Social skins of the head : body beliefs and ritual in ancient Mesoamerica and the Andes
| Weitere Verfasser: |
Lozada, María Cecilia
, [HerausgeberIn]
Tiesler, Vera , [HerausgeberIn] |
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| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
Albuquerque :
University of New Mexico Press,
[2018].
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| Umfang/Format: |
xv, 283 pages, 14 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 29 cm. |
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Inhaltsangabe:
- Introducing the social skins of the head in ancient Mesoamerica and the Andes / Vera Tiesler and María Cecilia Lozada
- What was being sealed? : cranial modification and ritual binding among the Maya / William N. Duncan and Gabrielle Vail
- Head shapes and group identity on the fringes of the Maya lowlands / Vera Tiesler and Alfonso Lacadena
- Head shaping and tooth modification among the classic Maya of the Usumacinta River kingdoms / Andrew K. Scherer
- Cultural modification of the head : the case of Teopancazco in Teotihuacan / Luis Adrián Alvarado-Viñas and Linda R. Manzanilla
- Face painting among the classic Maya elites : an iconographic study / María Luisa Vázquez de Ágredos Pascual, Cristina Vidal Lorenzo, and Patricia Horcajada Campos
- The importance of visage, facial treatment, and idiosyncratic traits in Maya royal portraiture during the reign of K'inich Janaab' Pakal of Palenque, 615-683 CE / Laura Filloy Nadal
- ^The representation of hair in the art of Chichén Itzá / Virginia E. Miller
- Effigies of death : representation, use, and reuse of human skulls at the Templo Mayor of Tenochtitlan / Ximena Chávez Balderas
- Emic perspectives on cultural practices pertaining to the head in Mesoamerica : a commentary and discussion of the chapters in part one / Gabrielle Vail
- Afterlives of the decapitated in ancient Peru / John W. Verano
- Head processing among La Ramada tradition of Southern Peru / María Cecilia Lozada, Alanna Warner-Smith, Rex C. Haydon, Hans Barnard, Augusto Cardona Rosas, and Raphael Greenberg
- From Wawa to "Trophy Head" : meaning, representation, and bioarchaeology of human heads from ancient Tiwanaku / Deborah E. Blom and Nicole C. Couture
- Cranial modification in the central Andes : person, language, political economy / Bruce Mannheim, Allison R. Davis, and Matthew C. Velasco
- ^Violence, power, and head extraction in the Kallawaya Region, Bolivia / Sara K. Becker and Sonia Alconini
- Semiotic portraits : expressions of communal identity in Wari faceneck vessels / Andrea Vazquez de Arthur
- Using their heads : the lives of crania in the Andes / Christine A. Hastorf.
