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The Bioarchaeology of Artificial Cranial Modifications - New Approaches to Head Shaping and its Meanings in Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica and Beyond (Hardcover, 2014 ed.)
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The Bioarchaeology of Artificial Cranial Modifications - New Approaches to Head Shaping and its Meanings in Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica and Beyond (Hardcover, 2014 ed.)
Series: Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology, 7
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The artificial shaping of the skull vault of infants expresses
fundamental aspects of crafted beauty, of identity, status and
gender in a way no other body practice does. Combining different
sources of information, this volume contributes new interpretations
on Mesoamerican head shaping traditions. Here, the head with its
outer insignia was commonly used as a metaphor for designating the
"self" and personhood and, as part of the body, served as a model
for the indigenous universe. Analogously, the outer "looks" of the
head and its anatomical constituents epitomized deeply embedded
worldviews and longstanding traditions. It is in this sense that
this book explores both the quotidian roles and long-standing
ideological connotations of cultural head modifications in
Mesoamerica and beyond, setting new standards in the discussion of
the scope, caveats, and future directions involved in this study.
The systematic examination of Mesoamerican skeletal series fosters
an explained review of indigenous cultural history through the lens
of emblematic head models with their nuanced undercurrents of
religious identity and ethnicity, social organization and dynamic
cultural shift. The embodied expressions of change are explored in
different geocultural settings and epochs, being most visible in
the centuries surrounding the Maya collapse and following the
cultural clash implied by the European conquest. These glimpses on
the Mesoamerican past through head practices are novel, as is the
general treatment of methodology and theoretical frames. Although
it is anchored in physical anthropology and archaeology
(specifically bioarchaeology), this volume also integrates
knowledge derived from anatomy and human physiology, historical and
iconographic sources, linguistics (polisemia) and ethnography. The
scope of this work is rounded up by the transcription and
interpretation of the many colonial eye witness accounts on
indigenous head treatments in Mesoamerica and beyond.
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