Blood and Beauty : Organized Violence in the Art and Archaeology of Mesoamerica and Central America
Blood and Beauty brings together a diverse, prestigious group of contributors to debate this charged topic in an open, critical and frank interchange. Authors specializing in the anthropology, archaeology, art history, and linguistics of Mesoamerica and Central America bring new data and interpretive strategies to bear on the nature of institutional violence in these ancient societies. The volume covers a broad time frame, from circa 1200 B.C.E. to the sixteenth century, including recent...
Search in google:
Blood and Beauty brings together a diverse, prestigious group of contributors to debate this charged topic in an open, critical and frank interchange. Authors specializing in the anthropology, archaeology, art history, and linguistics of Mesoamerica and Central America bring new data and interpretive strategies to bear on the nature of institutional violence in these ancient societies. The volume covers a broad time frame, from circa 1200 B.C.E. to the sixteenth century, including recent ethnography. The volume endeavors to contextualize violence and violent acts within the matrix of indigenous thought and culture. Chapter topics reflect that desire, including localized, culturally specific, examinations of warfare, sacrifice, ballgames, boxing, pain, and healing. While there is no overarching theoretical perspective, the contributors are sensitive to current theoretical discourse in the field, including recent perspectives on organized violence and the agency of artworks.
Introduction xiiiSection I Warfare 1Chapter 1 Reconsidering Warfare in Formative Period Oaxaca Andrew Workinger Arthur A. Joyce 3Chapter 2 Warrior Queens among the Classic Maya Kathryn Reese-Taylor Peter Mathews Julia Guernsey Marlene Fritzler 39Chapter 3 Investiture and Violence at El TajÍn and Cacaxtla Rex Koontz 73Section II Ballgames and Boxing 97Chapter 4 Human Sacrifice in the Iconography of Veracruz Ballgame Sculptures John Scott 99Chapter 5 Playing Ball-Competition as a Political Tool Adriana Agüero Annick Daneeh 117Chapter 6 Games, Courts, and Players at Cotzumalhuapa, Guatemala Oswaldo Chinchilla Mazariegos 139Chapter 7 American Gladiators: Ritual Boxing in Ancient Mesoamerica Karl Tauhe Marc Zender 161Section III Trophy-Head Taking 221Chapter 8 Heads of Flesh and Stone Jane Stevenson Day 223Chapter 9 Rolling Heads: The DiquÍs Stone Balls and Trophy-Head Taking in Ancient Costa Rica Heather Orr 247Section IV Pain And Healing 267Chapter 10 Pretjum Dolores, Or the Value of Pain in Mesoamerica Claude-François Eaudez 269Chapter 11 Violent Acts of Curing: Pre-Columbian Metaphors of Birth and Sacrifice in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Illness "Writ Large" John W. Hooves David Mora-Marin 291Chapter 12 To Boast in Our Sufferings: The Problem of Pain in Ancient Mesoamerica Stephen Houston 331Contributors 341Index 349
