Bioarchaeology of Impairment and Disability: Theoretical, Ethnohistorical, and Methodological Perspectives

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Front Matter....Pages i-xi Mind the Gap: Bridging Disability Studies and Bioarchaeology—An Introduction....Pages 1-15 Front Matter....Pages 17-17 Accommodating Critical Disability Studies in Bioarchaeology....Pages 19-38 Consideration of Disability from the Perspective of the Medical Model....Pages 39-55 Historiography of Disablement and the South Asian Context: The Case of Shah Daula’s Chuhas....Pages 57-74 Front Matter....Pages 75-75 Differently Abled: Africanisms, Disability, and Power in the Age of Transatlantic Slavery....Pages 77-94 Kojo’s Dis/Ability: The Interpretation of Spinal Pathology in the Context of an Eighteenth-Century Jamaican Maroon Community....Pages 95-117 Rendered Unfit: “Defective” Children in the Erie County Poorhouse....Pages 119-138 Front Matter....Pages 139-139 The Bioarchaeology of Back Pain....Pages 141-157 Using Population Health Constructs to Explore Impairment and Disability in Knee Osteoarthritis....Pages 159-182 Quantifying Impairment and Disability in Bioarchaeological Assemblages....Pages 183-200 Injuries, Impairment, and Intersecting Identities: The Poor in Buffalo, NY 1851–1913....Pages 201-222 Front Matter....Pages 223-223 Impairment, Disability, and Identity in the Middle Woodland Period: Life at the Juncture of Achondroplasia, Pregnancy, and Infection....Pages 225-248 Attempting to Distinguish Impairment from Disability in the Bioarchaeological Record: An Example from DeArmond Mound (40RE12) in East Tennessee....Pages 249-267 Anglo-Saxon Concepts of Dis/Ability: Placing Disease at Great Chesterford in Its Wider Context....Pages 269-289 Back Matter....Pages 291-292