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  • The Bodies Poetic

    Identity and Interaction with the Dead

    by Anna Osterholtz ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book examines the intricate relationships between the living and the dead, revealing how these interactions shape group identities and facilitate ongoing negotiations of self and community. Beginning with a rich exploration of bioarchaeological theories, this volume introduces an enriched Poetics model, which deepens our understanding of not just skeletal remains, but the broader contexts ... Read more

    $166.49 CAD

  • Poetics of Processing

    Memory Formation, Identity, and the Handling of the Dead

    Edited by Anna J. Osterholtz ...
    In 2002, Neil Whitehead published Dark Shamans: Kanaimà and the Poetics of Violent Death, in which he applied the concept of poetics to the study of violence and observed the power of violence in the creation and expression of identity and social relationships. The Poetics of Processing applies Whitehead’s theory on violence to mortuary and skeletal assemblages in the Andes, Mexico, the US ... Read more

    $69.29 CAD

  • The Poetics of Violence in Afroeurasian Bioarchaeology

    Edited by Roselyn A. Campbell, Anna J. Osterholtz ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This volume explores violence in bioarchaeological case studies from various cultures, geographic regions, and time periods throughout the Eastern Hemisphere through the lens of Neil Whitehead's concept of poetics. It emphasizes the role and power of performance and ritual in violent acts, and how different types of violence are used within societies. Whitehead’s poetics of violence model has ... Read more

    $166.49 CAD

  • Commingled and Disarticulated Human Remains

    Working Toward Improved Theory, Method, and Data

    Edited by Anna J. Osterholtz, Kathryn M. Baustian, Debra L. Martin ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Commingled and Disarticulated Human Remains:Working Toward Improved Theory, Method, and Data brings together research that provides innovative methodologies for the analysis of commingled human remains. It has temporal and spatial breadth, with case studies coming from pre-state to historic periods, as well as from both the New and Old World. Highlights of this volume include:standardizes methods ... Read more

    $115.29 CAD

  • Theoretical Approaches to Analysis and Interpretation of Commingled Human Remains

    Edited by Anna J. Osterholtz ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This volume centers on the application of social theory to commingled remains with special focus on the cultural processes that create the assemblages as a way to better understand issues of meaning, social structure and interaction, and lived experience in the past. The importance of the application of theoretical frameworks to bioarchaeology in general has been recognized, but commingled and ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD

  • Bodies and Lives in Ancient America

    Health Before Columbus

    by Debra Martin, Anna Osterholtz ...
    Series series Bodies and Lives
    Bodies and Lives in Ancient America offers a broad overview of what it was like to live and die throughout North America before European contact. Using a unique life history approach, the book moves from pregnancy and birth through to senescence. Drawing on biological data gathered from human remains, as well as cultural and environmental data derived from archaeological investigations, the ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

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  • The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Death and Burial

    Edited by Sarah Tarlow, Liv Nilsson Stutz ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Death and Burial reviews the current state of mortuary archaeology and its practice, highlighting its often contentious place in the modern socio-politics of archaeology. It contains forty-four chapters which focus on the history of the discipline and its current scientific techniques and methods. Written by leading, international scholars in the field, it ... Read more

    $45.59 CAD

  • Social Bioarchaeology

    Edited by Sabrina C. Agarwal, Bonnie A. Glencross ...
    Illustrates new methodological directions in analyzing human social and biological variationOffers a wide array of research on past populations around the globeExplains the central features of bioarchaeological research by key researchers and established experts around the world ... Read more

    $55.99 CAD

  • Handbook of Archaeological Theories

    by R. Alexander Bentley, Kenneth M. Ames, Alex W. Barker, Peter Bellwood, Reinhard Bernbeck, John Bintliff, Briggs Buchanan, Mark Collard0, Tom D. Dillehay1, Timothy Earle2, Don D. Fowler3, Liane Gabora4, Andrew Gardner5, David W.J. Gill6, Kelly Hays-Gilpin7, ThomasJ Green8, Edward A. Jolie9, Sian Jones0, Peter Jordan1, Stephanie Koerner2, Carl Lipo3, Ben Marler4, Herbert D.G. Maschner5, Randall H. McGuire6, Ian J. McNiven7, Mark Pluciennuk8, Steven D. Price9, Lynette Russell0, Marion Salter1, Michael Shanks2, Stephen Shennan3, Timothy Taylor4, Patty Jo Watson5, Gillian Wallace6, Gary S. Webster7, David S. Whitley8, David R. Yesner9, Marek Zvelebil0 ...
    This handbook gathers original, authoritative articles from leading archaeologists to compile the latest thinking about archaeological theory. The authors provide a comprehensive picture of the theoretical foundations by which archaeologists contextualize and analyze their archaeological data. Student readers will also gain a sense of the immense power that theory has for building interpretations ... Read more

    $142.19 CAD

  • Studies in Forensic Biohistory

    Anthropological Perspectives

    Edited by Christopher M. Stojanowski, William N. Duncan ...
    Series Book 75 - Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology
    The lives of kings, poets, authors, criminals and celebrities are a perpetual fascination in the media and popular culture, and for decades anthropologists and other scientists have participated in 'post-mortem dissections' of the lives of historical figures. In this field of biohistory, researchers have identified and analyzed these figures' bodies using technologies such as DNA fingerprinting, ... Read more

    $51.19 CAD

  • The Archaeology of Disease

    by Charlotte A. Roberts, Mary E. Lewis, Jacalyn Duffin, Keith Manchester ...
    This revised fourth edition of The Archaeology of Disease focuses on reconstructing the origin, evolution, and history of disease as seen mainly through human skeletons from archaeological sites. In addition, this edition addresses new concepts in medicine and explores the challenges faced by individuals and populations, including their children.Integrating conceptual frameworks from ... Read more

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  • The Lancet: Zoonoses

    Global Health Series

    Edited by The Lancet ...
    Endemic and enzootic zoonoses cause about a billion cases of illness in people and millions of deaths every year, and emerging zoonoses are a rising threat to global health. Zoonoses – pathogenic organisms such as bacteria or viruses which we share with animals – cause more than 60% of human infectious diseases, and have been responsible for some of the most devastating disease outbreaks in recent ... Read more

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