LEADER 07852nam 22004573 450 001 9910842281003321 005 20240320170826.0 010 $a3-031-36600-X 035 $a(CKB)30764266900041 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC31201117 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL31201117 035 $a(EXLCZ)9930764266900041 100 $a20240308d2024 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aRitual Human Sacrifice in Mesoamerica $eRecent Findings and New Perspectives 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing AG,$d2024. 210 4$d©2024. 215 $a1 online resource (530 pages) 225 1 $aConflict, Environment, and Social Complexity Series 311 $a3-031-36599-2 327 $aIntro -- Foreword -- References -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I Recent Archaeological Evidence -- Part II Iconographic and Contextual Evidence -- Part III: Emerging Theoretical Perspectives -- Part IV: The Ethnographic Present -- References -- Contents -- About the Editors -- Part I: Recent Archaeological Evidence -- Blood Tribute, Earth Offerings, and the Formative Origins of Ritual Human Sacrifice in Mesoamerica -- Introduction -- Formative Practice -- Interpreting the Evidence -- Formative Iconography -- Origins and Affinities -- The Archaic -- Formative Continuity -- The Gulf Lowlands -- The Oaxacan Highlands -- The Maya Lowlands -- The Mexican Highlands -- Conclusions -- References -- Shifting Perspectives on Human Sacrifice at Midnight Terror Cave, Belize -- Introduction -- Anthropological Perspectives on Human Sacrifice -- Midnight Terror Cave -- Sacrifice at Midnight Terror Cave -- Paleogenetics in Mesoamerica -- Paleogenetic Analysis -- Analytical Results -- Conclusions -- References -- Ritual Human Sacrifice Among the Tarascans of West Mexico -- The Tarascan Señorio -- Tzintzuntzan -- History of Excavations at Tzintzuntzan -- Analysis of the 1992 Osteological Collection -- Discussion -- Conclusions -- References -- Part II: Iconographic and Contextual Evidence -- Portals to the Gods: Reciprocity, Sacrifice, and Warfare in the Northern Mixteca -- Introduction -- The Underlying Belief System -- Ritual Sacrifice, Social Complexity, and Hegemony -- Recurrent Drought, Population Displacement, and the Founding of Coixtlahuaca -- Calendars and Markets -- Creating and Encoding the Sacred -- The Mythical: Cosmic Struggle and Sacrificed Deities -- The Legendary: Gods in the Primeval Landscape -- The Colossal Bridge on the Ndaxagua -- The Place Where the Gods Sacrificed Themselves. 327 $aThe Historic: Metaphor, Chronology, and Pre-Hispanic Warfare -- The Mexica Conquest of Coixtlahuaca -- Conclusions -- References -- Primary Sources: Codices and Lienzos -- Secondary Sources: References -- The Hacha, Decapitation Sacrifice, and Classic Veracruz History -- Introduction -- The Hacha -- Histories of Sacrifice on the Gulf Coast -- The Hacha in Classic Veracruz History -- Hachas as Objects of Value in a Sacrificial Economy -- Ball Courts and Political Structures in Central Veracruz over Time -- Conclusion -- References -- Blood and Water: A Mesoamerican Social Cement -- Introduction -- The Moon Pyramid´s Burial 2 -- Tlaloc and His Symbolism -- Tlaloc and Warfare at the Templo Mayor -- Chalcatzingo as a Militant Water Mountain -- Modern Concepts of Tlaloc -- References -- Divine Combat, Warrior Merchants, and Ritual Sacrifice in the Mesoamerican Epiclassic AD 750-1050 -- Introduction -- Late Classic Mesoamerica -- Location of the Upper Temple of the Jaguars Murals -- Upper Temple of the Jaguars Interior Decorative Program -- Center East -- Northeast Panel -- North Panel -- Northwest Panel -- Center West Wall -- Southwest Panel -- South Panel -- Southeast Panel -- South Vault Ceiling -- The Las Monjas Murals -- Conclusions -- References -- The Harvest of Souls: Mimesis, Materiality, and Ritual Human Sacrifice in Mesoamerica -- Introduction -- Origins and Affinities -- Technologies of Terror -- Mesoamerican Ritual Violence -- Agricultural Themes and Ritual Carnage -- Maize and Mimesis -- Agricultural Periodicity -- Agave Anthropomorphs -- The Covenants of Earth and Rain -- Double Immolations -- Agave and Human Heart Extraction -- Conclusions -- References -- Part III: Emerging Theoretical Perspectives -- Filled with Divine Fire: Mesoamerican Human Sacrifice and Costumed Rituals as Acts of Deicide -- Introduction. 327 $aThe Nature of Mesoamerican Gods -- Reenactment Versus Replication -- Functional Versus Ontological Divinity -- Agency of Sacrificial Victims -- Theophanies and Deicide -- Indices of Costumed Rituals of Human Sacrifice -- Ub´aahila´n -- Nahwaj -- A Subregional Case Study: Yaxha Versus Naranjo -- Conclusions -- References -- Bodily Transformation and Sacralization: Human Sacrifice in Southwestern Mesoamerica -- Introduction -- Sacrifice and the Notion of Personhood -- Transfigurations and Symbolic Substitutions -- Sacrifice and the Notion of the Body -- The Treatment of Whole Bodies -- The Partitioning of the Body -- The Manufacture of Mementos from Decapitated Heads -- Body Partition and Flayed Skins -- Body Segregation and Bone Object Manufacture -- Body Partition: Soft Organs and Blood -- Sacrifice and the Notion of Community -- Sacrifice and the Notion of Place -- Sacrifice and the Notion of Divinity -- Conclusions -- References -- Human Sacrifice at Tula: Reputation, Representation, and Reality -- Introduction -- Human Sacrifice in the Art of Tula -- Coyotes, Jaguars, and Raptors, Oh My -- Crossed Darts and Bleeding Hearts -- The Coatepantli Frieze, Reclining Figures, and Skeletal Imagery -- Stripes and Butterflies -- Containers and Communicators -- Self-Sacrifice -- The Archaeology of Human Sacrifice at Tula -- The Tzompantli Skull Rack -- Tlaloc´s Children -- Skin: Sacrifices to Xipe -- Altars of Ambiguity -- Questionable Cannibalism -- Fragments -- Discussion -- References -- The Myth of the Willing Human Sacrificial Victim: The Complex Nature of Human Sacrifice in Aztec Ceremonialism -- Introduction -- The Sources of Myths Concerning Aztec Human Sacrifice -- Privileged Narratives Concerning the Victims -- Human Sacrifice in the Context of Interminable Warfare -- Concluding Remarks -- References -- Part IV: The Ethnographic Present. 327 $aIndigenous Sacrifice in the Christian Language Among the Communities of the Northern Mixteca of Oaxaca, Mexico -- Introduction -- A Time of Great Challenge -- Realigning Beliefs -- Ideological Shift and New Orientation for Coixtlahuaca -- Of Gods and Saints -- Colonial Era Sacrifices -- From Human to Animal Sacrifice -- Desanctifying the Earth -- A Surge of Devout Christian Elites -- Modern Reenactments of Violence and Sacrifice -- Contemporary Beliefs: Where Human Life Is Requisite -- Conclusions -- References -- Deicide in Ch´orti´ Maya Myth and Ritual -- Introduction -- A Theoretical Approach to Deicide -- Ch´orti´ Mythic Ritual Performance of the Baile de los gigantes -- Deicide and the Origins of Agriculture -- Turkeys as Sacrificial Substitutions -- Turkeys and Ritual in Greater Mesoamerica -- Ch´orti´ Milpa Rituals and Deicide -- Death of the Black Giant -- Other Black Gods Among the Maya -- A Mixtec Parallel -- Tezcatlipoca: An Antecedent of the Ch´orti´ Black Giant? -- Conclusion -- References. 410 0$aConflict, Environment, and Social Complexity Series 676 $a393 676 $a970 700 $aMendoza$b Rubén G$01732287 701 $aHansen$b Linda$01732288 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910842281003321 996 $aRitual Human Sacrifice in Mesoamerica$94146314 997 $aUNINA