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The Taking and Displaying of Human Body Parts as Trophies by Amerindians
Author | : Richard J. Chacon,David H. Dye |
Publsiher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 694 |
Release | : 2007-08-21 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780387483030 |
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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.
The Ethics of Anthropology and Amerindian Research
Author | : Richard J. Chacon,Rubén G. Mendoza |
Publsiher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 531 |
Release | : 2011-12-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781461410652 |
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The decision to publish scholarly findings bearing on the question of Amerindian environmental degradation, warfare, and/or violence is one that weighs heavily on anthropologists. This burden stems from the fact that documentation of this may render descendant communities vulnerable to a host of predatory agendas and hostile modern forces. Consequently, some anthropologists and community advocates alike argue that such culturally and socially sensitive, and thereby, politically volatile information regarding Amerindian-induced environmental degradation and warfare should not be reported. This admonition presents a conundrum for anthropologists and other social scientists employed in the academy or who work at the behest of tribal entities. This work documents the various ethical dilemmas that confront anthropologists, and researchers in general, when investigating Amerindian communities. The contributions to this volume explore the ramifications of reporting--and, specifically,--of non-reporting instances of environmental degradation and warfare among Amerindians. Collectively, the contributions in this volume, which extend across the disciplines of archaeology, anthropology, ethnohistory, ethnic studies, philosophy, and medicine, argue that the non-reporting of environmental mismanagement and violence in Amerindian communities generally harms not only the field of anthropology but the Amerindian populations themselves.
Making Indigenous Citizens
Author | : María Elena García |
Publsiher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0804750157 |
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Taking on existing interpretations of "Peruvian exceptionalism," this book presents a multi-sited ethnographic exploration of the local and transnational articulations of indigenous movements, multicultural development policies, and indigenous citizenship in Peru.
Social Skins of the Head
Author | : Vera Tiesler,María Cecilia Lozada |
Publsiher | : University of New Mexico Press |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2018-09-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780826359643 |
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The meanings of ritualized head treatments among ancient Mesoamerican and Andean peoples is the subject of this book, the first overarching coverage of an important subject. Heads are sources of power that protect, impersonate, emulate sacred forces, distinguish, or acquire identity within the native world. The essays in this book examine these themes in a wide array of indigenous head treatments, including facial cosmetics and hair arrangements, permanent cranial vault and facial modifications, dental decorations, posthumous head processing, and head hunting. They offer new insights into native understandings of beauty, power, age, gender, and ethnicity. The contributors are experts from such diverse fields as skeletal biology, archaeology, aesthetics, forensics, taphonomy, and art history.
Native American Adoption Captivity and Slavery in Changing Contexts
Author | : M. Carocci,S. Pratt |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 267 |
Release | : 2012-01-02 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781137010520 |
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Radically rethinks the theoretical parameters through which we interpret both current and past ideas of captivity, adoption, and slavery among Native American societies in an interdisciplinary perspective. Highlights the importance of the interaction between perceptions, representations and lived experience associated with the facts of slavery.
War Peace and Human Nature
Author | : Douglas P. Fry |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 583 |
Release | : 2015-02 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780190232467 |
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"The chapters in this book [posit] that humans clearly have the capacity to make war, but since war is absent in some cultures, it cannot be viewed as a human universal. And counter to frequent presumption, the actual archaeological record reveals the recent emergence of war. It does not typify the ancestral type of human society, the nomadic forager band, and contrary to widespread assumptions, there is little support for the idea that war is ancient or an evolved adaptation. Views of human nature as inherently warlike stem not from the facts but from cultural views embedded in Western thinking"--Amazon.com.
Violence and Warfare among Hunter Gatherers
Author | : Mark W Allen,Terry L Jones |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 426 |
Release | : 2016-07-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781315415956 |
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How did warfare originate? Was it human genetics? Social competition? The rise of complexity? Intensive study of the long-term hunter-gatherer past brings us closer to an answer. The original chapters in this volume examine cultural areas on five continents where there is archaeological, ethnographic, and historical evidence for hunter-gatherer conflict despite high degrees of mobility, small populations, and relatively egalitarian social structures. Their controversial conclusions will elicit interest among anthropologists, archaeologists, and those in conflict studies.
Bioarchaeology
Author | : Debra L. Martin,Ryan P. Harrod,Ventura R. Pérez |
Publsiher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 277 |
Release | : 2013-03-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781461463788 |
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Bioarchaeology is the analysis of human remains within an interpretative framework that includes contextual information. This comprehensive and much-needed manual provides both a starting point and a reference for archaeologists, bioarchaeologists and others working in this integrative field. The authors cover a range of bioarchaeological methods and theory including: Ethical issues involved in dealing with human remains Theoretical approaches in bioarchaeology Techniques in taphonomy and bone analysis Lab and forensic techniques for skeletal analysis Best practices for excavation techniques Special applications in bioarchaeology With case studies from bioarchaeological research, the authors integrate theoretical and methodological discussion with a wide range of field studies from different geographic areas, time periods, and data types, to demonstrate the full scope of this important field of study.