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Social Skins of the Head

Name: Social Skins of the Head
Brand: UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO PRESS
SKU: 9780826359636
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UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO PRESSISBN: 9780826359636

Body Beliefs and Ritual in Ancient Mesoamerica and the Andes

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Edited by Vera Tiesler, Maria Cecilia Lozada
Imprint: UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO PRESS
Release Date: November 28, 2018
Format: HARDBACK
Dimensions: 294 x 220 mm
Weight: 1090 g
Pages: 288

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The meanings of ritualized head treatments among ancient Mesoamerican and Andean peoples is the subject of this book, the first overarching coverage of an important subject. Heads are sources of power that protect, impersonate, emulate sacred forces, distinguish, or acquire identity within the native world. The essays in this book examine these themes in a wide array of indigenous head treatments, including facial cosmetics and hair arrangements, permanent cranial vault and facial modifications, dental decorations, posthumous head processing, and head hunting. They offer new insights into native understandings of beauty, power, age, gender, and ethnicity. The contributors are experts from such diverse fields as skeletal biology, archaeology, aesthetics, forensics, taphonomy, and art history.

Vera Tiesler serves as a research professor and currently heads the Laboratory of Bioarchaeology at the Universidad Autonoma de Yucatan, Merida, Mexico. Her most recent book is The Bioarchaeology of Artificial Cranial Modifications: New Approaches to Head Shaping and Its Meanings in Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica and Beyond. Maria Cecilia Lozada is a Peruvian bioarchaeologist who has been conducting archaeological research in the South Central Andes for the last twenty years. She holds a PhD in anthropology from the University of Chicago and is currently a research associate in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Chicago.

Successfully combining ethnography, archaeology, skeletal biology, and art history into a powerful and insightful exploration of ancient culture, this volume provides an essential blueprint for cross-disciplinary research."" - Gabriel D. Wrobel, editor of The Bioarchaeology of Space and Place: Ideology, Power, and Meaning in Maya Mortuary Contexts

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