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As the Gods Kill
- Morality and Social Violence Among the Precolonial Maya
Engelsk
Bogcover for As the Gods Kill af Andrew K. Scherer, 9781477331941
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Engelsk
Sider:
344
ISBN-13:
9781477331941
Indbinding:
Hardback
ISBN-10:
1477331948
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Udg. Dato:
9 dec 2025
Størrelse i cm:
27,9 x 21,6
Oplagsdato:
9 dec 2025
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As the Gods Kill

- Morality and Social Violence Among the Precolonial Maya
Engelsk
Hardback 2025
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An exploration of war, violence, and sacrifice in precolonial Maya culture and its importance in religious practices. As the Gods Kill delivers new insights into warfare, weaponry, violence, and human sacrifice among the ancient Maya. While attending to the particularity of a singular historical context, anthropologist and archaeologist Andrew Scherer also suggests that Maya practices have something to tell us about human propensities toward violence more broadly. Focusing on moral frameworks surrounding deliberate injury and killing, Scherer examines Maya justifications of violence-in particular the obligations to one another, to ancestors, and to the gods that made violence not only permissible but necessary. The analysis isolates key themes underpinning the morality of violence-including justice, vengeance, payment, and costumbre (ritual)-and explores the ethics of violent agents, including warriors, ritual specialists, and the gods. Finally, Scherer addresses motivations for warfare, including the acquisition of spoils, tribute, captives, and slaves. An interdisciplinary case study of morality in an ancient society, As the Gods Kill synthesizes scholarship on an important dimension of precolonial American culture while taking stock of its implications for the social sciences at large.
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Specifikationer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
344
ISBN-13:
9781477331941
Indbinding:
Hardback
ISBN-10:
1477331948
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
9 dec 2025
Størrelse i cm:
27,9 x 21,6
Oplagsdato:
9 dec 2025
Forfatter(e):
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