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Author : Elizabeth Hill Boone
Publisher : Genealogical Publishing Company
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Aztecs
ISBN : UVA:X002736700
Author : Rubén G. Mendoza
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2024-04-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031366000
Author : Vera Tiesler,Andrea Cucina
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2007-02-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780387488714
This book examines Maya sacrifice and related posthumous body manipulation. The editors bring together an international group of contributors from the area studied: archaeologists as well as anthropologists, forensic anthropologists, art historians and bioarchaeologists. This interdisciplinary approach provides a comprehensive perspective on these sites as well as the material culture and biological evidence found there
Author : Rubén G. Mendoza,Linda Hansen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2024-04-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 3031365992
This edited volume addresses the environmental and cultural underpinnings of the kind of social conflict that spawned the origins and elaboration of ritualized human and animal sacrifice in Mesoamerica. The chapters variously document the place of cultural evolution and social complexity in the origins and elaboration of ritual human sacrifice, cannibalism, and trophy-taking across a broad spectrum of Mesoamerican cultural and social contexts that first saw the light of day before 2600 BCE, and rapidly developed and proliferated across the Mesoamerican world in the centuries to follow. They study the developments in sacrifice rituals through the centuries into the first millennium CE, when the Mexica Aztec and their allies had elevated ritual human sacrifice such that they produced a plethora of sacrificial acts, modes and manners of death, and associated deities to articulate the necro-cultures and blood-tribute of the times. The chapters further study present-day rites of Amerindian communities from throughout Mesoamerica that include paying homage to the deities of earth and sky through sacrifice and consumption of animal surrogates. The interdisciplinary effort undertaken by this international cadre of scientists, including anthropologists, bioarchaeologists, art historians, ethnohistorians, iconographers, and religious studies experts provides a particularly rich forum for launching an interrogation into the role of conflict, environment, and social complexity in the emergence and persistence of ritual violence and human sacrifice in the Mesoamerican world.
Author : David Carrasco
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012-01-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195379389
Illuminates the complexities of Aztec life. Readers meet a people highly skilled in sculpture, astronomy, city planning, poetry, and philosophy, who were also profoundly committed to cosmic regeneration through the thrust of the ceremonial knife and through warfare.
Author : David Carrasco
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2000-12-08
Category : History
ISBN : 0807046434
At an excavation of the Great Aztec Temple in Mexico City, amid carvings of skulls and a dismembered warrior goddess, David Carrasco stood before a container filled with the decorated bones of infants and children. It was the site of a massive human sacrifice, and for Carrasco the center of fiercely provocative questions: If ritual violence against humans was a profound necessity for the Aztecs in their capital city, is it central to the construction of social order and the authority of city states? Is civilization built on violence? In City of Sacrifice,Carrasco chronicles the fascinating story of Tenochtitlan, the Aztec capital, investigating Aztec religious practices and demonstrating that religious violence was integral to urbanization; the city itself was a temple to the gods. That Mexico City, the largest city on earth, was built on the ruins of Tenochtitlan, is a point Carrasco poignantly considers in his comparison of urban life from antiquity to modernity. Majestic in scope, City of Sacrifice illuminates not only the rich history of a major Meso american city but also the inseparability of two passionate human impulses: urbanization and religious engagement. It has much to tell us about many familiar events in our own time, from suicide bombings in Tel Aviv to rape and murder in the Balkans.
Author : Rex Koontz,Heather Orr
Publisher : Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2009-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781938770432
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 author examines organized violence as a set of practices grounded in cultural understandings, even when the violence threatens the limits of those understandings. The authors scrutinize the representation of, and relationships between, different types of organized violence, as well as the implications of those activities, which can include the unexpected, such as violence as a means of determining and curing illness, and the use of violence in negotiation strategies.
Author : Michael D. Coe,Rex Koontz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015079215185
Masterly....The complexities of Mexico's ancient cultures are perceptively presented and interpreted.--Library Journal
Author : Kay Almere Read
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1998-07-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0253113911
This introduction to the imaginative world of the Mexica (or Aztec) explores sacrifice in the richly textured life of 16th-century Mexico. Kay Almere Read describes a universe in which every object was timed by a given lifespan and in which sacrifice was the mechanism by which time functioned. This book makes a convincing case for what sacrifice meant religiously and for how it came to be that human sacrifice of staggering proportions could be accepted, matter-of-factly, by the Mexica people.
Author : E. Christian Wells,Karla L. Davis-Salazar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Central America
ISBN : UOM:39015069357351
"Exploring the intersection of spirituality and materiality, Mesoamerican Ritual Economy will be of interest to all scholars studying how worldview and belief motivate economic behavior."--Jacket.
Author : Colin Renfrew,Iain Morley,Michael Boyd
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781107143562
This book presents unique new insights into the development of human ritual and society through our heritage of play and performance.
Author : Jan N. Bremmer
Publisher : Peeters Publishers
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : CONFERENCE. Human sacrifice
ISBN : 9042918438
The Strange World of Human Sacrifice is the first modern collection of studies on one of the most gruesome and intriguing aspects of religion. The volume starts with a brief introduction, which is followed by studies of Aztec human sacrifice and the literary motif of human sacrifice in medieval Irish literature. Turning to ancient Greece, three cases of human sacrifice are analysed: a ritual example, a mythical case, and one in which myth and ritual are interrelated. The early Christians were the victims of accusations of human sacrifice, but in turn imputed the crime to heterodox Christians, just as the Jews imputed the crime to their neighbours. The ancient Egyptians rarely seem to have practised human sacrifice, but buried the pharaoh's servants with him in order to serve him in the afterlife, albeit only for a brief period at the very beginning of pharaonic civilization. In ancient India we can follow the traditions of human sacrifice from the earliest texts up to modern times, where especially in eastern India goddesses, such as Kali, were long worshipped with human victims. In Japanese tales human sacrifice often takes the form of self-sacrifice, and there may well be a line from these early sacrifices to modern kamikaze. The last study throws a surprising light on human sacrifice in China. The volume is concluded with a detailed index
Author : Vernon L. Scarborough,David R. Wilcox
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0816513600
The Precolumbian ballgame, played on a masonry court, has long intrigued scholars because of the magnificence of its archaeological remains. From its lowland Maya origins it spread throughout the Aztec empire, where the game was so popular that sixteen thousand rubber balls were imported annually into Tenochtitlan. It endured for two thousand years, spreading as far as to what is now southern Arizona. This new collection of essays brings together research from field archaeology, mythology, and Maya hieroglyphic studies to illuminate this important yet puzzling aspect of Native American culture. The authors demonstrate that the game was more than a spectator sport; serving social, political, mythological, and cosmological functions, it celebrated both fertility and the afterlife, war and peace, and became an evolving institution functioning in part to resolve conflict within and between groups. The contributors provide complete coverage of the archaeological, sociopolitical, iconographic, and ideological aspects of the game, and offer new information on the distribution of ballcourts, new interpretations of mural art, and newly perceived relations of the game with material in the Popol Vuh. With its scholarly attention to a subject that will fascinate even general readers, The Mesoamerican Ballgame is a major contribution to the study of the mental life and outlook of New World peoples.
Author : Brenda Ralph Lewis
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2007-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780752494821
The principle of sacrifice is as old as human life itself. This book provides an overview of sacrificial practices around the world since prehistoric times. It also examines the reasons behind these rituals, and in the case of human sacrifice an attempt is made to understand the mentality of the 'victims' who often willingly went to their deaths.
Author : David Carrasco
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Social Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105023099141
Highly regarded scholar Davíd Carrasco provides an overview of the history of Mesoamerican cultures and vivily describes their religious forms, structures, myths, and prevailing 'cosmovision'--the Mesoamerican view of time and space and its ritualized representation and enactment. Carrasco details the dynamics of two important, representative cultures--the Aztec and the Maya --and discusses the impact of the Spanish conquest and the continuity of native traditions into the post-Columbian and contemporary eras. Integrating recent archaeological discoveries in Mexico City, he brings about a comprehensive understanding of ritual human sacrifice, a subject often ignored in religious studies."--Back cover.