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

by RexKoontz (Author), HeatherOrr (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  2009

  $34.44

  Contextualizes violence and violent acts within the matrix of indigenous thought and culture. This title includes chapter topics that show that desire, including localized, culturally specific, examinations of warfare, sacrifice, ballgames, boxing, pain, and healing.

• New

  Paperback
  2009

  $23.74

  Covering a broad time frame, from circa 1200 BCE to the sixteenth century, including recent ethnography, this volume endeavors to contextualize violence and violent acts within the matrix of indigenous thought and culture.