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Titre(s) : Social skins of the head [Texte imprimé] : body beliefs and ritual in ancient Mesoamerica and the Andes / edited by Vera Tiesler and María Cecilia Lozada
Publication : Albuquerque : University of New Mexico press, 2018
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (283 p.) : ill. ; 28 cm
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
"The meanings of ritualized head treatments among ancient Mesoamerican and Andean
peoples is the subject of this book, the first overarching coverage of an important
subject. Heads are sources of power that protect, impersonate, emulate sacred forces,
distinguish, or acquire identity within the native world. The essays in this book
examine these themes in a wide array of indigenous head treatments, including facial
cosmetics and hair arrangements, permanent cranial vault and facial modifications,
dental decorations, posthumous head processing, and head hunting. They offer new insights
into native understandings of beauty, power, age, gender, and ethnicity. The contributors
are experts from such diverse fields as skeletal biology, archaeology, aesthetics,
forensics, taphonomy, and art history."
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Tiesler Blos, Vera. Éditeur scientifique
Lozada, María Cecilia. Éditeur scientifique
Sujet(s) : Indiens d'Amérique -- Craniologie
Indiens d'Amérique -- Anthropométrie
Indice(s) Dewey :
305.897 4152 (23e éd.) = Sociologie des Mayas
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780826359643. - ISBN 0826359647. - ISBN 9780826359636 (erroné). - ISBN 0826359639
(erroné) (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45595975g
Notice n° :
FRBNF45595975
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Table des matières : 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
