Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-279) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Headhunting in the Andes; Methods and the Organization of the Book; Part I -- The Ethnography of Andean Head Taking and Power; 1. Heads in Small-scale Polities; 2. The Captured Fetish, the Mountain Chest, and Sacrifice; 3. Drinking the Power of the Dead; 4. The Nested Power of Modern Andean Hierarchies; Part II -- The Archaeology of Andean Head Taking and Power; 5. Heads and the Consolidation of Andean Political Power; 6. Heads and Andean Political Change from an Archaeological Perspective; 7. Central Andean Political Developments.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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Addresses the importance of the human head in political, ritual and symbolic contexts in the ancient and modern Andes.
OTHER EDITION IN ANOTHER MEDIUM
Title
Heads of state.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Head-- Political aspects-- Andes Region.
Head-- Religious aspects.
Indians of South America-- Andes Region-- Antiquities.
Indians of South America-- Andes Region-- Kings and rulers.
Indians of South America-- Andes Region-- Politics and government.
Antiquities.
Head-- Religious aspects.
Indians of South America-- Antiquities.
Indians of South America-- Kings and rulers.
Indians of South America-- Politics and government.
Kings and rulers.
POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Political Freedom & Security-- Civil Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Political Freedom & Security-- Human Rights.