The odd, the unusual, and the strange : bioarchaeological explorations of atypical burials / edited by Tracy K. Betsinger, Amy B. Scott, and Anastasia Tsaliki ; foreword by Eileen M. Murphy.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Betsinger, Tracy K., editor.

Scott, Amy B., editor.

Tsaliki, Anastasia, editor.

Murphy, Eileen M., writer of foreword.

JSTOR (Online Service)

Series:

Bioarchaeological interpretations of the human past

Bioarchaeological interpretations of the human past: local, regional, and global perspectives

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Burial--History.

Burial.

Excavations (Archaeology).

Burial--Social aspects--History.

Death--Social aspects--History.

Death.

Death--Social aspects.

History.

Social aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxii, 422 pages.)

Place of Publication:

Gainesville : University of Florida Press, [2020]

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Deconstructing "deviant": an introduction to the history of atypical burials and the importance of context in the bioarchaeological record / Amy B. Scott, Tracy K. Betsinger, Anastasia Tsaliki

Bodies among fragments: non-normative inhumations among the preclassic and classic period Hohokam in the Tucson Basin / Jessica I. Cerezo-Román

Interpreting a multiple burial in an early ancestral Pueblo village / Ann L.W. Stodder

A young man twice burned: a deviant burial from west-central Illinois / Della Collins Cook, Laura Gano, Kristin M. Hedman, Susan Spencer Helfrich, Andrew R. Thompson

The odd man out in a pioneer cemetery at Seccombe Lake Park, San Bernadino, California / Patricia M. Lambert

Defining non-normative practices in a diverse funerary record: insights from the Caribbean / Hayley L. Mickleburgh, Menno L.P. Hoogland, Jason E. Laffoon, Darlene A. Weston, Roberto Valcárcel Rojas, Anne van Duijvenbode, Angus A.A. Mol

Good, bad, or indifferent? : a unique "deviant" burial from the formative site of Aranjuez-Santa Lucía, south central Andes / Olga U. Gabelmann, Lawrence S. Owens

The hunchback, the contortionist, the man with the stolen identity, and the One who will be born in the afterlife: pre-Hispanic deviant burials from Huarmey Valley, Peru / Wiesław Więckowski, Miłosz Giersz, Roberto Pimentel Nita

What's the norm? : "irregular" and "regular" burial practices of the early Iron age in Central Europe / Nils Müller-Scheessel, Carola Benszin, Gisela Grupe, Annette Schwentke, Anja Staskiewicz, Thomas Tütken, Joachim Wahl

Burial in a kiln: transgression and punishment in late antiquity / Anastasia Tsaliki

Variation beyond the grave: contextualizing unusual burials in early medieval Bohemia / Lauren Hosek

Theoretical and methodological approaches to non-normative burials in Finland in the eleventh-thirteenth centuries AD / Ulla Moilanen

Atypical burials in early medieval Poland: a critical overview / Leszek Gardeła

Does health define deviancy? : non-normative burials in post-medieval Poland / Tracy K. Betsinger, Amy B. Scott

The "vampires" of Lesbos: detecting and interpreting anti-revenant ritual in Greece / Sandra Garvie-Lok, Anastasia Tsaliki

Natural mummification as a non-normative mortuary custom of modern period Sicily (1600-1800) / Dario Piombino-Mascali, Kenneth C. Nystrom

Out of range? : non-normative funerary practices from the Neolithic to the early twentieth century at Çatalhöyük, Turkey / Scott D. Haddow, Josh W. Sadvari, Christopher J. Knüsel, Sophie V. Moore, Selin E. Nugent, Clark Spencer Larsen

Deviant treatment of the body as a mortuary ritual: a case from the middle Jomon period in eastern Japan / Takeshi Ishikawa

Ancestors, conflict, and criminality in ancient China and Mongolia / Christine Lee

Dependent deviance: castration and deviant burial / Kathryn Reusch

Afterword / Andrew Reynolds.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781683401407

1683401409

Publisher Number:

40029786396

Access Restriction:

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