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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : électronique
Titre(s) : The taking and displaying of human body parts as trophies by Amerindians [Texte électronique] / edited by Richard J. Chacon and David H. Dye
Publication : New York : Springer, cop. 2007
Description matérielle : 1 online resource (xvii, 680 pages)
Collection : Interdisciplinary contributions to archaeology
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index. - Print version record.
"The Amerindian (American Indian or Native American -- reference to both North and
South America) practice of taking and displaying various body parts as trophies has
long intrigued both the research community as well as the public. As a subject that
is both controversial and politically charged, it has also come under attack as a
European colonists' perspective intended to denigrate native peoples. What this collection
demonstrates is that the practice of trophy-taking predates European contact in the
Americas but was also practiced in other parts of the world (Europe, Africa, Asia)
and has been practiced prehistorically, historically and up to and including the twentieth
century. This edited volume mainly focuses on this practice in both North and South
America. The editors and contributors (which include Native Peoples from both continents)
examine the evidence and causes of Amerindian trophy taking as reflected in osteological,
archaeological, ethnohistoric and ethnographic accounts. Additionally, they present
objectively and discuss dispassionately the topic of human proclivity toward ritual
violence"--Provided by publisher
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Chacon, Richard J. (1959-....). Fonction indéterminée
Dye, David H.. Fonction indéterminée
Sujet(s) : Scalp -- Amérique
Indiens d'Amérique -- Art et science militaires -- Amérique
Sciences sociales
Sciences humaines
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780387483030
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb44642839m
Notice n° :
FRBNF44642839
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : PART I. NORTH AMERICA. Introduction ; Introduction to human trophy taking: an ancient
and widespread practice ; Heads, women, and the baubles of prestige: trophies of
war in the Arctic and Subarctic ; Human trophy taking on the Northwest Coast: an
ethnohistorical perspective ; Ethynographic and linguistic evidence for the origins
of human-trophy taking in California ; Head trophies and scalping: images in Southwest
rock art ; Human finger and hand bone necklaces from the Plains and Great Basin ;
Predatory war and Hopewell trophies ; "Otinontsiskiaj ondaon" ("The House of Cut-off
Heads"): the history and archaeology of northern Iroquoian trophy taking ; Human
trophy taking in eastern North America during the archaic period: the relationship
to warfare and social complexity ; Severed heads and sacred scalplocks: Mississippian
iconographic trophies ; Disabling the dead: human trophy taking in the prehistoric
Southeast ; Trophy taking in the central and lower Mississippi Val
