Richard J Chacon; Ruben G Mendoza: Warfare sku-6336432

North American Indigenous Warfare and Ritual Violence is a hardcover title in Native American History Books by Richard J Chacon; Ruben G Mendoza, sku-6336432. The editors challenge the argument that scholarship has exaggerated the scale and scope of pre-Columbian Native American violence and misrepresented peoples who lived in peace. Drawing on multiple academic disciplines, the essays present evidence of warfare and ritual violence before European contact. Fourteen scholars contributed ten research chapters, originally presented at an American Anthropological Association symposium. The editors argue that overlooking warfare also erases Native warriors’ history of armed resistance to colonial repression. Anthropologists, archaeologists, historians and ethnographers examine specific acts of violence across North America and argue that violence was at times an important, celebrated part of Amerindian life over many centuries. Contents: Acknowledgments; Introduction, Richard J. Chacon and Rubén G. Mendoza; 1. Traditional Native Warfare in Western Alaska, Ernest S. Burch Jr.; 2. Barbarism and Ardour of War from the Tenderest Years”: Cree-Inuit Warfare in the Hudson Bay Region, Charles A. Bishop and Victor P. Lytwyn; 3. Aboriginal Warfare on the Northwest Coast: Did the Potlatch Replace Warfare?, Joan A. Lovisek; 4. Ethnohistoric Descriptions of Chumash Warfare, John R. Johnson; 5. Documenting Conflict in the Prehistoric Pueblo Southwest, Polly Schaafsma; 6. Cahokia and the Evidence for Late Pre-Columbian War in the North American Midcontinent, Thomas E. Emerson; 7. Iroquois-Huron Warfare, Dean R. Snow; 8. Desecrating the Sacred Ancestor Temples: Chiefly Conflict and Violence in the American Southeast, David H. Dye and Adam King; 9. Warfare, Population, and Food Production in Prehistoric Eastern North America, George R. Milner; 10. The Osteological Evidence for Indigenous Warfare in North America, Patricia M. Lambert; 11. Ethical Considerations and Conclusions Regarding Indigenous Warfare and Violence in North America, Richard J. Chacon and Rubén G. Mendoza; References; About the Contributors; Index.