Vera Tiesler

Ancient Maya Teeth

Dental Modification, Cosmology, and Social Identity in Mesoamerica

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A study of Maya dental modification from archaeological sites spanning three millennia.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Texas Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Januar 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 279mm x 216mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781477327579
• ISBN-10: 1477327576
• Artikelnr.: 67743671

Autorenporträt

Vera Tiesler

Inhaltsangabe

1. Preface and Acknowledgments
2. Chapter 1. Introduction: Taking Stock of Physical Dental Embodiment
* 1.1. Permanently Inscribed Body Modifications of the Past
* 1.2. Mapping Dental Decorations from Kirchhoff’s “Grandiose”
Mesoamerica
* 1.3. This Volume
3. Part I. Crafting Maya Teeth (Thematic Section)
4. Chapter 2. The Teeth of Dead People: Reconstructing Ancient Dental Works
* 2.1. Basics in Human Dental Morphology and Cultural Intervention
* 2.2. The ABCs of Traditional Dental Works
* 2.3. Scoring Dental Shapes in Mesoamerica
* 2.4. Contoured Dental Arches
* 2.5. Dental Drilling Procedures
5. Chapter 3. Mouths as Portals, Teeth as Jewels: Dentitions as Indigenous
Sociocultural Constructs
* 3.1. The Body in Mesoamerican Thought
* 3.2. Meanings of Traditional Dental Display, Lost and Found
* 3.3. Mouths as Portals
* 3.4. Teeth as Jewels
* 3.5. Contoured Dental Arches
* 3.6. Jeweled Teeth
6. Chapter 4. The Life Cycles of Embellished Smiles
* 4.1. Social Age and Dental Work
* 4.2. Modeling Children and Sculpting Infant Teeth
* 4.3. Crafting the Teeth of Youngsters
* 4.4. Cutting into Teeth as Ritual Consumption
* 4.5. The Life Cycles of Modified Dental Portals
7. Part II. Tooth Modifications across the Maya Landscapes (Regional Survey)
8. Chapter 5. Dental Crafts during the First Millennium AD
* 5.1. Mesoamerican Tooth Sculpting before the Onset of the Classic
* 5.2. Maya Dental Crafting in the Course of the First Millennium AD
* 5.3. Crafting Teeth across the Maya Landscapes
* 5.4. Teeth beyond the Maya Lowland Corridor and the Role of Merchants
9. Chapter 6. Dental Work, Gender, Community Building, and Distinction
* 6.1. Dental Work among Men and Women
* 6.2. Living on the Fringes of the Maya World: Multiethnic Dental
Embodiment in the Copan Valley
* 6.3. The Precious Smiles of Royals
* 6.4. Ch’ok Rituals and the Mouth Portal of Janaab Pakal of Palenque
10. Chapter 7. Tooth Decorations after the Maya Collapse
* 7.1. Teeth in the Maya Lowlands after the Collapse
* 7.2. Dental Works in the Wake of the European Conquest
* 7.3. Teeth and Culture in a Multiethnic Cemetery Population from
Early Colonial Campeche
* 7.4. The Colonies and Beyond
11. Chapter 8. Conclusions: Ancient Maya Teeth from a Cultural Perspective
12. Appendix 1: Maintaining a Precious Smile: A Dentist’s Perspective on Maya
Inlays and Fillings. Marco Ramírez, Patricia Quintana, Gloria Hernández,
Vera Tiesler, and Elma Vega
* A1.1. Putting Drilled Tooth Cavities into Clinical Perspective
* A1.2. Toothache and the Health Burdens of Incrusted Teeth
* A1.3. Therapeutical Properties of Cements and Fillers
* A1.4. Patient Charts of Inlaid Dental Records
13. Appendix 2: List of Documented Resources in the Data Survey for This Volume
* A2.1. Mexico
* A2.2. Belize
* A2.3. El Salvador
* A2.4. Guatemala
* A2.5. Honduras
* A2.6. Costa Rica
* A2.7. Ecuador
* A2.8. Peru
14. Notes
15. References
16. Index