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Foreword; Contents; Editors and Contributors; 1 Mind the Gap: Bridging Disability Studies and Bioarchaeology-An Introduction; A Brief Introduction to Disability Studies and Theory; Bioarchaeology and Disability; Organization of the Volume; Part I: Theoretical Perspectives on Impairment and Disability; Part II: Ethnohistorical Interpretations: Ability, Disability, and Alternate Ability; Part III: Quantitative Methods in Impairment and Disability: Bioarchaeological Approaches; Part IV: Case Studies of Impairment and Disability in the Past; Acknowledgements; References
Theoretical Perspectives on Impairment and Disability2 Accommodating Critical Disability Studies in Bioarchaeology; Introduction; Bioarchaeology: Toward Engaging with Disability Studies; Models of Disability and Bioarchaeology; Critical Disability Studies and Bioarchaeology; The Construction of Impairment; The Employment of Foucauldian Approaches to Disability; The Bioarchaeology of Care and Critical Disability Studies; Conclusion; Acknowledgments; References; 3 Consideration of Disability from the Perspective of the Medical Model; Disability Features; Individual Differences
Social EnvironmentNarratives from a Physical Therapist; Summary; Acknowledgements; References; 4 Historiography of Disablement and the South Asian Context: The Case of Shah Daula's Chuhas; Introduction; Disability History of the South Asian Context; Shah Daula's Chuhas as Objects of Disability History; Of Rational Explanations and Irrational Practices; 'Cross-Cultural Misidentification'; Chuhas as Manifestations of Culturally Specific Psychiatric Conditions; Disability on a Different Model?; Conclusion; Acknowledgements; References
Ethnohistorical Interpretations: Ability, Disability, and Alternate Ability5 Differently Abled: Africanisms, Disability, and Power in the Age of Transatlantic Slavery; Introduction; Literature Review; Africanizing "Impairment" and "Disability"; Social Power and Differently Abled Bodyminds in Precolonial West Africa; New World Echoes of Differently Abled Bodyminds; Conclusion; Acknowledgements; References; 6 Kojo's Dis/Ability: The Interpretation of Spinal Pathology in the Context of an Eighteenth-Century Jamaican Maroon Community; Introduction; Theory; Historical Context
Somewhat a Majestic Look: The Sketch of a ManHistorical Sources; Primary Written History; Secondary and Derivative Written History; Maroon Oral Traditions; Body Differences in Africa and the Diaspora; Discussion and Conclusions; Acknowledgements; References; 7 Rendered Unfit: "Defective" Children in the Erie County Poorhouse; Introduction; The Establishment of New York State County Poorhouses; Child-Saving, Hereditary Pauperism, and the Children's Law of 1875; Removal of Children from the Poorhouse; "Unfit" Children; Savior Children and "Defective" Children
Theoretical Perspectives on Impairment and Disability2 Accommodating Critical Disability Studies in Bioarchaeology; Introduction; Bioarchaeology: Toward Engaging with Disability Studies; Models of Disability and Bioarchaeology; Critical Disability Studies and Bioarchaeology; The Construction of Impairment; The Employment of Foucauldian Approaches to Disability; The Bioarchaeology of Care and Critical Disability Studies; Conclusion; Acknowledgments; References; 3 Consideration of Disability from the Perspective of the Medical Model; Disability Features; Individual Differences
Social EnvironmentNarratives from a Physical Therapist; Summary; Acknowledgements; References; 4 Historiography of Disablement and the South Asian Context: The Case of Shah Daula's Chuhas; Introduction; Disability History of the South Asian Context; Shah Daula's Chuhas as Objects of Disability History; Of Rational Explanations and Irrational Practices; 'Cross-Cultural Misidentification'; Chuhas as Manifestations of Culturally Specific Psychiatric Conditions; Disability on a Different Model?; Conclusion; Acknowledgements; References
Ethnohistorical Interpretations: Ability, Disability, and Alternate Ability5 Differently Abled: Africanisms, Disability, and Power in the Age of Transatlantic Slavery; Introduction; Literature Review; Africanizing "Impairment" and "Disability"; Social Power and Differently Abled Bodyminds in Precolonial West Africa; New World Echoes of Differently Abled Bodyminds; Conclusion; Acknowledgements; References; 6 Kojo's Dis/Ability: The Interpretation of Spinal Pathology in the Context of an Eighteenth-Century Jamaican Maroon Community; Introduction; Theory; Historical Context
Somewhat a Majestic Look: The Sketch of a ManHistorical Sources; Primary Written History; Secondary and Derivative Written History; Maroon Oral Traditions; Body Differences in Africa and the Diaspora; Discussion and Conclusions; Acknowledgements; References; 7 Rendered Unfit: "Defective" Children in the Erie County Poorhouse; Introduction; The Establishment of New York State County Poorhouses; Child-Saving, Hereditary Pauperism, and the Children's Law of 1875; Removal of Children from the Poorhouse; "Unfit" Children; Savior Children and "Defective" Children