Social skins of the head : body beliefs and ritual in ancient Mesoamerica and the Andes /
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Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: ch. One Introducing the Social Skins of the Head in Ancient Mesoamerica and the Andes / Maria Cecilia Lozada
- pt. ONE MESOAMERICA
- ch. Two What Was Being Sealed?: Cranial Modification and Ritual Binding among the Maya / Gabrielle Vail
- ch. Three Head Shapes and Group Identity on the Fringes of the Maya Lowlands / Alfonso Lacadena
- ch. Four Head Shaping and Tooth Modification among the Classic Maya of the Usumacinta River Kingdoms / Andrew K. Scherer
- ch. Five Cultural Modification of the Head: The Case of Teopancazco in Teotihuacan / Linda R. Manzanilla
- ch. Six Face Painting among the Classic Maya Elites: An Iconographic Study / Patricia Horcajada Campos
- ch. Seven Importance of Visage, Facial Treatment, and Idiosyncratic Traits in Maya Royal Portraiture during the Reign of K'inich Janaab' Pakal of Palenque, 615-683 CE / Laura Filloy Nadal
- ch. Eight Representation of Hair in the Art of Chichen Itza / Virginia E. Miller
- ch. Nine Effigies of Death: Representation, Use, and Reuse of Human Skulls at the Templo Mayor of Tenochtitlan / Ximena Chavez Balderas
- ch. Ten Emic Perspectives on Cultural Practices Pertaining to the Head in Mesoamerica: A Commentary and Discussion of the Chapters in Part One / Gabrielle Vail
- pt. TWO ANDES
- ch. Eleven Afterlives of the Decapitated in Ancient Peru / John W. Verano
- ch. Twelve Head Processing in the La Ramada Tradition of Southern Peru / Raphael Greenberg
- ch. Thirteen From Wawa to "Trophy Head": Meaning, Representation, and Bioarchaeology of Human Heads from Ancient Tiwanaku / Nicole C. Couture
- ch. Fourteen Cranial Modification in the Central Andes: Person, Language, Political Economy / Matthew C. Velasco
- ch. Fifteen Violence, Power, and Head Extraction in the Kallawaya Region, Bolivia / Sonia Alconini
- ch. Sixteen Semiotic Portraits: Expressions of Communal Identity in Wari Faceneck Vessels / Andrea Vazquez De Arthur
- ch. Seventeen Using Their Heads: The Lives of Crania in the Andes / Christine A. Hastorf.