The Bioarchaeology of the Human Head : Decapitation, Decoration, and Deformation /

This title explores the symbolic significance of the human head in cultural, political, economic, and religious ritual across the world.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Bonogofsky, Michelle
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Gainesville, Fla. : University Press of Florida, 2011.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Skull > Artificial deformities.
Human remains (Archaeology)
Head > Social aspects.
Head > Abnormalities.
Cranial manipulation.
Beheading.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Customs & Traditions.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Archaeology.
Tête > Malformations.
Tête > Aspect social.
Deformations crâniennes.
Manipulation crânienne.
Decapitation.
Restes humains (Archeologie)
Body Modification, Non-Therapeutic
Decapitation
Skull > anatomy & histology
Head > abnormalities
Head > anatomy & histology
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Contextualizing the human head : an introduction / Michelle Bonogofsky
  • Heads as memorials and status symbols : the collection and use of skulls in the Torres Strait Islands / Heather Bonney and Margaret Clegg
  • Melanesian modeled skulls, mortuary ritual, and dental X-rays : ancestors, enemies, women, and children / Michelle Bonogofsky and Jeremy Graham
  • Marquesan trophy skulls : description, osteological analyses, and changing motivations in the South Pacific / Frederique Valentin and Noemie Rolland
  • The social lives of severed heads : skull collection and display in medieval and early modern Ireland / Barra O'Donnabhain
  • Identifying the origins of decapitated male skeletons from 3 Driffield Terrace, York, through isotope analysis : reflections of the cosmopolitan nature of Roman York in the time of Caracalla / Janet Montgomery, Christopher J. Knüsel, and Katie Tucker
  • Biohistory and cranial morphology : a forensic case from Spanish colonial Georgia / Christopher M. Stojanowski and William N. Duncan
  • Skull deformation during the Iron Age in the Trans-Urals and western Siberia / Svetlana Sharapova and Dmitry Razhev
  • Marking ethnicity through premortem cranial modification among the pre-Inca Chiribaya, Peru / María Cecilia Lozada
  • Getting a head start in life : pre-Columbian Maya cranial modification from infancy to ancestorhood / Pamela L. Geller
  • How the Wari fashioned trophy heads for display : a distinctive modified cranium from Cuzco, Peru, and comparison to trophies from the capital region / Valerie A. Andrushko
  • Nasca trophy head origins and ancient DNA / Kathleen Forgey.

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