Bioarchaeological Analyses and Bodies: New Ways of Knowing Anatomical and Archaeological Skeletal Collections

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This volume features bioarchaeological research that interrogates the human skeleton in concert with material culture, ethnographic data and archival research. This approach provides examples of how these intersections of inquiry can be used to consider the larger social and political contexts in which people lived and the manner in which they died. Bioarchaeologists are in a unique position to develop rich interpretations of the lived experiences of skeletonized individuals. Using their skills in multiple contexts, bioarchaeologists are also situated to consider the ethical nature and inherent humanity of the research collections that have been used because they represent deceased for whom there are records identifying them. These collections have been the basis for generating basic information regarding the human skeletal transcript. Ironically though, these collections themselves have not been studied with the same degree of understanding and interpretation that is applied to archaeological collections. Front Matter ....Pages i-xiii Introduction (Pamela K. Stone)....Pages 1-8 Front Matter ....Pages 9-9 “Whatever Was Once Associated with him, Continues to Bear his Stamp”: Articulating and Dissecting George S. Huntington and His Anatomical Collection (Aja Lans)....Pages 11-26 Anatomical Collections as the Anthropological Other: Some Considerations (Rachel Watkins)....Pages 27-47 More Than the Sum Total of Their Parts: Restoring Identity by Recombining a Skeletal Collection with Its Texts (Adam Netzer Zimmer)....Pages 49-69 At the Intersections of Race, Poverty, Gender, and Science: A Museum Mortuary for Twentieth Century Fetuses and Infants (Jennifer L. Muller, Margaret S. Butler)....Pages 71-88 Recovering the Lived Body from Bodies of Evidence: Interrogation of Diagnostic Criteria and Parameters for Disease Ecology Reconstructed from Skeletons Within Anatomical and Medical Anatomical Collections (Molly K. Zuckerman)....Pages 89-107 Front Matter ....Pages 109-109 Lives Lost: What Burial Vault Studies Reveal About Eighteenth-Century Identities (Douglas W. Owsley, Karin S. Bruwelheide, Kathryn G. Barca, Susan K. Reidy, Raquel E. Fleskes)....Pages 111-145 ‘A Mass of Crooked Alphabets’: The Construction and Othering of Working Class Bodies in Industrial England (Rebecca Gowland)....Pages 147-163 From Womb to Tomb? Disrupting the Narrative of the Reproductive Female Body (Pamela K. Stone)....Pages 165-189 Mother, Laborer, Captive, and Leader: Reassessing the Various Roles that Females Held Among the Ancestral Pueblo in the American Southwest (Ryan Harrod, Pamela K. Stone)....Pages 191-212 A Skull’s Tale: From Middle Bronze Age Subject to Teaching Collection “Object” (Madison Long, Alexis T. Boutin)....Pages 213-230 Conclusion: Challenging the Narrative (Kenneth C. Nystrom)....Pages 231-242 Back Matter ....Pages 243-248