Anthropology and Archaeology Professor Andrew Scherer explores social and ritual contexts of precolonial Mayan violence.

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The vice president framed the abortion debate as a choice between Christian civilization and ancient pagan practices.

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In the Florentine Codex, missionary Bernardino de Sahagún famously documented the existence of the ...

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In 'Temples of Awadh', Vipul B Varshney documents over 150 temples, ghats, and sarovars in the Awadh region.