Social violence in the prehispanic American Southwest / edited by Deborah L. Nichols and Patricia L. Crown.

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: American Anthropological Association. Archeology Unit
Society for American Archaeology. Annual Meeting
Other Authors: Nichols, Deborah L.
Crown, Patricia L.
Language:English
Published: Tucson : University of Arizona Press, [2008], ©2008.
Subjects:
Indigenous peoples of North America > Southwest, New > Rites and ceremonies > Congresses.
Violence > Southwest, New > Congresses.
Cannibalism > Southwest, New > Congresses.
Human sacrifice > Southwest, New > Congresses.
Social archaeology > Southwest, New > Congresses.
New Southwest > Antiquities > Congresses.
Genre:
Congresses.
Physical Description:vi, 273 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Dismembering the trope : imagining cannibalism in the ancient Pueblo world / Randall H. McGuire and Ruth M. Van Dyke
  • An outbreak of violence and raiding in the central Mesa Verde region in the 12th century AD / Brian R. Billman
  • Chaco horrificus? / Wendy Bustard
  • Inscribed in the body, written in the bones : the consequences of social violence at La Plata / Debra L. Martin ... [et al.]
  • Veneration or violence? a study of variations in human bone modification at La Quemada / Ventura R. Pérez, Ben A. Nelson, and Debra L. Martin
  • Witches, practice, and the context of Pueblo cannibalism / William H. Walker
  • Explanation vs. sensation : the discourse of cannibalism at Awat'ovi / Peter Whiteley
  • Devouring ourselves / George J. Armelagos.