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Blood and beauty : organized violence in the art and archaeology of Mesoamerica and Central America / edited by Heather Orr and Rex Koontz.
Penn Museum Library F1219.3.R56 B55 2009
By Request
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Ideas, debates, and perspectives ; v. 4.
- Ideas, debates and perspectives ; v. 4
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Indians of Mexico--Rites and ceremonies.
- Indians of Mexico.
- Indians of Central America--Rites and ceremonies.
- Indians of Central America.
- Violence--Mexico.
- Violence.
- Social archaeology.
- Mexico.
- Violence--Central America.
- Violence in art.
- Indians of Mexico--Antiquities.
- Indians of Central America--Antiquities.
- Social archaeology--Mexico.
- Social archaeology--Central America.
- Central America.
- Physical Description:
- xxviii, 370 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- [Los Angeles, CA] : Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press, 2009.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781931745802
- 1931745803
- 9781931745253
- 1931745250
- 9781931745031
- 193174503X
- 1931745587
- 9781931745581
- OCLC:
- 320802559
- Publisher Number:
- 99935940024
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