Colonized bodies, worlds transformed : toward a global bioarchaeology of contact and colonialism / edited by Melissa S. Murphy and Haagen D. Klaus ; foreword by Clark Spencer Larsen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Larsen, Clark Spencer, author of introduction.

Contributor:

Murphy, Melissa Scott, editor.

Klaus, Haagen D., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human remains (Archaeology)--United States.

Human remains (Archaeology).

Archaeology and history--United States.

Archaeology and history.

Ethnoarchaeology.

United States.

Ethnoarchaeology--United States.

Social archaeology.

Physical Description:

xvii, 459 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2017]

Summary:

"This book merges bioarchaeology and historical archaeology to examine changes to diet, mortuary practices, and diseases in post-fifteenth century colonialism from a global perspective"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Transcending conquest: bioarchaeological perspectives on conquest and culture contact for the twenty-first century / Melissa S. Murphy and Haagen D. Klaus

Life, death, and mortuary practices after contact and colonialism

Exhuming differences and continuities after colonialism at Puruchuco-Huaquerones, Peru / Melissa S. Murphy, Maria Fernanda Boza, and Catherine Gaither

New Kingdom Egyptian colonialism in Nubia at the third cataract: a diachronic examination of sociopolitical transition (1750-650 B.C.) / Michele R. Buzon and Stuart Tyson Smith

Escaping conquest? A first look at regional cultural and biological variation in postcontact Eten, Peru / Haagen D. Klaus and Rosabella Alvarez-Calderón

The social structuring of biological stress in contact-era Spanish Florida: a bioarchaeological case

Study from Santa Catalina de Guale, St. Catherines Island, Georgia / Lauren A. Winkler, Clark Spencer Larsen, Victor D. Thompson, Paul W. Sciulli, Dale L. Hutchinson, David Hurst Thomas, Elliot H. Blair, and Matthew C. Sanger

Frontiers, colonial entanglements, and diversity

Living on the edge: Maya identity and skeletal biology on the Spanish frontier / Amanda R. Harvey, Marie Elaine Danforth, and Mark N. Cohen

Double coloniality in Tierra del Fuego, Argentina: a bioarchaeological and historiographical approach to Selk?nam demographics and health (La Candelaria Mission, late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries) / Ricardo A. Guichón, Romina Casali, Pamela García Laborde, Melisa A. Salerno, and Rocío Guichón

Impacts of imperial interests on health and economy in the Byzantine Near East / Megan A. Perry

Imperialism and physiological stress in Rome, first to third centuries A.D. / Kristina Killgrove

The body and identity under colonialism

Survival and abandonment of indigenous head-shaping practices in Iberian America after European contact / Vera Tiesler and Pilar Zabala

A glimpse of the ancient régime in the French colonies: a consideration of ancestry and health at the Moran site (22hr511), Biloxi, Mississippi / Marie Elaine Danforth, Danielle N. Cook, J. Lynn Funkhouser, Barbara T. Hester, and Heather Guzik

Effects of colonialism from the perspective of craniofacial variation: comparing case studies involving African populations / Isabelle Ribot, Alan G. Morris, and Emily S. Renschler

Hybridity? change? continuity? survival? biodistance and the identity of colonial burials from Magdalena de Cao Viejo, Chicama Valley, Peru / Alejandra Ortiz, Melissa S. Murphy, Jason Toohey, and Catherine Gaither

The bioarchaeology of colonialism: past perspectives and future prospects / Christopher M. Stojanowski.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780813060750

0813060753

OCLC:

945357417