Ritual Human Sacrifice In Mesoamerica

Author : Vera Tiesler
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 0387488715
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Perspectives on Human Sacrifice and Ritual Body Treatments in Ancient Maya Society written by Vera Tiesler and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-02-15 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines Maya sacrifice and related posthumous body manipulation. The editors bring together an international group of contributors from the area studied: archaeologists as well as anthropologists, forensic anthropologists, art historians and bioarchaeologists. This interdisciplinary approach provides a comprehensive perspective on these sites as well as the material culture and biological evidence found there

Author : Elizabeth Hill Boone
Publisher : Genealogical Publishing Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ritual Human Sacrifice in Mesoamerica written by Elizabeth Hill Boone and published by Genealogical Publishing Company. This book was released on 1984 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Rubén G. Mendoza
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 303136600X
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ritual Human Sacrifice in Mesoamerica written by Rubén G. Mendoza and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David Carrasco
Publisher : OUP USA
ISBN 13 : 0195379381
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Aztecs written by David Carrasco and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2012-01-26 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illuminates the complexities of Aztec life. Readers meet a people highly skilled in sculpture, astronomy, city planning, poetry, and philosophy, who were also profoundly committed to cosmic regeneration through the thrust of the ceremonial knife and through warfare.

Author : Michael D. Coe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mexico written by Michael D. Coe and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Masterly....The complexities of Mexico's ancient cultures are perceptively presented and interpreted.--Library Journal

Author : David Carrasco
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807046432
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book City of Sacrifice written by David Carrasco and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2000-12-08 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At an excavation of the Great Aztec Temple in Mexico City, amid carvings of skulls and a dismembered warrior goddess, David Carrasco stood before a container filled with the decorated bones of infants and children. It was the site of a massive human sacrifice, and for Carrasco the center of fiercely provocative questions: If ritual violence against humans was a profound necessity for the Aztecs in their capital city, is it central to the construction of social order and the authority of city states? Is civilization built on violence? In City of Sacrifice,Carrasco chronicles the fascinating story of Tenochtitlan, the Aztec capital, investigating Aztec religious practices and demonstrating that religious violence was integral to urbanization; the city itself was a temple to the gods. That Mexico City, the largest city on earth, was built on the ruins of Tenochtitlan, is a point Carrasco poignantly considers in his comparison of urban life from antiquity to modernity. Majestic in scope, City of Sacrifice illuminates not only the rich history of a major Meso american city but also the inseparability of two passionate human impulses: urbanization and religious engagement. It has much to tell us about many familiar events in our own time, from suicide bombings in Tel Aviv to rape and murder in the Balkans.

Author : Rex Koontz
Publisher : Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press
ISBN 13 : 1938770439
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blood and Beauty written by Rex Koontz and published by Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press. This book was released on 2009-12-31 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Warfare, ritual human sacrifice, and the rubber ballgame have been the traditional categories through which scholars have examined organized violence in the artistic and material records of ancient Mesoamerica and Central America. This volume expands those traditional categories to include such concerns as gladiatorial-like boxing combats, investiture rites, trophy-head taking and display, dark shamanism, and the subjective pain inherent in acts of violence. Each author examines organized violence as a set of practices grounded in cultural understandings, even when the violence threatens the limits of those understandings. The authors scrutinize the representation of, and relationships between, different types of organized violence, as well as the implications of those activities, which can include the unexpected, such as violence as a means of determining and curing illness, and the use of violence in negotiation strategies.

Author : E. Christian Wells
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mesoamerican Ritual Economy written by E. Christian Wells and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Exploring the intersection of spirituality and materiality, Mesoamerican Ritual Economy will be of interest to all scholars studying how worldview and belief motivate economic behavior."--Jacket.

Author : Saburo Sugiyama
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521780568
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.6X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Human Sacrifice, Militarism, and Rulership written by Saburo Sugiyama and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-03-10 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An archaeological examination of the Feathered Serpent Pyramid as a symbol of power in Teotihuacan.

Author : Kay Almere Read
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253113917
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Time and Sacrifice in the Aztec Cosmos written by Kay Almere Read and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1998-07-22 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This introduction to the imaginative world of the Mexica (or Aztec) explores sacrifice in the richly textured life of 16th-century Mexico. Kay Almere Read describes a universe in which every object was timed by a given lifespan and in which sacrifice was the mechanism by which time functioned. This book makes a convincing case for what sacrifice meant religiously and for how it came to be that human sacrifice of staggering proportions could be accepted, matter-of-factly, by the Mexica people.