The Sacred Executioner: Human Sacrifice and the Legacy of Guilt [Hardcover]

Hyam MacCoby (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 208 pages
• Publisher: Thames & Hudson; 1st Ed. (U.S.) edition (January 1983)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0500012814
• ISBN-13: 978-0500012819
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.5 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,547,504 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Read, August 20, 2006

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Melissa Rene Cody "The Lorax" (Salem, MO, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Sacred Executioner: Human Sacrifice and the Legacy of Guilt (Hardcover)

This author, being outside of the government-approved anthropological system, is able to get a behind-the-scenes look at the real, on-going cultures in parts of South America, which continue to practice human sacrifice. He also has done extensive research in human sacrifice; and this book led me to investigate others like it.

This author details his own travels and digs at high altitude archaeology. It is a very rivoting book for more reasons than the often too-morbid topic of human sacrifice, because it also shows a side of culture and history in the Andean mountains that is rarely talked about or known.

It's an excellent read.