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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Taking and Displaying of Human Body Parts as Trophies by Amerindians
  name:
    name part: CHACON, RICHARD J.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Dye, David H.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xxu
    date issued: 2007
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XVII, 680 p. online resource.
  abstract: The Amerindian (American Indian or Native American – reference to both North and South America) practice of taking and displaying various body parts as trophies has long intrigued both the research community as well as the public. As a subject that is both controversial and politically charged, it has also come under attack as a European colonists’ perspective intended to denigrate native peoples. What this collection demonstrates is that the practice of trophy-taking predates European contact in the Americas but was also practiced in other parts of the world (Europe, Africa, Asia) and has been practiced prehistorically, historically and up to and including the twentieth century. This edited volume mainly focuses on this practice 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 as reflected in osteological, archaeological, ethnohistoric and ethnographic accounts. Additionally, they present objectively and discuss dispassionately the topic of human proclivity toward ritual violence.
  table of contents: Part I: North America -- Preface William Woodworth (Mohawk Traditionalist) -- Chapter 1 Richard Chacon (Winthrop University) and David H. Dye (University of Memphis) 'Introduction to Human Trophy Taking: An Ancient and Widespread Practice.' -- Chapter 2 Herb Maschner (Idaho State University) and Katherine Reedy-Maschner (Idaho State University) 'Heads, Women, and the Baubles of Prestige: Trophies of War in the Arctic and Subarctic.' -- Chapter 3 Joan Lovisek (Lovisek Research) 'Human Trophy Taking on the Northwest Coast: An Ethnohistorical Perspective.' -- Chapter 4 Patricia Lambert (Utah State) 'Ethnographic and Linguistic Evidence for the Origins of Human-Trophy Taking in California.' -- Chapter 5 Polly Schaafsma (Museum of Indian Arts and Culture/Laboratory of Anthropology of the Museum of New Mexico) 'Head Trophies and Scalping: Images in Southwestern Rock Art.' -- Chapter 6 Douglas Owsley (Smithsonian), Karin Bruwelheide (Smithsonian), Laurie Burgess (Smithsonian) and William Billeck (Smithsonian) 'Human Finger and Hand Bone Neclaces from the Plains and Great Basin.' -- Chapter 7 Mark F. Seeman (Kent State University) 'Predatory War and Hopewell Trophy-Taking.' -- Chapter 8 Ron Williamson (Archaeological Services Inc., Canada) 'Otinontsiskiaj ondaon- ‘the house of cut-off heads’: The History and Archaeology of Northern Iroquoian Trophy-Taking.' -- Chapter 9 Robert Mensforth (Cleveland State University) 'Human Trophy Taking in Eastern North America During the Archaic Period: It’s Relationship to Warfare and Social Complexity.' -- Chapter 10 James Brown (Northwestern) and David H. Dye (University of Memphis) 'Sacred Heads and sacred Scalplocks: Mississippian Iconographic Trophies.' -- Chapter 11 Keith Jacobi (U. Alabama) 'Disabling the Dead: Human Trophy Taking in the Prehistoric Southeast.' -- Chapter 12 Nancy Ross-Stallings (Cultural Horizons Inc.) 'Trophy Taking in the Central and Lower Mississippi Valley.' -- Part II: Latin America -- Preface Alberto Esquit-C…
  note: edited by RICHARD J. CHACON, David H. Dye.
  subject:
    topic: Social sciences
  subject:
    topic: Religion
  subject:
    topic: Culture
    topic: Study and teaching
  subject:
    topic: Anthropology
  subject:
    topic: Archaeology
  subject:
    topic: Social Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Archaeology
  subject:
    topic: Anthropology
  subject:
    topic: Religious Studies, general
  subject:
    topic: Regional and Cultural Studies
  classification: CC1-960
  classification: 930.1
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
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    title info:
      title: INTERDISCIPLINARY CONTRIBUTIONS TO ARCHAEOLOGY
  identifier: 9780387483030
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-48303-0
  record info:
    record creation date: 100301
    record change date: 20151204152956.0
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