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Warfare in cultural context : practice, agency, and the archaeology of violence

Title
Warfare in cultural context : practice, agency, and the archaeology of violence / edited by Axel E. Nielsen and William H. Walker.
ISBN
9780816527076
0816527075
Published
Tucson : University of Arizona Press, 2009.
Physical Description
vi, 328 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
November 25, 2009
Series
Amerind studies in archaeology ; v. 3.
Amerind studies in archaeology ; v. 3
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction : the archaeology of war in practice / Axel E. Nielsen and William H. Walker
Variation in the practice of prehispanic warfare on the north coast of Peru / Theresa Lange Topic and John R. Topic
Culture and practice of war in Maya society / Takeshi Inomata and Daniela Triadan
War Is shell : the ideology and embodiment of Mississippian conflict / Charles R. Cobb and Bretton Giles
Warfare and the practice of supernatural agents / William H. Walker
Warfare in precolonial central Amazonia : when Carneiro meets Clastres / Eduardo Góes Neves
Warfare and political complexity in an egalitarian society : an ethnohistorical example / Polly Wiessner
Warfare, space, and identity in the south-central Andes : constraints and choices / Elizabeth Arkush
Ancestors at war : meaningful conflict and social process in the south Andes / Axel E. Nielsen
Wars, rumors of wars, and the production of violence / Timothy R. Pauketat.
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