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The Bioarchaeology of Artificial Cranial Modifications: New Approaches to Head Shaping and its Meanings in Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica and Beyond
Aug 23, 2016, Springer
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1493953966 9781493953967
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The bioarchaeology of artificial cranial modifications: new approaches to head shaping and its meanings in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica and beyond
2014, Springer
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1461487595 9781461487593
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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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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