The bioarchaeology of disaster : how catastrophes change our skeletons
| Parallelsachtitel: |
How catastrophes change our skeletons |
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| 1. Verfasser: |
Kurin, Danielle Shawn
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| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
New York :
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group,
2022.
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| Umfang/Format: |
xi, 224 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781629581828 |
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| Parallelausgabe: |
Kurin, Danielle Shawn., Bioarchaeology of disaster (Online version:) | ISSN: 9781003229209 |
Inhaltsangabe:
- Part I: Natural catastrophes: earthquakes, volcanoes, hurricanes and floods
- Eruption of Mount Vesuvius and the destruction of Pompeii, 79 A.D.
- Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, 2005
- Haitian Earthquake, 2010
- Part II: Environmental disasters
- Ecocide in Norse Greenland, 15th century
- Deforestation of Easter Island, 17th century
- Part III: Biological disasters: epidemics and famines
- Bubonic plague, the black death of Europe and the Middle East, 1346-1353
- Syphilis crosses the Atlantic, 15th century
- Jamestown, Virginia, starving time of 1609-10
- New England's vampire panic, 19th century
- Irish potato famine, 1845-1852
- Part IV: Industrial and occupational hazards and calamities
- Soot wart cancer among British chimney sweeps, 18th-19th centuries
- Accidents in South Africa's Kimberley's Big Hole diamond mine, 1880-90s
- Part V: Catastrophes of human conflict: terrorism, genocide, and war
- Chanka communal violence in the Andes, 11th-15th centuries
- Smallpox in colonial America, 16th-18th centuries
- U.S. Civil War amputations and prosthetics, 1861-1865
- Killing fields of Cambodia, 1975-1979
- Crash of Pan Am 103 in Lockerbie, Scotland, 1988
- Rwandan genocide, 1994
- Part VI: Calamities and abuse of the socially marginalized: identity, stigma, and
- persecution
- Sati, widow burning in India, 10th
- 19th centuries
- Eunuchs of China's Ming Dynasty, 16th-17th centuries
- Mutiny of the Batavia, Indian Ocean, 1629
- Yakuza of Japan, 17th -21st centuries
- Infanticide and abortion in Five Points, New York, 19th century
- Kalawao Leper Colony, Hawai'i, 19th-20th centuries.
