Actions for Latin American indigenous warfare and ritual violence
Latin American indigenous warfare and ritual violence / edited by Richard J. Chacon and Rubén G. Mendoza
- Published
- Tucson : University of Arizona Press, [2007]
- Copyright Date
- ©2007
- Physical Description
- ix, 293 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Additional Creators
- Chacon, Richard J., 1959- and Mendoza, Ruben G.
- Contents
- Status rivalry and warfare in the development and collapse of classic Maya civilization / Matt O'Mansky and Arthur A. Demarest -- Aztec militarism and blood sacrifice : the archaeology and ideology of ritual violence / Rubén G. Mendoza -- Territorial expansion and primary state formation in Oaxaca, Mexico / Charles S. Spencer -- Images of violence in Mesoamerican mural art / Donald McVicker -- Circum-Caribbean chiefly warfare / Elsa M. Redmond -- Conflict and conquest in pre-Hispanic Andean South America : archaeological evidence from northern coastal Peru / John W. Verano -- The Inti Raymi Festival among the Cotacachi and Otavalo of highland Ecuador : blood for the earth / Richard J. Chacon, Yamilette Chacon, and Angel Guandinango -- Upper Amazonian warfare / Stephen Beckerman and James Yost -- Complexity and causality in Tupinambá warfare / William Balée -- Hunter-gatherers' aboriginal warfare in western Chaco / Marcela Mendoza -- The struggle for social life in Fuego-Patagonia / Alfredo Prieto and Rodrigo Cárdenas -- Ethical considerations and conclusions regarding indigenous warfare and ritual violence in Latin America / Richard J. Chacon and Rubén G. Mendoza.
- Subject(s)
- ISBN
- 9780816525270 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0816525277 (hardcover : alk. paper) - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [249]-282) and index.
View MARC record | catkey: 3975988