Blood and beauty
Subtitle: organized violence in the art and archaeology of Mesoamerica and Central America
By: edited by Heather Orr and Rex Koontz
Series: Ideas, debates and perspectives -- v. 4; Ideas, debates, and perspectives -- v. 4.
Publisher: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: [Los Angeles, CA]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 370
ISBN-13: 9781931745802; 9781931745253; 9781931745031; 9781931745581
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Reconsidering warfare in formative period Oaxaca / Andrew Workinger and Arthur A. Joyce; title: Warrior queens among the classic Maya / Kathryn Reese-Taylor ... [et al.]; title: Investiture and violence at El Tajín and Cacaxtla / Rex Koontz; title: Human sacrifice in the iconography of Veracruz ballgame sculptures / John Scott; title: Playing ball : competition as a political tool / Adriana Agüero and Annick Daneels; title: Games, courts and players at Cotzumalhuapa, Guatemala / Oswaldo Chinchilla Mazariegos; title: American gladiators : ritual boxing in ancient Mesoamerica / Karl Taube and Marc Zender; title: Heads of flesh and stone / Jane Stevenson Day; title: Rolling heads : the Diquís stone balls and trophy-head taking in ancient Costa Rica / Heather Orr; title: Pretium dolores, or The value of pain in Mesoamerica / Claude-François Baudez; title: Violent acts of curing : pre-Columbian metaphors of birth and sacrifice in the diagnosis and treatment of illness "writ large" / John W. Hoopes and David Mora-Marín; title: To boast in our sufferings : the problem of pain in ancient Mesoamerica / Stephen Houston.