_become_horror_monsters_what_are/

https://web.archive.org/web/20090821203829/http://www.mummytombs.com/mummylocator/group/guanajuato.htm

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