Bioarchaeological Analyses and Bodies : New Ways of Knowing Anatomical and Archaeological Skeletal Collections.
| 1. Verfasser: |
Stone, Pamela Kendall.
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| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
Cham :
Springer,
2018.
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| Umfang/Format: |
1 online resource (253 pages). |
| Schriftenreihe: |
Bioarchaeology and social theory
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| Schlagworte: | |
| Parallelausgabe: |
Bioarchaeological Analyses and Bodies : New Ways of Knowing Anatomical and Archaeological Skeletal Collections (Print version:) |
| Online Zugang: |
Available online |
Inhaltsangabe:
- Intro
- Dedication
- Foreword
- Contents
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- New Ways of Knowing
- Why a Bioarchaeology Lens?
- Themes of the Text
- References
- Part I: Anatomical (Medical) Collections
- Chapter 2: "Whatever Was Once Associated with him, Continues to Bear his Stamp": Articulating and Dissecting George S. Huntington and His Anatomical Collection
- Introduction
- The Collection
- Human Variation
- Medicine, Dissection, and Bodies: A Necessary Bond
- Case Study: Lizzie's Extended Life Course
- (Re)Articulating Huntington and His Collection
- References
- Chapter 3: Anatomical Collections as the Anthropological Other: Some Considerations
- Introduction
- Disclaimer/Position Statement
- Context for the Discussion
- The W. Montague Cobb Skeletal Collection
- Recent Studies of the Cobb Skeletal Collection
- Anatomical Remains and Osteological Subject Making
- Anatomical Remains as the Raw Material of Scientific Knowledge Production
- Conclusions and Considerations
- References
- Chapter 4: More Than the Sum Total of Their Parts: Restoring Identity by Recombining a Skeletal Collection with Its Texts
- Introduction
- Historical Background
- Measuring Residential Segregation in the Huntington Collection
- Indices of Segregation
- Statistical Analysis
- Results
- Index of Dissimilarity for the City of New York
- Interaction Index for the City of New York
- Isolation Index for the City of New York
- Effect of Tract Dissimilarity Value on the Number of Black Individuals Collected
- Effect of Tract Interaction Values for Black Residents on the Number of Black Individuals Collected
- Effect of Tract Isolation Values for Black Residents on the Number of Individuals Collected
- Effect of Tract Income on the Number of Black Individuals Collected.
- Effect of Tract Income on the Number of White Individuals Collected
- Discussion
- References
- Chapter 5: At the Intersections of Race, Poverty, Gender, and Science: A Museum Mortuary for Twentieth Century Fetuses and Infants
- Introduction
- Bioarchaeology and Fetal and Infant Collection
- The Johns Hopkins Fetal Collection
- The Sociopolitical Value of Fetal and Infant Remains
- Capturing the "Normal" Fetus: Collection and Commodification
- Fetal and Infant Value Beyond Scientific Contributions
- The Axes of Gender, Poverty, and Race
- Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 6: Recovering the Lived Body from Bodies of Evidence: Interrogation of Diagnostic Criteria and Parameters for Disease Ecology Reconstructed from Skeletons Within Anatomical and Medical Anatomical Collections
- Introduction
- Background
- Acquired Syphilis
- Diagnostic Criteria
- Diagnostic Criteria for Syphilis
- Medical Anatomical Skeletal Collections
- Anatomical Collections
- The Embodied Effects of Poverty, Low Socioeconomic Status, and Lifetime Exposure to Physical and Psychosocial Stressors
- Discussion and Conclusion
- References
- Part II: Archaeological Collections
- Chapter 7: Lives Lost: What Burial Vault Studies Reveal About Eighteenth-Century Identities
- Introduction
- Background
- The Burial Vault
- Other Historical Burial Vault Studies
- The Human Remains
- Heavy Metals
- Stable Isotopes
- Mitochondrial DNA
- Naming the Past
- Discussion
- Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 8: 'A Mass of Crooked Alphabets': The Construction and Othering of Working Class Bodies in Industrial England
- Introduction
- Case Study 1: Phossy Jaw and Matchmaking
- Case Study 2: Pauper Apprentices - North Yorkshire
- Discussion: Industrialised Bodies
- Conclusion
- References.
- Chapter 9: From Womb to Tomb? Disrupting the Narrative of the Reproductive Female Body
- Introduction
- Anthropology, Medicine, and Framing Difference
- From Womb to Tomb?
- Evolution and Birth
- The Obstetrical Dilemma
- Maternal Health
- Bioarchaeological Investigations
- Skeletal Analysis: Measuring the Risk of Pregnancy?
- Occupational and Reproductive Stress
- Understanding Task Differentiation Through Ethnoarchaeology and the Biological Consequences for Men and Women in Ancestral Pueblo Villages
- Maternal Mortality in the Past
- Gender Inequality, Not Reproduction
- New Models
- Conclusions
- References Cited
- Chapter 10: Mother, Laborer, Captive, and Leader: Reassessing the Various Roles that Females Held Among the Ancestral Pueblo in the American Southwest
- Introduction
- Collecting Indigenous Human Remains in the United States
- Early Skeletal Collections from the American Southwest
- Reanalyzing the Early Southwest Collections
- The Role of Females Among the Ancestral Pueblo
- Differences Between Foragers and Agriculturalists
- Methodological Approach
- Excavations: Room 33 at Pueblo Bonito, Kin Bineola, Black Mesa, and La Plata
- Chaco Canyon
- Chaco Phenomenon
- Pueblo Bonito: Room 33
- Kin Bineola
- Black Mesa
- La Plata
- Recognizing Females: Mother, Laborer, Captive, and Leader
- Mothers
- Laborers
- Captives
- Leaders
- Discussion: The Complex Lives of Ancestral Pueblo Females
- Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 11: A Skull's Tale: From Middle Bronze Age Subject to Teaching Collection "Object"
- Constructing an Archaeological Subject: The "Warrior" from Middle Bronze Age Canaan
- Becoming a Teaching Collection "Object": Skull 901 AEH 66
- Theorizing Subjects and Objects
- Re-subjectifying the Skull Through Teaching
- Conclusion
- References.
- Chapter 12: Conclusion: Challenging the Narrative
- Expanding the Umbrella of Bioarchaeology
- Contextualization and a Critical Bioarchaeology
- Communicating Bioarchaeology
- Engaging with Anatomical Collections
- A Bioarchaeology of Anatomy Collections
- Self-reflection
- Parting Thoughts
- References
- Index.
