Theorizing bioarchaeology / Pamela L. Geller.
2021
CC79.5.H85
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Title
Theorizing bioarchaeology / Pamela L. Geller.
Author
Geller, Pamela L., author.
ISBN
9783030707040 (electronic bk.)
3030707040 (electronic bk.)
3030707024
9783030707026
3030707040 (electronic bk.)
3030707024
9783030707026
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2021]
Copyright
©2021
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xiii, 150 pages) : illustrations.
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-030-70704-0 doi
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CC79.5.H85
Dewey Decimal Classification
930.1
Summary
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's thoughtful engagement with critical social theorizing's an contribute insightful and more ethical outcomes. To do so, it focuses on social theoretical concepts of pertinence to bioarchaeological studies: habitus, the normal, intersectionality, necropolitics, and bioethos. These concepts can deepen study of plasticity, disease, gender, violence, and race and ethnicity, as well as advance the field's decolonization efforts. This book also works to overcome the challenges presented by dense social theorizing, which has paid little attention to real bodies. It historicizes, explains, and adapts concepts, as well as discusses archaeological, historic, and contemporary case studies from around the world. Theorizing Bioarchaeology is intended for individuals who may have initially dismissed social theorizing as postmodern but now acknowledge this characterization as oversimplified. It is for readers who foster curiosity about bioarchaeology's contradictions and common sense. The ideas contained in these pages may also be of use to students who know that it is naive at best and myopic at worst to presume data derived from bodies speak for themselves.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Series
Bioarchaeology and social theory, 2567-6776
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Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Bioarchaeology as a Young and Emerging Discipline
Chapter 2. Evolutionary Theory and Cultural Ecology/Human Behavioral Ecology Theory
Chapter 3. Theories on Society and Inequality
Chapter 4. Gender and Identity Theory
Chapter 5. Violence Theory
Chapter 6. Colonialism Theory
Chapter 7. Practice Theory and Human Experience
Chapter 8. Future Directions.
Chapter 2. Evolutionary Theory and Cultural Ecology/Human Behavioral Ecology Theory
Chapter 3. Theories on Society and Inequality
Chapter 4. Gender and Identity Theory
Chapter 5. Violence Theory
Chapter 6. Colonialism Theory
Chapter 7. Practice Theory and Human Experience
Chapter 8. Future Directions.