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The Taking and Displaying of Human Body Parts as Trophies by Amerindians (Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology) (Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology) by Richard J. Chacon, Richard J. Chacon; David H. Dye is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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This edited volume mainly focuses on the practice of taking and displaying various body parts as trophies in both North and South America. The editors and contributors (which include Native Peoples from both continents) examine the evidence and causes of Amerindian trophy taking. Additionally, they present objectively and discuss dispassionately the topic of human proclivity toward ritual violence. This book fills the gap in literature on this subject. Review From the reviews: "The volume edited by Chacon and David Dye is a comprehensive source book on trophy-taking in the Americas. … carefully produced, thoroughly researched, and thoughtfully written, drawing on ethnohistory and archaeology in about equal measure. … essential reading for anyone interested in the archaeology of war and violence." (Elizabeth Arkush, American Antiquity, Vol. 73 (3), 2008) "This volume of far ahead of many bioarcheological works...it should be the goal of the violence researcher (or any anthropologist for that matter) to not search for a single event that delineates and homogenizes a systematic function of a group (e.g. sacrifice, violence, or warfare) but rather try to understand how people are boun
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- Author
- Richard J. Chacon, Richard J. Chacon; David H. Dye
- Publisher
- Springer US
- Published
- 2007
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781281044488
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Science, Anthropology, Religion
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