New perspectives on human sacrifice and ritual body treatment in ancient Maya society / edited by Vera Tiesler and Andrea Cucina.
The central goal of this book is to contribute to the timely discussion and understanding of Maya sacrifice and related posthumous body manipulation. Most school children in the US learn about the Maya and their practices based on their cultural and religious beliefs in their Social Studies classes....
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[2007]
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Table of Contents:
- New perspectives on human sacrifice and postsacrifical body treatments in ancient Maya society / Andrea Cucina and Vera Tiesler
- Funerary or nonfunerary? : new references in identifying ancient Maya sacrificial and postsacrificial behaviors from human assemblages / Vera Tiesler
- The creation and sacrifice of witches in Classic Maya society / Lisa J. Lucero and Sherry A. Gibbs
- Empowered and disempowered during the Late to Terminal Classic transition / Eleanor Harrison-Buck, Patricia A. McAnany, and Rebecca Storey
- Posthumous body treatments and ritual meaning in the Classic period northern Petén / Cecilia Medina Martín and Mirna Sánchez Vargas
- Human sacrifice in Late Postclassic Maya iconography and texts / Gabrielle Vail and Christine Hernández
- Skeletons, skulls, and bones in the art of Chichén Itzá / Virginia E. Miller
- Sacrifice and ritual body mutilation in Postclassical Maya society / Guillermo de Anda Alanís
- Sacred spaces and human funerary and nonfunerary placements in Champotón, Campeche, during the Postclassic period / Araceli Hurtado Cen [and others]
- Human sacrificial rites among the Maya of Mayapán / Stanley Serafin and Carlos Peraza Lope
- Nutrition, lifestyle, and social status of skeletal remains from nonfunerary and "problematical" contexts / Andrea Cucina and Vera Tiesler
- Victims of sacrifice / T. Douglas Price [and others].
- The bioarchaeology of Maya sacrifice / Jane E. Buikstra.