Exploring Sex and Gender in Bioarchaeology / edited by Sabrina C. Agarwal and Julie K. Wesp.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wesp, Julie K., editor.

Agarwal, Sabrina C., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human remains (Archaeology)--Sex differences.

Human remains (Archaeology).

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (307 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albuquerque, [New Mexico] : University of New Mexico Press, 2017.

Summary:

This volume brings together the latest approaches in bioarchaeology in the study of sex and gender.

Contents:

Front Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Preface / Sabrina C. Agarwal and Julie K. Wesp

1: Sex, Gender, and Anthropology: Moving Bioarchaeology Outside the Subdiscipline / Rosemary A. Joyce

Part I: Theoretical Approaches to Sex and Gender in the Past

2: Bones, Biases, and Birth: Excavating Contemporary Gender Norms from Reproductive Bodies of the Past / Dana Walrath

3: Bioarchaeological Approaches to Nonbinary Genders: Case Studies from Native North America / Sandra E. Hollimon

4: Brave Old World: Ancient DNA Testing and Sex Determination / Pamela L. Geller

5: Embodying Sex/Gender Systems in Bioarchaeological Research / Julie K. Wesp

Part II: Bioarchaeological Reconstructions of Gendered Identity, Health, and Disease

6: On the Stories of Men and the Substance of Women: Interrogating Gender through Violence / Shannon A. Novak

7: Understanding Sex- and Gender-Related Patterns of Bone Loss and Health in the Past: A Case Study from the Neolithic Community of Çatalhöyük / Sabrina C. Agarwal

8: Sex and Frailty: Patterns from Catastrophic and Attritional Assemblages in Medieval Europe / Sharon N. DeWitte

9: Mercury in the Midst of Mars and Venus: Reconstructing Gender, Sexuality, and Socioeconomic Status in Relation to Mercury Treatment for Syphilis in Seventeenth- to Nineteenth-Century London / Molly K. Zuckerman

10: Bioarchaeology of Oral Health: Sex and Gender Differences in Dental Disease / John R. Lukacs

Index

Back Cover.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780826352590

0826352596

OCLC:

948669411