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Social Violence in the Prehispanic American Southwest /

"Deborah L. Nichols and Patricia L. Crown have gathered nine contributions from a variety of disciplines to examine social violence in the prehispanic American Southwest. Not only offering specific case studies but also delving into theoretical aspects, this volume looks at archaeological inter...

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Autores Corporativos: Society for American Archaeology. Meeting, American Anthropological Association. Archeology Unit
Otros Autores: Crown, Patricia L., Nichols, Deborah L.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Tucson : University of Arizona Press, 2008.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Dismembering the trope : imagining cannibalism in the ancient Pueblo world / Randall H. McGuire and Ruth M. Van Dyke
  • An outbreak of violence and raiding in the central Mesa Verde region in the 12th century AD / Brian R. Billman
  • Chaco horrificus? / Wendy Bustard
  • Inscribed in the body, written in the bones : the consequences of social violence at La Plata / Debra L. Martin [and others]
  • Veneration or violence? a study of variations in human bone modification at La Quemada / Ventura R. Perez, Ben A. Nelson, and Debra L. Martin
  • Witches, practice, and the context of Pueblo cannibalism / William H. Walker
  • Explanation vs. sensation : the discourse of cannibalism at Awat'ovi / Peter Whiteley
  • Devouring ourselves / George J. Armelagos.