The bioarchaeology of disaster : how catastrophes change our skeletons / Danielle Shawn Kurin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kurin, Danielle Shawn, author.

Contributor:

Taylor & Francis eBooks.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Archaeology and natural disasters.

Human remains (Archaeology).

Physical Description:

1 online resource

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Other Title:

How catastrophes change our skeletons

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2022.

System Details:

text file

Biography/History:

Danielle Shawn Kurin is assistant professor, Department of Anthropology, and director of the Phillip Walker Bioarchaeology Lab at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She received her Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University and her A.B. from Bryn Mawr College. A former Fulbright Fellow, she has received research support from institutions such as the National Science Foundation.

Contents:

Part I: Natural catastrophes: earthquakes, volcanoes, hurricanes and floods

Eruption of Mount Vesuvius and the destruction of Pompeii, 79 A.D.

Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, 2005

Haitian Earthquake, 2010

Part II: Environmental disasters

Ecocide in Norse Greenland, 15th century

Deforestation of Easter Island, 17th century

Part III: Biological disasters: epidemics and famines

Bubonic plague, the black death of Europe and the Middle East, 1346-1353

Syphilis crosses the Atlantic, 15th century

Jamestown, Virginia, starving time of 1609-10

New England's vampire panic, 19th century

Irish potato famine, 1845-1852

Part IV: Industrial and occupational hazards and calamities

Soot wart cancer among British chimney sweeps, 18th-19th centuries

Accidents in South Africa's Kimberley's Big Hole diamond mine, 1880-90s

Part V: Catastrophes of human conflict: terrorism, genocide, and war

Chanka communal violence in the Andes, 11th-15th centuries

Smallpox in colonial America, 16th-18th centuries

U.S. Civil War amputations and prosthetics, 1861-1865

Killing fields of Cambodia, 1975-1979

Crash of Pan Am 103 in Lockerbie, Scotland, 1988

Rwandan genocide, 1994

Part VI: Calamities and abuse of the socially marginalized: identity, stigma, and

persecution

Sati, widow burning in India, 10th

19th centuries

Eunuchs of China's Ming Dynasty, 16th-17th centuries

Mutiny of the Batavia, Indian Ocean, 1629

Yakuza of Japan, 17th -21st centuries

Infanticide and abortion in Five Points, New York, 19th century

Kalawao Leper Colony, Hawai'i, 19th-20th centuries.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

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Other Format:

Print version: Kurin, Danielle Shawn. Bioarchaeology of disaster

ISBN:

9781003229209

1003229204

9781000478983

100047898X

9781000478938

1000478939

Publisher Number:

40030861077

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