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Blood and Beauty: Organized Violence in the Art and Archaeology of Mesoamerica and Central America (Ideas, Debates and Perspectives)

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 | #3071225 in Books |  Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press |  2009-09-30 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.90 x.80 x6.00l,1.65 | File type: PDF | 400 pages

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||4 of 5 people found the following review helpful.| Bloody but Beautiful|By Richard C. Hall|An important contribution to New World archaeology. A worthy successor to The Mesoamerican Ballgame and The Sport of Life and Death. Despite Taube and Zender's ambiguity as to what is and is not a ballgame or a boxing contest, this collection of essays is a valuable tool in understanding ancient Mesoamerica.| |This book is recommended for any academic or museum library that supports research into the art and archaeology of Mesoamerica and Central America.' (Kim Collins ARLIS/NA s, April/May 2010)|From the Inside Flap||Au

Warfare, ritual human sacrifice, and the rubber ballgame have been the traditional categories through which scholars have examined organized violence in the artistic and material records of ancient Mesoamerica and Central America. This volume expands those traditional categories to include such concerns as gladiatorial-like boxing combats, investiture rites, trophy-head taking and display, dark shamanism, and the subjective pain inherent in acts of violence. Each auth...

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