The Taking and Displaying of Human Body Parts as Trophies by Amerindians
Publication year: 2007
: 978-0-387-48303-0
This edited volume mainly focuses on this practice in both North and South America. The editors and contributors examine the evidence and causes of Amerindian trophy taking as reflected in osteological, archaeological, ethnohistoric and ethnographic accounts.
: Humanities, Social Science and Law, Amerindian, Archaic period in North America, Evolution, Glas, Human trophy taking, Mesoamerica, North and South America, Ritual, Vor- und Frühgeschichte, complexity, inca, mayans, native peoples
