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Blood and beauty : organized violence in the art and archaeology of Mesoamerica and Central America
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Blood and beauty : organized violence in the art and archaeology of Mesoamerica and Central America

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Reconsidering warfare in formative period Oaxaca / Andrew Workinger and Arthur A. Joyce
Warrior queens among the classic Maya / Kathryn Reese-Taylor ... [et al.]
Investiture and violence at El Tajín and Cacaxtla / Rex Koontz
Human sacrifice in the iconography of Veracruz ballgame sculptures / John Scott
Playing ball : competition as a political tool / Adriana Agüero and Annick Daneels
Games, courts and players at Cotzumalhuapa, Guatemala / Oswaldo Chinchilla Mazariegos
American gladiators : ritual boxing in ancient Mesoamerica / Karl Taube and Marc Zender
Heads of flesh and stone / Jane Stevenson Day
Rolling heads : the Diquís stone balls and trophy-head taking in ancient Costa Rica / Heather Orr
Pretium dolores, or The value of pain in Mesoamerica / Claude-François Baudez
Violent acts of curing : pre-Columbian metaphors of birth and sacrifice in the diagnosis and treatment of illness "writ large" / John W. Hoopes and David Mora-Marín
To boast in our sufferings : the problem of pain in ancient Mesoamerica / Stephen Houston.

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Blood and beauty : organized violence in the art and archaeology of Mesoamerica and Central America. ISBN 9781931745031. Published by Cotsen Institute of Archaeology in 2009. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.

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