The bioarchaeology of structural violence : a theoretical framework for Industrial Era inequality / Lori A. Tremblay, Sarah Reedy, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Tremblay, Lori A., editor.

Reedy, Sarah, editor.

Series:

Bioarchaeology and social theory

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human remains (Archaeology).

Violence--Sociological aspects.

Violence.

Physical Description:

xiv, 284 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2020]

Summary:

This volume is a resource for bioarchaeologists interested in using a structural violence framework to better understand and contextualize the lived experiences of past populations. One of the most important elements of bioarchaeological research is the study of health disparities in past populations. This book offers an analysis of such work, but with the benefit of an overarching theoretical framework. It examines the theoretical framework used by scholars in cultural and medical anthropology to explore how social, political, and/or socioeconomic structures and institutions create inequalities resulting in health disparities for the most vulnerable or marginalized segments of contemporary populations. It then takes this framework and shows how it can allow researchers in bioarchaeology to interpret such socio-cultural factors through analyzing human skeletal remains of past populations. The book discusses the framework and its applications based on two main themes: the structural violence of gender inequality and the structural violence of social and socioeconomic inequalities.

Contents:

Chapter 1. Introduction (Lori A. Tremblay And Sarah Reedy)

Part I: The Structural Violence of Gender Inequality

Chapter 2. Female beauty, bodies, binding, and the bioarchaeology of structural violence in the industrial era through the lens of critical white feminism (Pamela K. Stone)

Chapter 3. Embodied discrimination and "mutilated historicity": Archiving black womens bodies in the Huntington collection (Aja M. Lans)

Chapter 4. Embodying industrialization: Inequality, structural violence, disease, and stress in working class and poor British women (Sarah Mathena-Allen and Molly K. Zuckerman). Chapter 5. Patriarchy in Industrial Era Europe: Skeletal evidence of male preference during growth (Sarah Reedy)

Part II: The Structural Violence of Social and Socioeconomic Inequalities

Chapter 6. The Erie County Poorhouse (1828-1926) as a Heterotopia: A bioarchaeological perspective (Jennifer L. Muller, Jennifer F. Byrnes, and David A. Ingleman)

Chapter 7. Norways Industrial Beginnings: New life challenges, recurring poverty, and the path to Tukthuset, Oslo House of Corrections (Gwyn Madden and Rose Drew)

Chapter 8. A new division of labor? Understanding structural violence through occupational stress: An examination of entheseal patterns and osteoarthritis in the Hamann-Todd collection (Anna Paraskevi Alioto)

Chapter 9. Products of industry: Pollution, health, and Englands Industrial Revolution (Sara A. McGuire)

Chapter 10. Health, well-being, and structural violence after sociopolitical revolution (Gina M. Agostini)

Chapter 11. Structural violence in antebellum New Orleans: How the interplay of socioeconomic status and law impacted the class structure of Louisianas port populations (Christine L. Halling and Ryan M. Seidemann)

Chapter 12. Conclusion (Sarah Reedy).

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

3030464393

9783030464394

OCLC:

1147266214

Publisher Number:

90103645763