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Ritual Human Sacrifice in Mesoamerica Recent Findings and New Perspectives

This edited volume addresses the environmental and cultural underpinnings of the kind of social conflict that spawned the origins and elaboration of ritualized human and animal sacrifice in Mesoamerica. The chapters variously document the place of cultural evolution and social complexity in the orig...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Mendoza, Rubén G. (Editor), Hansen, Linda (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 2024, 2024
Edition:1st ed. 2024
Series:Conflict, Environment, and Social Complexity
Subjects:
Civilization / History
America
Ethnology
Forensic Archaeology
Political Anthropology
Cultural History
Religions
American Religions
Political And Economic Anthropology
Economic Anthropology
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Foreword by Richard J. Chacon
  • 1. Introduction Rubén G. Mendoza and Linda Hansen
  • Part I - Recent Archaeological Evidence 2. Blood Tribute, Earth Offerings, and the Formative Origins of Ritual Human Sacrifice in Mesoamerica Rubén G. Mendoza and Gary Velasco
  • 3 Shifting Perspectives on Human Sacrifice at Midnight Terror Cave, Belize Cristina Verdugo, Lars Fehren-Schmitz, and James E. Brady
  • 4. Ritual Human Sacrifice Among the Tarascans of West Mexico Cinthia Marlene Campos, José Luis Punzo-Díaz, and Carlos Karam Tapia
  • Part II - Iconographic and Contextual Evidence 5. Portals to the Gods: Reciprocity, Sacrifice, and Warfare in the Northern Mixteca Carlos Rincón Mautner
  • 6. The Hacha, Decapitation Sacrifice, and Classic Veracruz History Rex Koontz
  • 7. Blood and Water: A Mesoamerican SocialCement Annabeth Headrick
  • 8. Divine Combat, Warrior Merchants, and Ritual Sacrifice in the Mesoamerican Epiclassic, AD 750-1050 Lucha de Luna Martínez
  • 9. The Harvest of Souls: Mimesis, Materiality, and Ritual Human Sacrifice in Mesoamerica Rubén G. Mendoza
  • Part III - Emerging Theoretical Perspectives 10. Filled with Divine Fire: Mesoamerican Human Sacrifice and Costumed Rituals as Acts of Deicide Mark Wright
  • 11. Bodily Transformation and Sacralization: Human Sacrifice in Southwestern Mesoamerica Javier Urcid
  • 12. Human Sacrifice at Tula: Reputation, Representation, and Reality Keith Jordan
  • 13. The Myth of the Willing Human Sacrifice: The Complex Nature of Human Sacrifice in Aztec Ceremonialism Linda Hansen Part IV - The Ethnographic Present 14. Indigenous Sacrifice in the Christian Language: Among the Communities of the NorthernMixteca, Oaxaca, Mexico Carlos Rincón Mautner
  • 15. Deicide and Fertility in Ch’orti’ Maya Myth and Ritual Kerry Hull
  • Index

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