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Heads of state : icons, power, and politics in the ancient and modern Andes

Addresses the importance of the human head in political, ritual and symbolic contexts in the ancient and modern Andes
eBook, English, ©2008
Left Coast Press, Walnut Creek, CA, ©2008
1 online resource (293 pages) : illustrations
9781598748000, 9781598741704, 9781598741711, 1598748009, 1598741705, 1598741713
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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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