Bioarchaeology of impairment and disability : theoretical, ethnohistorical, and methodological perspectives

Bioarchaeology of impairment and disability : theoretical, ethnohistorical, and methodological perspectives / Jennifer F. Byrnes, Jennifer L. Muller, editors.

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 impairments. However, these interpret...

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Other Authors: Byrnes, Jennifer F. (Editor), Muller, Jennifer Lynn (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2017]
Series:Bioarchaeology and social theory.
Subjects:
Human remains (Archaeology)
People with disabilities.
Ethnoarchaeology.
Mummies.
Culture.
Social perception.
physically handicapped.
handicapped.
ethnoarchaeology.
culture note.
culture (concept)
Medical anthropology.
Archaeology.
HISTORY > Ancient > General.
Social perception
Culture
Ethnoarchaeology
Mummies
People with disabilities
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Table of Contents:
  • Mind the gap: bridging disability studies and bioarchaeology: an introduction / Jennifer F. Byrnes and Jennifer L. Muller
  • Accommodating critical disability studies in bioarchaeology / Russell Shuttleworth and Helen Meekosha
  • Consideration of disability from the perspective of the medial model / Susan E. Roush
  • Historiography of disablement and the south Asian context: the case of Shah Daula's chuhas / Shilpaa Anand
  • Differently abled: Africanisms, disability, and power in the age of transatlantic slavery / Jenifer L. Barclay
  • Kojo's dis/ability: the interpretation of spinal pathology in the context of an eighteenth-century Jamaican maroon community / David A. Ingleman
  • Rendered unfit: "defective" children in the Erie county poorhouse / Jennifer L. Muller
  • The bioarchaelogy of back pain / Kimberly A. Plomp
  • Using population health constructs to explore impairment and disability in knee osteoarthritis / Janet L. Young and Edward D. Lemaire
  • Quantifying impairment and disability in bioarchaeological assemblages / Ann L.W. Stodder
  • Injuries, impairment, and intersecting identities: the poor in Buffalo, NY 1851-1913 / Jennifer F. Byrnes
  • Impairment, disability, and identity in the middle woodland period: life at the juncture of achondroplasia, pregnancy, and infection / Aviva A. Cormier and Jane E. Buikstra
  • Attempting to distinguish impairment from disability in the bioarchaeological record: an example from DeArmond mound (40RE12) in East Tennessee / Jonathan D. Bethard, Elizabeth A. DiGangi and Lynne P. Sullivan
  • Anglo-Saxon concepts of dis/ability: placing disease at Great Chesterford in its wider context / Sonia Zakrzewski, Stephanie Evelyn-Wright and Sarah Inskip.

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