Warfare, ritual human sacrifice, and the rubber ballgame have been the traditional categories through which scholars have examined organized violence in the artistic and material records of ancient Mesoamerica and Central America. This volume expands those traditional categories to include such concerns as gladiatorial-like boxing combats, investiture rites, trophy-head taking and display, dark shamanism, and the subjective pain inherent in acts of violence. Each author examines organized violence as a set of practices grounded in cultural understandings, even when the violence threatens the limits of those understandings. The authors scrutinize the representation of, and relationships between, different types of organized violence, as well as the implications of those activities, which can include the unexpected, such as violence as a means of determining and curing illness, and the use of violence in negotiation strategies.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Cotsen Institute of Archaeology AT Ucla
ISBN-13
9781931745802
eBay Product ID (ePID)
106258253
Product Key Features
Author
Rex Koontz, Heather Orr
Publication Name
Blood and Beauty: Organized Violence in the Art and Archaeology of Mesoamerica and Central America
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
Archaeology, History
Publication Year
2009
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
400 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
229mm
Item Width
151mm
Item Weight
891g
Additional Product Features
Series Title
Ideas, Debates, and Perspectives
Editor
Heather Orr, Rex Koontz
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
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