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The Taking and Displaying of Human Body Parts as Trophies by Amerindians: (Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology)

The Taking and Displaying of Human Body Parts as Trophies by Amerindians: (Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology)

          
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The Amerindian (American Indian or Native American - reference to both North and South America) practice of taking and displaying various body parts as trophies has long intrigued both the research community as well as the public. As a subject that is both controversial and politically charged, it has also come under attack as a European colonists' perspective intended to denigrate native peoples.

What this collection demonstrates is that the practice of trophy-taking predates European contact in the Americas but was also practiced in other parts of the world (Europe, Africa, Asia) and has been practiced prehistorically, historically and up to and including the twentieth century.

This edited volume mainly focuses on this practice in both North and South America. The editors and contributors (which include Native Peoples from both continents) examine the evidence and causes of Amerindian trophy taking as reflected in osteological, archaeological, ethnohistoric and ethnographic accounts. Additionally, they present objectively and discuss dispassionately the topic of human proclivity toward ritual violence.



Table of Contents:
Part I: North America.- Preface William Woodworth (Mohawk Traditionalist).- Chapter 1 Richard Chacon (Winthrop University) and David H. Dye (University of Memphis) 'Introduction to Human Trophy Taking: An Ancient and Widespread Practice.'.- Chapter 2 Herb Maschner (Idaho State University) and Katherine Reedy-Maschner (Idaho State University) 'Heads, Women, and the Baubles of Prestige: Trophies of War in the Arctic and Subarctic.'.- Chapter 3 Joan Lovisek (Lovisek Research) 'Human Trophy Taking on the Northwest Coast: An Ethnohistorical Perspective.'.- Chapter 4 Patricia Lambert (Utah State) 'Ethnographic and Linguistic Evidence for the Origins of Human-Trophy Taking in California.'.- Chapter 5 Polly Schaafsma (Museum of Indian Arts and Culture/Laboratory of Anthropology of the Museum of New Mexico) 'Head Trophies and Scalping: Images in Southwestern Rock Art.'.- Chapter 6 Douglas Owsley (Smithsonian), Karin Bruwelheide (Smithsonian), Laurie Burgess (Smithsonian) and William Billeck (Smithsonian) 'Human Finger and Hand Bone Neclaces from the Plains and Great Basin.' .- Chapter 7 Mark F. Seeman (Kent State University) 'Predatory War and Hopewell Trophy-Taking.'.- Chapter 8 Ron Williamson (Archaeological Services Inc., Canada) 'Otinontsiskiaj ondaon- ‘the house of cut-off heads’: The History and Archaeology of Northern Iroquoian Trophy-Taking.'.- Chapter 9 Robert Mensforth (Cleveland State University) 'Human Trophy Taking in Eastern North America During the Archaic Period: It’s Relationship to Warfare and Social Complexity.'.- Chapter 10 James Brown (Northwestern) and David H. Dye (University of Memphis) 'Sacred Heads and sacred Scalplocks: Mississippian Iconographic Trophies.'.- Chapter 11 Keith Jacobi (U. Alabama) 'Disabling the Dead: Human Trophy Taking in thePrehistoric Southeast.'.- Chapter 12 Nancy Ross-Stallings (Cultural Horizons Inc.) 'Trophy Taking in the Central and Lower Mississippi Valley.' .- Part II: Latin America.- Preface Alberto Esquit-Choy(Ph.D candidate, Vanderbilt University): Kaqchikel Mayan indigenous leader.- Chapter 13 Carrie Anne Berryman (Ph.D candidate, Vanderbilt) 'Captive Sacrifice and Trophy Taking among the Ancient Maya: An Evaluation of the Bioarchaeological Evidence and its Sociopolitical Implications.'.- Chapter 14 Ruben Mendoza (CSUMB) 'The Divine Gourd Tree: Tzompanlti Skull Racks, Decapitation Rituals, and Human Trophies in Ancient Mesoamerica.'.- Chapter 15 John Hoopes (U. Kansas) 'Sorcery and Trophy Head Taking in Ancient Costa Rica.'.- Chapter 16 Tiffiny Tung (Vanderbilt) 'From Corporeality to Sanctity: Transforming Bodies into Trophy Heads in the Prehispanic Andes.'.- Chapter 17 Dennis Ogburn (UC Berkeley) 'Human Trophies in the Late Pre-Hispanic Andes: Display, Propaganda and Reinforcement of Power among the Incas and Other Societies.'.- Chapter 18 Richard J. Chacon (Winthrop University) 'Seeking the Headhunter’s Power:The Quest for Arutam Among the Achuar of the Ecuadorian Amazon and the Evolution of Ranked Societies.'.- Chapter 19 James Petersen (U. Vermont) and John Crock (U. Vermont) 'Handsome Death: The Taking, Veneration, and Consumption of Human Remains in the Insular Caribbean and Greater Amazonia.'.- Chapter 20 Marcela Mendoza (University of Oregon) 'Human Trophy Taking in the South American Gran Chaco.' .- Chapter 21 Arthur Demarest (Vanderbilt) 'The Ethical Issues Surrounding Research on Amerindian Trophy Taking.'.- Chapter 22 Richard J. Chacon (Winthrop University) and David H. Dye (University of Memphis) 'Supplemental Data on Amerindian Trophy Taking.'.- Chapter 23Richard J. Chacon (Winthrop University) and David H. Dye (University of Memphis) 'Conclusions.'


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780387769837
  • Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
  • Publisher Imprint: Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
  • Depth: 38
  • Height: 235 mm
  • No of Pages: 680
  • Series Title: Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology
  • Weight: 965 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0387769838
  • Publisher Date: 28 Feb 2008
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Edition: 2008 ed.
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 36 mm
  • Width: 155 mm


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