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title: Shrunken Heads - Tsantsa Trophies and Human Exotica
by: James L. Castner
language: english
paperback: 160 pages
product dimensions: 28 x 22cm / 11,0" x 8,7"
year: 2002
price: not available

This book is about the Tsantsa Trophies, the unusual cultural practice of taking the head of an enemy as a trophy and then shrinking it, practiced by the Jivaroan tribes of Amazonian mountainous areas of Ecuador and Peru.

Table of Contents:

- Chapter 1. Tsantsa Trophies of the Jívaro

- Chapter 2. Authentication of Shrunken Heads

- Chapter 3. Shrunken Heads: Yesterday and Today

- Chapter 4. Unfortunate Anguashi

- Chapter 5. Portrait Gallery