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Title:

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

Publisher:

University of Arizona Press,

Copyright Date:

c2008

Description:

vi, 273 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Indians 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.
Southwest, New--Antiquities--Congresses.

Other Authors:

Nichols, Deborah L.
Crown, Patricia L.
American Anthropological Association. Archeology Unit
Society for American Archaeology. Meeting (66th : 2001 : New Orleans, La.)

Notes:

Outgrowth of a symposium sponsored by the Archeology Division of the American Anthropological Association at the [66th] Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology [held in New Orleans, Louisiana, in April, 2001]. Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-260) and index.

Contents:

Devouring ourselves / George J. Armelagos. 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. P©♭rez, 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.

ISBN:

0816526214 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780816526215 (hardcover : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)183162403

LCCN:

2007049343

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)