Contents
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1. Introduction: Processing and Poetics, Examining the Model | Anna J. Osterholtz
Part 1: The Americas
2. Power, Mediation, and Transformation: Dismembered Heads from Uraca (Majes Valley, Peru) and the Andean Feline-Hunter Myth | Beth Koontz Scaffidi
3. The Politics and Poetics of Performance Violence at Casas Grandes, Chihuahua, Mexico | Kyle D. Waller and Adrianne M. Offenbecker
4. Ritual Modification of Human Remains in the Context of Social Turmoil among Ancestral Pueblo Peoples of the Northern San Juan | Kristin A. Kuckelman
5. The Poetics of Corpse Fragmentation and Processing in the Ancient Southwest | Debra L. Martin and Anna J. Osterholtz
Part 2: Europe, Eurasia, and Africa
6. Poetics of the House: Changing Realities of Body and Person in Aksumite Mortuary Practice | Dilpreet Singh Basanti
7. Smiting Pharaohs: The Poetics of Violence and Power in Ancient Egypt | Roselyn A. Campbell
8. Social Memory and Mortuary Practices in Neolithic Anatolia | Marin A. Pilloud, Scott D. Haddow, Christopher J. Knüsel, Clark Spencer Larsen, and Mehmet Somel
9. Mingled Bones, Mingled Bodies: Diversity in the Poetics of Death at Nabataean Petra, Jordan | Megan Perry and Anna J. Osterholtz
Part 3: Anatomization
10. Dissection as Social Process: Anatomical Settings in the Nineteenth-Century United States | Christina J. Hodge and Kenneth C. Nystrom
11. Processing the Destitute and Deviant Dead: Inequality, Dissection, Politics, and the Structurally Violent Legalization of Social Marginalization in American Anatomical Collections | Carlina de la Cova
12. Conclusion: Poetic Amplifications and Extensions, How to Process the Dead | Eric J. Haanstad
List of Contributors
Index