Social Skins of the Head by Vera Tiesler

Using Their Heads: The Lives of Crania in the Andes by Christine A. Semiotic Portraits: Expressions of Communal Identity in Wari Faceneck Vessels by Andrea Vazquez de Arthur. Violence, Power, and Head Extraction in Kallawaya Region, Bolivia by Sara K.

Cranial Modification in the Central Andes: Person, Language, Political Economy by Bruce Mannheim, Allison R. From Wawa to “Trophy Head”: Meaning, Representation, and Bioarchaeology of Human Heads from Ancient Tiwanaku by Deborah E. Haydon, Hans Barnard, Augusto Cardona Rosas, and Raphael Greenberg. Head Processing in the La Ramada Tradition of Southern Peru by María Cecilia Lozada, Alanna Warner-Smith, Rex C. Afterlives of the Decapitated in Ancient Peru by John W. Emic Perspectives on Cultural Practices Pertaining to the Head in Mesoamerica: A Commentary and Discussion of the Chapters in Part One by Gabrielle Vail. Effigies of Death: Representation, Use, and Reuse of Human Skulls at the Templo Mayor of Tenochtitlan by Ximena Chávez Balderas. The Representation of Hair in the Art of Chichén Itzá by Virginia E. The Importance of Visage, Facial Treatment, and Idiosyncratic Traits in Maya Royal Portraiture during the Reign of K’inich Janaab’ Pakal of Palenque, 615–683 CE by Laura Filloy Nadal. Face Painting among the Classic Maya Elites: An Iconographic Study by María Luisa Vázquez de Ágredos Pascual, Cristina Vidal Lorenzo, and Patricia Horcajada Campos. Cultural Modification of the Head: The Case of Teopancazco in Teotihuacan by Luis Adrián Alvarado-Viñas and Linda R. Head Shaping and Tooth Modification among the Classic Maya of the Usumacinta River Kingdoms by Andrew K.

Head Shapes and Group Identity on the Fringes of the Maya Lowlands by Vera Tiesler and Alfonso Lacadena. What Was Being Sealed?: Cranial Modification and Ritual Binding among the Maya by William N. Introducing the Social Skins of the Head in Ancient Mesoamerica and the Andes by Vera Tiesler and María Cecilia Lozada.

Social Skins of the Head by Vera Tiesler