The bioarchaeology of artificial cranial modifications : new approaches to head shaping and its meanings in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica and beyond /
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Author / Creator: | Tiesler, Vera, author. |
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Imprint: | New York : Springer, [2014] ©2014 |
Description: | 1 online resource (xxvii, 269 pages) : illustrations, map. |
Language: | English |
Series: | Interdisciplinary contributions to archaeology Interdisciplinary contributions to archaeology. |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11081598 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Part I. Interdisciplinary approaches to artificial cranial modification. Cultural frameworks for studying artificial cranial modifications : physical embodiment, identity, age, and gender ; Cranial expansion and artificial vault modifications ; Reconstructing ancient head-shaping traditions from the skeletal record ; Source compilation on head-shaping practices in Hispanic America / by Pilar Zabala
- Part II. Regional practices and their cultural meanings in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica and beyond. Meanings of head-shaping practices in Mesoamerica ; Emulating Olmec gods through head form. Origins and the preclassic period ; Head shapes in classic period Mesoamerica ; Growing up Maya. Gender, identity and dynasty ; Head-shaping during the second millennium. Postclassic and postcontact Mesoamerica ; Conclusions : new perspectives for studying head-shaping practices in Mesoamerica.