Revisiting Christopher Heaney's How to Make an Inca Mummy

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Amanda Herbert, « Revisiting Christopher Heaney's How to Make an Inca Mummy », The Recipes Project, ID : 10670/1.c1dsnw


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In this last "revisiting" post in our August 2020 series, we return to a piece by Christopher Heaney in 2016 to learn about sixteenth-century Europeans and their use of the dead in medical recipes. Practitioners believed that preserved bodies were powerful ingredients -- but as Heaney shows, whether these bodies originated in Egypt or in Peru, what it meant for these bodies to be non-white, and whether they could or should retain a sense of gender, was a matter of debate. Thank you for joinin...

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