Télécharger le livre :  Interdisciplinary Explorations of Postmortem Interaction

In the present as in the past, the dead have been deployed to promote visions of identity, as well as ostensibly wider human values. Through a series of case studies from ancient Egypt through prehistoric, historic, and present-day Europe, this book discusses what is...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2022-06-23
Collection : Bioarchaeology and Social Theory
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Télécharger le livre :  Theorizing Bioarchaeology

Bioarchaeology has relied on Darwinian perspectives and biocultural models to communicate information about the lives of past peoples. This book demonstrates how further theoretical expansion—a thoughtful engagement with critical social theorizing—can contribute...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2021-06-30
Collection : Bioarchaeology and Social Theory
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Télécharger le livre :  The Bioarchaeology of Structural Violence

This volume is a resource for bioarchaeologists interested in using a structural violence framework to better understand and contextualize the lived experiences of past populations. One of the most important elements of bioarchaeological research is the study of health...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2020-08-27
Collection : Bioarchaeology and Social Theory
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Télécharger le livre :  Diet, Nutrition, and Foodways on the North Coast of Peru

This book synthesizes in-depth bioarchaeological research into diet, subsistence regimes, and nutrition—and corresponding insights into adaptation, suffering, and resilience—among indigenous north-coastal Peruvian communities from early agricultural through European...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2020-06-17
Collection : Bioarchaeology and Social Theory
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Télécharger le livre :  Activity, Diet and Social Practice

Day-to-day activities are important in the development of social identities, the establishment of social standing, and the communal understanding of societal rules. This perspective is broadly referred to as practice theory and relates to the power of an overarching...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2018-12-05
Collection : Bioarchaeology and Social Theory
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Télécharger le livre :  Bioarchaeologists Speak Out

Bioarchaeologists who study human remains in ancient, historic and contemporary settings are securely anchored within anthropology as anthropologists, yet they have not taken on the pundits the way other subdisciplines within anthropology have. Popular science authors...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2018-10-26
Collection : Bioarchaeology and Social Theory
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Télécharger le livre :  The Children of Spring Street

This book examines how the shifts in the early 19th century in New York City affected children in particular. Indeed, one could argue that within this context, that “children” and “childhood” came into being. In order to explore this, the skeletal remains of the...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2018-07-28
Collection : Bioarchaeology and Social Theory
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Télécharger le livre :  Bioarchaeological Analyses and Bodies

This volume features bioarchaeological research that interrogates the human skeleton in concert with material culture, ethnographic data and archival research.This approach provides examples of how these intersections of inquiry can be used to consider the larger social...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2018-01-16
Collection : Bioarchaeology and Social Theory
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Télécharger le livre :  Sociopolitics of Migrant Death and Repatriation

As scholars have by now long contended, global neoliberalism and the violence associated with state restructuring provide key frameworks for understanding flows of people across national boundaries and, eventually, into the treacherous terrains of the United States...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2017-10-03
Collection : Bioarchaeology and Social Theory
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Télécharger le livre :  The Bioarchaeology of Social Control

Taking a bioarchaeological approach, this book examines the Ancestral Pueblo culture living in the Four Corners region of the United States during the late Pueblo I through the end of the Pueblo III period (AD 850-1300). During this time, a vast system of pueblo...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2017-09-20
Collection : Bioarchaeology and Social Theory
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Télécharger le livre :  Bioarchaeology of Impairment and Disability

Over the years, impairment has been discussed in bioarchaeology, with some scholars providing carefully contextualized explanations for their causes and consequences. Such investigations typically take a case study approach and focus on the functional aspects of...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2017-06-28
Collection : Bioarchaeology and Social Theory
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Télécharger le livre :  Bioarchaeology of Women and Children in Times of War

This volume will examine the varied roles that women and children play in period of warfare, which in most cases deviate from their perceived role as noncombatants.  Using social theory about the nature of sex, gender and age in thinking about vulnerabilities to...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2017-02-06
Collection : Bioarchaeology and Social Theory
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Télécharger le livre :  New Developments in the Bioarchaeology of Care

New Developments in the Bioarchaeology of Care evaluates, refines and expands existing concepts and practices in the developing field of bioarchaeological research into health-related care provision in the past.Evidence in human remains that indicates an individual...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2016-08-22
Collection : Bioarchaeology and Social Theory
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Télécharger le livre :  The Bioarchaeology of Dissection and Autopsy in the United States

Encountering evidence of postmortem examinations - dissection or autopsy in historic skeletal collections is relatively rare, but recently there has been an increase in the number of reported instances. And much of what has been evaluated has been largely descriptive...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2016-08-13
Collection : Bioarchaeology and Social Theory
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Télécharger le livre :  The Bioarchaeology of Socio-Sexual Lives

This volume uses bioarchaeological remains to examine the complexities and diversity of past socio-sexual lives. This book does not begin with the presumption that certain aspects of sex, gender, and sexuality are universal and longstanding. Rather,...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2016-07-28
Collection : Bioarchaeology and Social Theory
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Télécharger le livre :  The Bioarchaeology of Societal Collapse and Regeneration in Ancient Peru

This book explores how individuals, social groups, and entire populations are impacted by the tumultuous collapse of ancient states and empires. Through meticulous study of the bones of the dead and the molecules embedded therein, bioarchaeologists can reconstruct how...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2016-04-12
Collection : Bioarchaeology and Social Theory
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Télécharger le livre :  Theoretical Approaches to Analysis and Interpretation of Commingled Human Remains

This volume centers on the application of social theory to commingled remains with special focus on the cultural processes that create the assemblages as a way to better understand issues of meaning, social structure and interaction, and lived experience in the past....
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2015-11-05
Collection : Bioarchaeology and Social Theory
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Télécharger le livre :  Theory and Practice in the Bioarchaeology of Care

This book provides the first comprehensive introduction to, and explanation of, the theory and practice of the ‘bioarchaeology of care’, an original, fully theorised and contextualised case study-based approach designed to identify and interpret cases of care provision...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2015-08-28
Collection : Bioarchaeology and Social Theory
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