Bioarchaeology of women and children in times of war : case studies from the Americas / Debra L. Martin, Caryn Tegtmeyer, editors.
Tegtmeyer, Caryn E., 1988- editor.; Martin, Debra L. (Professor of Biological Anthropology), editor.
2017
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Title Bioarchaeology of women and children in times of war : case studies from the Americas / Debra L. Martin, Caryn Tegtmeyer, editors.
ISBN 9783319483962 (electronic book)
331948396X (electronic book)
9783319483955
3319483951
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48396-2
Published Cham, Switzerland : Springer, 2017.
Copyright ©2017
Language English
Description 1 online resource.
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-319-48396-2 doi
Call Number CC100
Dewey Decimal Classification 930.1
Summary 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 different groups during warfare, this collection of studies focuses on the broader impacts of war both during warfare but also long after the conflict is over. The volume will show that during periods of violence and warfare, many suffer beyond those individuals directly involved in battle. From pre-Hispanic Peru to Ming dynasty Mongolia to the Civil War-era United States to the present, warfare has been and is a public health disaster, particularly for women and children. Individuals and populations suffer from displacement, sometimes permanently, due to loss of food and resources and an increased risk of contracting communicable diseases, which results from the poor conditions and tight spaces present in most refugee camps, ancient and modern. Bioarchaeology can provide a more nuanced lens through which to examine the effects of warfare on life, morbidity, and mortality, bringing individuals not traditionally considered by studies of warfare and prolonged violence into focus. Inclusion of these groups in discussions of warfare can increase our understanding of not only the biological but also the social meaning and costs of warfare.
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Martin, Debra L. (Professor of Biological Anthropology), editor.
Series Bioarchaeology and social theory.
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Dedication; Foreword; Contents; Contributors; About the Editors; Chapter 1: The Bioarchaeology of Women, Children, and Other Vulnerable Groups in Times of War; Introduction; Volume Focus and Organization; References; Chapter 2: Shattered Mirrors: Gender, Age, and Westernized Interpretations of War (and Violence) in the Past; Introduction; Using Modern Terminology and Concepts, and Interpreting Meaning in the Past; A Brief Note on Scope and Scale; Engendering the Past and Deciphering Intersections in Forms of Violence

Why the Continuum of Violence Might Be Problematic: Taking a Cautionary Stance Conclusion; References; Chapter 3: War at the Door: Evolutionary Considerations of Warfare and Female Fighters; Introduction; Combatants and Battlefields: Binary Structures and the People and Places of War; Case Study: Morton Village and the Norris Farms #36 Cemetery; Village Life; Osteological and Mortuary Data; Discussion; Conclusion; References

Chapter 4: Politics and Social Substitution in Total War: Exploring the Treatment of Combatants and Noncombatants During the Mississippian Period of the Central Illinois Valley Introduction; Mississippian Chiefdoms and War; The Central Illinois Valley; Methods; Results; Sample Demography; Warfare-Related Trauma and Victim Interment; Discussion and Conclusion; References; Chapter 5: When Elites Wage War: Violence and Social Coercion Along the Chaco Meridian; Introduction; Women and Children as Noncombatants; Background to Study Area; Chaco Canyon; Aztec Ruins; Paquimé

Evidence of Violence in the American Southwest Data Set/Sample; Chaco Canyon; Aztec Ruins; Paquimé; The Effects of Warfare on Noncombatants; Chaco Canyon; Aztec Ruins; Paquimé; Conclusions; References; Chapter 6: Caught in a Cataclysm: Effects of Pueblo Warfare on Noncombatants in the Northern Southwest; Introduction; Background to Study Area; Evidence of Violence in the Northern Southwest; The Data Set; Detecting the Effects of Warfare on the Vulnerable; Conclusions; References

Chapter 7: The Poetics of Annihilation: On the Presence of Women and Children at Massacre Sites in the Ancient Southwest Introduction; Background; Evidence for the Massacre of Women and Children; Sacred Ridge; Demography and Violence; Mancos Canyon; Demography and Violence; Awat'ovi/Polacca Wash; Demography and Violence; Massacres are Different from Warfare; Conclusions; References; Chapter 8: Army Health Care for Sable Soldiers During the American Civil War; Introduction; The American Civil War: Background and Attitudes Toward African Americans; Materials and Methods

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