Blood and beauty
Subtitle: organized violence in the art and archaeology of Mesoamerica and Central America
By: edited by Heather Orr and Rex Koontz.
Contributors: Orr, Heather S.; Koontz, Rex.
Series: Ideas, debates and perspectives -- v. 4
Publisher: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press; Cotsen Institute of Archaeology; The Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Los Angeles
Language: eng
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9781931745802; 9781931745253
Subjects: Indians of Mexico -- Rites and ceremonies; Indians of Central America -- Rites and ceremonies; Violence -- Mexico; Violence -- Central America; Violence in art; Indians of Mexico -- Antiquities; Indians of Central America -- Antiquities; Social archaeology -- Mexico; Social archaeology -- Central America
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Reconsidering warfare in formative period Oaxaca / Andrew Workinger and Arthur 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: Competition as a political tool / Adriana Agüero and Annick Daneels; title: Games, courts and players at Cotzumalhuapa, Guatemala / Oswaldo Chinchilla; title: American gladiators : ritual boxing in ancient Mesoamerica / Karl Taube and Marc Zender; title: Heads of flesh and stone / Jane Day; title: Rolling heads : the Diquis stone balls and trophy head taking in ancient Costa Rica / Heather Orr; title: Pretium dolores, or, The value of pain in Mesoamerica / Claude Baudez; title: Violent acts of curing : precolumbian metaphors of birth and sacrifice in the diagnosis and treatment of illness "writ large" / John Hoopes and David Mora-Marín; title: To boast in our sufferings : the problem of pain in ancient Mesoamerica / Stephen Houston.