Bioarchaeology of Impairment and Disability - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Bioarchaeology of Impairment and Disability write by Jennifer F. Byrnes. This book was released on 2017-06-28. Bioarchaeology of Impairment and Disability available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Over the years, impairment has been discussed in bioarchaeology, with some scholars providing carefully contextualized explanations for their causes and consequences. Such investigations typically take a case study approach and focus on the functional aspects of impairments. However, these interpretations are disconnected from disability theory discourse. Other social sciences and the humanities have far surpassed most of anthropology (with the exception of medical anthropology) in their integration of social theories of disability. This volume has three goals: The first goal of this edited volume is to present theoretical and methodological discussions on impairment and disability. The second goal of this volume is to emphasize the necessity of interdisciplinarity in discussions of impairment and disability within bioarchaeology. The third goal of the volume is to present various methodological approaches to quantifying impairment in skeletonized and mummified remains. This volume serves to engage scholars from many disciplines in our exploration of disability in the past, with particular emphasis on the bioarchaeological context.
Caring Through Time
Caring Through Time - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Caring Through Time write by Sartre. This book was released on 2024-07-03. Caring Through Time available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Caring Through Time: Bioarchaeology of Care for the Disabled (998 words) For millennia, archaeologists have meticulously pieced together the stories of the past through artifacts, architecture, and skeletal remains. However, a significant portion of the population has been largely overlooked: disabled and/or impaired individuals. Traditionally portrayed as liminal figures, shrouded in narratives of despair and neglect, they often vanish from the historical record (Doat, 2017). This skewed perspective results in an incomplete understanding of past societies, neglecting the rich tapestry of human experience that includes disability. A Missing Voice in the Past The archaeological record can be unforgiving to those who don't fit the mold of the "healthy" and "able-bodied." Skeletal evidence of disabilities like blindness, deafness, or mobility impairments is often overlooked or misinterpreted. Additionally, the emotional framing of disability in past societies, emphasizing "despitness" and "dread" (Metzler, 2013), leads to a focus on individual suffering rather than the social context of care and support.
Injury and Trauma in Bioarchaeology
Injury and Trauma in Bioarchaeology - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Injury and Trauma in Bioarchaeology write by Rebecca C. Redfern. This book was released on 2016-12-22. Injury and Trauma in Bioarchaeology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The remains of past people are a testament to their lived experiences and of the environment in which they lived. Synthesising the latest research, this book critically examines the sources of evidence used to understand and interpret violence in bioarchaeology, exploring the significant light such evidence can shed on past hierarchies, gender roles and life courses. The text draws on a diverse range of social and clinical science research to investigate violence and trauma in the archaeological record, focussing on human remains. It examines injury patterns in different groups as well as the biological, psychological and cultural factors that make us behave violently, how our living environment influences injury and violence, the models used to identify and interpret violence in the past, and how violence is used as a social tool. Drawing on a range of case studies, Redfern explores new research directions that will contribute to nuanced interpretations of past lives.
Emerging Perspectives on Disability Studies
Emerging Perspectives on Disability Studies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Emerging Perspectives on Disability Studies write by M. Wappett. This book was released on 2013-11-12. Emerging Perspectives on Disability Studies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Emerging Perspectives on Disability Studies brings together up-and-coming scholars whose works expand disability studies into new interdisciplinary contexts. This includes new perspectives on disability identity; historical constructions of (dis)ability; the geography of disability; the spiritual nature of disability; governmentality and disability rights; neurodiversity and challenges to medicalized constructions of autism; and questions of citizenship and participation in political and sexual economies. In sum, this volume uses disability studies as an innovative framework for its investigation into what it means to be human.
Care in the Past
Care in the Past - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Care in the Past write by Lindsay Powell. This book was released on 2016-11-30. Care in the Past available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Care-giving is an activity that has been practiced by all human societies. From the earliest societies through to the present, all humans have faced choices regarding how people in positions of dependency are to be treated. As such, care-giving, and the form it takes, is a central experience of being a human and one that is culturally mediated. Archaeology has tended to marginalise the study of care, and debates surrounding our ability to recognise it within the archaeological record have often remained implicit rather than a focus of discussion. These 12 papers examine the topic of care in past societies and specifically how we might recognise the provision of care in archaeological contexts and to open up an inter-disciplinary conversation, including historical, bioarchaeological, faunal and philosophical perspectives. The topic of ‘care’ is examined through three different strands: the provision of care throughout the life course, namely that provided to the youngest and oldest members of a society; care-giving and attitudes towards impairment and disability in prehistoric and historic contexts, and the role of animals as both recipients of care and as tools for its provision.
