The Taking and Displaying of Human Body Parts as Trophies by Amerindians

The Amerindian (American Indian or Native American – reference to both North and South America) practice of taking and displaying various body parts as trophies has long intrigued both the research community as well as the public. As a subject that is bot

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The Taking and Displaying of Human Body Parts as Trophies by Amerindians

Edited by

Richard J. Chacon and David H. Dye

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INTERDISCIPLINARY CONTRIBUTIONS TO ARCHAEOLOGY Series Editor: Michael Jochim, University of California, Santa Barbara, California Founding Editor: Roy S. Dickens, Jr., Late of University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina THE ARCHAEOLOGIST’S LABORATORY The Analysis of Archaeological Data E.B. Banning AURIGNACIAN LITHIC ECONOMY Ecological Perspectives from Southwestern France Brooke S. Blades EARLIEST ITALY An Overview of the Italian Paleolithic and Mesolithic Margherita Mussi EMPIRE AND DOMESTIC ECONOMY Terence N. D’Altroy and Christine A. Hastorf EUROPEAN PREHISTORY: A SURVEY Edited by Saurunas Miliasuskas THE EVOLUTION OF COMPLEX HUNTER-GATHERERS Archaeological Evidence from the North Pacific Ben Fitzhugh FAUNAL EXTINCTION IN AN ISLAND SOCIETY Pygmy Hippotamus Hunters of Cyprus Alan H. Simmons A HUNTER-GATHERER LANDSCAPE Southwest Germany in the Late Paleolithic and Neolithic Michael A. Jochim MISSISSIPPIAN COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION The Powers Phase in Southeastern Missouri Michael J. O’Brien NEW PERSPECTIVES ON HUMAN SACRIFICE AND RITUAL BODY TREATMENTS IN ANCIENT MAYA SOCIETY Edited by Vera Tiesler and Andrea Cucina REMOTE SENSING IN ARCHAEOLOGY Edited by James Wiseman and Farouk El-Baz THE TAKING AND DISPLAYING OF HUMAN BODY PARTS AS TROPHIES BY AMERINDIANS Edited by Richard J. Chacon and David H. Dye A Continuation Order Plan is available for this series. A continuation order will bring delivery of each new volume immediately upon publication. Volumes are billed only upon actual shipment. For further information please contact the publisher.

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The Taking and Displaying of Human Body Parts as Trophies by Amerindians Edited by

RICHARD J. CHACON Winthrop University Rock Hill, South Carolina, USA

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DAVID H. DYE University of Memphis Memphis, Tennessee, USA

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David H. Dye Department of Earth Sciences University of Memphis Memphis, Tennessee 38152, USA E-mail: [email protected]

Richard J. Chacon Department of Sociology and Anthropology Winthrop University Rock Hill, South Carolina, 29733, USA E-mail: [email protected]

Library of Congress Control Number: 2007925066 ISBN-10: 0-387-48300-4 ISBN-13: 978-0-387-48300-9

e-ISBN-10: 0-387-48303-4 e-ISBN-13: 978-0-387-48303-9

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