Latin American Indigenous Warfare and Ritual Violence
By: edited by Richard J. Chacon and Rubén G. Mendoza
Contributors: Chacon, Richard J., 1959-; Mendoza, Ruben G
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Tucson
Language: eng
Number of pages: 293
ISBN-13: 9780816525270
Subjects: Indians -- Warfare; Indians -- Rites and ceremonies; Violence -- Latin America; Human sacrifice -- Latin America; Social archaeology -- Latin America; Violence in art; Latin America -- Territorial expansion; Latin America -- Antiquities
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-282) and index
Table of contents: title: Status rivalry and warfare in the development and collapse of classic Maya civilization / Matt O'Mansky and Arthur A. Demarest; title: Aztec militarism and blood sacrifice : the archaeology and ideology of ritual violence / Rubén G. Mendoza; title: Territorial expansion and primary state formation in Oaxaca, Mexico / Charles S. Spencer; title: Images of violence in Mesoamerican mural art / Donald McVicker; title: Circum-Caribbean chiefly warfare / Elsa M. Redmond; title: Conflict and conquest in pre-Hispanic Andean South America : archaeological evidence from northern coastal Peru / John W. Verano; title: The Inti Raymi Festival among the Cotacachi and Otavalo of highland Ecuador : blood for the earth / Richard J. Chacon, Yamilette Chacon, and Angel Guandinango; title: Upper Amazonian warfare / Stephen Beckerman and James Yost; title: Complexity and causality in Tupinambá warfare / William Balée; title: Hunter-gatherers' aboriginal warfare in western Chaco / Marcela Mendoza; title: The struggle for social life in Fuego-Patagonia / Alfredo Prieto and Rodrigo Cárdenas; title: Ethical considerations and conclusions regarding indigenous warfare and ritual violence in Latin America / Richard J. Chacon and Rubén G. Mendoza