Warfare in cultural context
Subtitle: practice, agency, and the archaeology of violence
By: edited by Axel E. Nielsen and William H. Walker.
Contributors: Nielsen, Axel E.; Walker, William H., 1964-
Series: Amerind studies in archaeology -- v. 3; Amerind studies in archaeology -- v. 3.
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Tucson
Language: eng
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780816527076
Subjects: Indians -- Warfare; Indians -- Rites and ceremonies; Warfare, Prehistoric -- America; Social archaeology -- America; Violence -- America -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : the archaeology of war in practice  -- Axel E. Nielsen and William H. Walker; title: Variation in the practice of prehispanic warfare on the north coast of Peru  -- Theresa Lange Topic and John R. Topic; title: Culture and practice of war in Maya society  -- Takeshi Inomata and Daniela Triadan; title: War Is shell : the ideology and embodiment of Mississippian conflict  -- Charles R. Cobb and Bretton Giles; title: Warfare and the practice of supernatural agents  -- William H. Walker; title: Warfare in precolonial central Amazonia : when Carneiro meets Clastres  -- Eduardo Góes Neves; title: Warfare and political complexity in an egalitarian society : an ethnohistorical example  -- Polly Wiessner; title: Warfare, space, and identity in the south-central Andes : constraints and choices  -- Elizabeth Arkush; title: Ancestors at war : meaningful conflict and social process in the south Andes  -- Axel E. Nielsen; title: Wars, rumors of wars, and the production of violence -- Timothy R. Pauketat.