Bioarchaeologists speak out : deep time perspectives on contemporary issues.

1. Verfasser: Buikstra, Jane E.
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Cham : Springer, 2018.
Umfang/Format: 1 online resource (339 pages).
Schriftenreihe: Bioarchaeology and social theory
ISBN: 9783319930121
Schlagworte:
Human remains (Archaeology).
Paleoanthropology.
Electronic books.
Parallelausgabe: Bioarchaeologists Speak Out : Deep Time Perspectives on Contemporary Issues (Print version:)
Online-Zugang: Available online
Inhaltsangabe:
  • Intro
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • Contributors
  • About the Editor
  • Chapter 1: Bioarchaeologists Speak Out: An Introduction
  • Introduction
  • Defining Bioarchaeology
  • Bioarchaeology's Visible Successes
  • Popular Perceptions of Archaeology
  • Public Opinion and Heritage Tourism
  • Archaeology as Popular Culture: Time Travel and Heritage Studies
  • Introduction to the Chapters in this Volume
  • Best-Practice Methods in Communication
  • The Task at Hand: Conveying Important Messages Without Sensationalizing
  • Writing for Your Audience
  • Conclusions and Crosscutting Themes
  • References
  • Chapter 2: Knowing Your Audience: Reactions to the Human Body, Dead and Undead
  • Introduction
  • A Universal Reaction to Corpses and to Death?
  • Philippe Ariès
  • The Pornography of Death
  • Popular Culture: Late Twentieth and Early Twenty-First Centuries
  • Memento Mori for the Twenty-First Century
  • Symbolic Skulls and Bones
  • Body and Soul/Resurrection and the Body
  • Partibility, Dividuals, and Postmodern Perspectives
  • Corpse Porn and Sex
  • Dark Tourism to Sites of Death, Disaster, and the Macabre
  • Is Dark Tourism OK?
  • Studying Dark Tourism
  • Posthumous Personhood in the Digital Age
  • Displaying, Curating, and Studying the Dead
  • Ancestral Bodies: Federal Laws and Human Remains in the USA
  • Museum Displays of Human Remains in the USA
  • Ancestral Bodies: Laws and Repatriation in the UK
  • Displaying Human Remains in the UK
  • Body Worlds
  • Concluding Comments
  • References
  • Chapter 3: Bioarchaeological Evidence for Prehistoric Violence: Use and Misuse in the Popular Media
  • Introduction
  • Archaeology, Heritage, and Popular Culture: Who Is the Expert?
  • Warification of the Past: Misuse of the Archaeological and Historical Records
  • Becoming Civilized? The Competing Perspectives and Needs of Academia, the Media, and the General Public.
  • Civilizing Public Narratives
  • Communicating the Past: Navigating the Media in Academia
  • Interpreting and Misinterpreting New aDNA Evidence from Prehistoric Peoples
  • The Lure of Cannibalism and Violent Women
  • Case Studies of Violence
  • Ötzi the Iceman and Dark Tourism
  • Herxheim and the Question of Mass Cannibalism in Neolithic Europe
  • Lake Turkana and the Question of the Earliest Warfare
  • Bridging the Gap: Experimental Bioarchaeology
  • Conclusions
  • References
  • Chapter 4: Bridging the Precontact and Postcontact Divide in Eastern North America: Prior Conditions Set the Stage for Historic Period Outcomes
  • Introduction
  • Conventional Good-To-Bad Scenario
  • Population Estimates
  • Intergroup Conflict
  • Scenario Origin
  • Population Distribution
  • Warfare
  • Precontact Population and Warfare
  • Early Postcontact Events
  • European Explorations
  • Populations and Disease
  • Beyond Disease Mortality
  • Group Movement
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • Chapter 5: Misconceptions About the Bioarchaeology of Plague
  • Introduction
  • Bioarchaeology and Paleomicrobiology of Plague
  • Black Death Selectivity
  • Pre-Black Death Trends (c. 1000-1350 AD)
  • Post-Black Death Trends (c. 1350-1539 AD)
  • Paleomicrobiology of Plague
  • Benefits to Living People
  • Media Reporting on the Bioarchaeology and Paleomicrobiology of Plague
  • Addressing Misconceptions About Bioarchaeological Research
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • Chapter 6: Changing the Climate: Bioarchaeology Responds to Deterministic Thinking About Human-Environmental Interactions in the Past
  • Introduction
  • Climate Change as "a Significant Threat to the Health of the American People"
  • Human Security Literature: A Basis for Planning and Public Policy
  • The Problem with Determinist Thinking
  • Anthropology as an Antidote to Determinist Thinking.
  • An Anthropological Bioarchaeology of Climate Change: An Example from South Asian Prehistory
  • Climate and Bioarchaeology in Late Holocene South Asia
  • Conclusions
  • References
  • Chapter 7: Stone Agers in the Fast Lane? How Bioarchaeologists Can Address the Paleo Diet Myth
  • Introduction
  • Paleo Diet (PD) Debates
  • Was There a Ubiquitous Stone Age Diet?
  • PD Assumptions and Bioarchaeological Response
  • What Plant Microfossils Are Revealing About the Reality of a Paleo Diet
  • The Rest of the World? MetS and Gout in the Pacific Islands
  • The Paleopathology of Gout in the Pacific Islands
  • Gout, DISH, and the Paleo Diet
  • Conclusions
  • Communicating Variable Disease Susceptibility Issues to the Public
  • References
  • Chapter 8: Ancient Migrations: Biodistance, Genetics, and the Persistence of Typological Thinking
  • Introduction
  • What Is Typological Thinking?
  • The Indians of Pecos Pueblo Reconsidered
  • The Genomics Revolution (That Wasn't?)
  • Structure and Race
  • Of Blued-Eyed, Swarthy Hunters
  • Conclusions
  • References
  • Chapter 9: Opening Up the Family Tree: Promoting More Diverse and Inclusive Studies of Family, Kinship, and Relatedness in Bioarchaeology
  • Introduction
  • Defining Family, Kinship, and Relatedness
  • Kinship Analysis in Bioarchaeology
  • Evaluating the Limited Impact and Limitations of Bioarchaeological Kinship Research
  • The Limited Volume and Scope of Bioarchaeological Kinship Research
  • The Biologistic Limitations of Bioarchaeological Kinship Analysis
  • The Prevalence of Heteronormative Bias in Bioarchaeological Kinship Research
  • Strategies for Revitalizing and Increasing the Impact of Bioarchaeological Family Research
  • Building a Better Bioarchaeological Approach to Family, Kinship, and Relatedness
  • Increasing the Visibility of Bioarchaeological Family Research
  • Summary and Conclusion.
  • References
  • Chapter 10: The Fallacy of the Transgender Skeleton
  • Introduction
  • Ongoing Process: Presentism
  • Creation of Tension
  • The Transsexual Caveman
  • Mediascapes
  • Inclusion and Omission
  • To Conclude...
  • References
  • Chapter 11: The Body-as-Evidence Paradigm in Domestic and International Forensic Anthropology
  • Introduction
  • The "CSI Effect"
  • International Human Rights Work
  • International Bodies
  • Bioarchaeologists and Forensic Anthropologists: Sisters but Not Twins
  • Speaking Out in Forensic Anthropology: An Action Plan
  • References
  • Chapter 12: Contributions of Mummy Science to Public Perception of the Past
  • Introduction
  • Embodied Identity: Mummies, Tattoos, and Health
  • Control of the Body and Dead Body Politics
  • Social Determinants of Health
  • Chagas Disease
  • Tuberculosis
  • Conclusion
  • Parting Thoughts
  • References
  • Chapter 13: Writing Bioarchaeological Stories to Right Past Wrongs
  • Introduction
  • Less Than Human?
  • Affective Pathways to Empathy
  • Fictive Osteobiographical Narratives as Affective Interpretation
  • Case Study: Comparing Three Modes of Bioarchaeological Interpretation
  • Interpretation #1: Analytical Style, Technical Language
  • Interpretation #2: Analytical Style, Colloquial Language
  • Interpretation #3: Affective Style, Colloquial Language
  • Discussion and Conclusion
  • References
  • Chapter 14: Bioarchaeology and the Media: Anthropology Scicomm in a Post-Truth Landscape
  • Introduction
  • Anthropology Scicomm Values
  • Public Intellectualism
  • Diversity
  • Community and Teamwork
  • Writing Anthropology for the Public
  • Developing a Message
  • DIY Outreach
  • Enlist Help
  • Support Others
  • Conclusions: Using Scicomm to Combat the Post-Truth Landscape
  • References
  • Index.

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