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Title:
Embattled bodies, embattled places : war in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica and the Andes / Andrew K. Scherer and John W. Verano, editors.
Publisher:
Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection,
Copyright Date:
2014
Description:
viii, 424 pages : illustrations, maps ; 29 cm.
Subject:
Indians of Mexico--History--History--To 1500.
Indians of Central America--History--History--To 1500.
Indians of South America--History--Andes Region--History--To 1500.
Indians of Mexico--Antiquities.
Indians of Central America--Antiquities.
Indians of South America--Andes Region--Antiquities.
Other Authors:
Scherer, Andrew K., editor of compilation.
Verano, John W., editor of compilation.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introducing war in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica and the Andes / Andrew K. Scherer and John W. Verano -- War, violence, and society in the Maya lowlands / Takeshi Inomata -- War in the west : history, landscape, and classic Maya conflict / Andrew K. Scherer and Charles Golden -- Invasion : the Maya at war, 1520s-1540s / Matthew Restall -- Warfare in late/terminal formative period Oaxaca / Arthur A. Joyce -- Aztec battlefields of eastern Guerrero : an archaeological and ethnohistorical analysis of the operational theater of the Tlapanec War / Gerardo Gutierrez -- Sacrifice at the Templo Mayor of Tenochtitlan and its role in regard to warfare / Ximena Chavez Balderas -- "I against my brother" : warfare, segmentation, and confederation in the south-central Andes in late prehistory / Elizabeth Arkush -- Making warriors, making war : violence and militarism in the Wari empire / Tiffiny A. Tung -- Taming the Moche / Luis Jaime Castillo Butters -- Warfare and captive sacrifice in the Moche culture : the battle continues / John W. Verano -- A materiality of opposition : on ancient Andean conflict and organization in northern Peru / George F. Lau -- The fall of Kuelap : bioarchaeological analysis of death and destruction on the eastern slopes of the Andes / J. Marla Toyne and L. Alfredo Narvaez Vargas -- The scope of Inca warfare as an imperial strategy of conquest and control / Dennis E. Ogburn -- Some concluding remarks : the view from outside / John Haldon.
Series:
Dumbarton Oaks Pre-Columbian symposia and colloquia
ISBN:
0884023958 (cloth)
9780884023951 (cloth)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)840934549
LCCN:
2013011916
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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