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Social Skins of the Head - Body Beliefs and Ritual in Ancient Mesoamerica and the Andes (Hardcover)
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Social Skins of the Head - Body Beliefs and Ritual in Ancient Mesoamerica and the Andes (Hardcover)
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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.
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