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Embattled Bodies, Embattled Places - War in Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica and the Andes (Hardcover)
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Embattled Bodies, Embattled Places - War in Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica and the Andes (Hardcover)
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With spears and arrows, atl-atls and slings, the people of the New
World fought to defend themselves against European invasion and
conquest. Over a century of scholarship on warfare has
substantially enhanced our understanding of the scope and scale of
violent conflict in Pre-Columbian America. Yet we still struggle to
understand the nuances of indigenous warfare and its importance for
native politics and society. This volume sheds new light on the
nature of war in Mesoamerica and the Andes. Relying on
methodological and theoretical developments in anthropological
archaeology, bioarchaeology, and ethnohistory, contributors
highlight the particularities of warfare in indigenous societies
and examine the commonalities of warfare in cross-cultural
perspective. Their essays focus on place and the body, as they
explore the importance of captive-taking, sacrifice, performance,
and political history in the conduct of war. Observers have debated
whether the indigenous peoples of the Americas were distinctly
noble or frightfully savage in their way of war. This volume shows
that such polarized positions are unfounded. By focusing on the
nuances of indigenous violent conflict, the contributors
demonstrate that war in the Americas was much like war elsewhere in
the ancient and modern world: strategic, political, bloody,
socially productive, yet terribly destructive.
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