List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Headhunting in the Andes; Methods and the Organization of the Book; Part I -- The Ethnography of Andean Head Taking and Power; 1. Heads in Small-scale Polities; 2. The Captured Fetish, the Mountain Chest, and Sacrifice; 3. Drinking the Power of the Dead; 4. The Nested Power of Modern Andean Hierarchies; Part II -- The Archaeology of Andean Head Taking and Power; 5. Heads and the Consolidation of Andean Political Power; 6. Heads and Andean Political Change from an Archaeological Perspective; 7. Central Andean Political Developments
Summary
Addresses the importance of the human head in political, ritual and symbolic contexts in the ancient and modern Andes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-279) and index
