New perspectives on human sacrifice and ritual body treatment in ancient Maya society

• Titel: New perspectives on human sacrifice and ritual body treatment in ancient Maya society
• Mitwirkende: Tiesler, Vera [Hrsg.]
• Mitwirkende: Cucina, Andrea
• Verf.angabe: ed. by Vera Tiesler and ...
• Verlagsort: New York [u.a.]
• Verlag: Springer
• Jahr: 2007
• Umfang: X, 319 S.
• Illustrationen: Ill.
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: Interdisciplinary contributions to archaeology
• ISBN: 978-0-387-48870-7
• ISBN: 0-387-48870-7
• Bestellnr.: 11804796
• Schlagwörter: (s)Maya / (s)Körper / (s)Ritual
• Schlagwörter: (s)Maya / (s)Menschenopfer
• Schlagwörter: (s)Maya / (s)Körper / (s)Ritual
• Schlagwörter: (s)Menschenopfer
• Sprache: eng
• Reproduktion: Online-Ausg.: New perspectives on human sacrifice and ritual body treatments in ancient Maya society. - New York, NY: Springer US, 2007. - Online-Ressource (X, 319 p, digital)
• Sonstige Nr.: Best.-Nr.: 11804796
• K10plus-PPN: 160623918X

Abstract

New perspectives on human sacrifice and postsacrifical body treatments in ancient Maya society /Andrea Cucina and Vera Tiesler --Funerary or nonfunerary? : new references in identifying ancient Maya sacrificial and postsacrificial behaviors from human assemblages /Vera Tiesler --The creation and sacrifice of witches in Classic Maya society /Lisa J. Lucero and Sherry A. Gibbs --Empowered and disempowered during the Late to Terminal Classic transition /Eleanor Harrison-Buck, Patricia A. McAnany, and Rebecca Storey --Posthumous body treatments and ritual meaning in the Classic period northern Petén /Cecilia Medina Martín and Mirna Sánchez Vargas --Human sacrifice in Late Postclassic Maya iconography and texts /Gabrielle Vail and Christine Hernández --Skeletons, skulls, and bones in the art of Chichén Itzá /Virgina E. Miller --Sacrifice and ritual body mutilation in Postclassical Maya society /Guillermo de Anda Alanís --Sacred spaces and human funerary and nonfunerary placements in Champotón, Campeche, during the Postclassic period /Araceli Hurtado Cen ... [et al.] --Human sacrificial rites among the Maya of Mayapán /Stanley Serafin and Carlos Peraza Lope --Nutrition, lifestyle, and social status of skeletal remains from nonfunerary and "problematical" contexts /Andrea Cucina and Vera Tiesler --Victims of sacrifice /T. Douglas Price ... [et al]. --The bioarchaeology of Maya sacrifice /Jane E. Buikstra.