Blood and beauty : organized violence in the art and archaeology of Mesoamerica and Central America
| Weitere Verfasser: |
Koontz, Rex
Orr, Heather S. |
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| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
Los Angeles :
Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press,
2009.
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| Umfang/Format: |
xxviii, 370 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
| Schriftenreihe: |
Ideas, debates, and perspectives ;
v. 4 |
| Schlagworte: | |
| iDAI.gazetteer: |
Mexiko |
Inhaltsangabe:
- Reconsidering warfare in formative period Oaxaca / Andrew Workinger and Arthur A. Joyce
- Warrior queens among the classic Maya / Kathryn Reese-Taylor ... [et al.]
- Investiture and violence at El Tajín and Cacaxtla / Rex Koontz
- Human sacrifice in the iconography of Veracruz ballgame sculptures / John Scott
- Playing ball : competition as a political tool / Adriana Agüero and Annick Daneels
- Games, courts and players at Cotzumalhuapa, Guatemala / Oswaldo Chinchilla Mazariegos
- American gladiators : ritual boxing in ancient Mesoamerica / Karl Taube and Marc Zender
- Heads of flesh and stone / Jane Stevenson Day
- Rolling heads : the Diquís stone balls and trophy-head taking in ancient Costa Rica / Heather Orr
- Pretium dolores, or The value of pain in Mesoamerica / Claude-François Baudez
- Violent acts of curing : pre-Columbian metaphors of birth and sacrifice in the diagnosis and treatment of illness "writ large" / John W. Hoopes and David Mora-Marín
- To boast in our sufferings : the problem of pain in ancient Mesoamerica / Stephen Houston.
