Overview
- Is Unique in Focusing Specifically on Bioarchaeological Research of the Industrial Era
- Offers Researchers a Chance to Learn about Past Experiences using the Body as Evidence
- Provides New Insights and Innovative ways for Bioarchaeologists to Research and Understand the Past
- Allows Increased Opportunities for Inter Disciplinary Connections and Theoretical Approaches
Part of the book series: Bioarchaeology and Social Theory (BST)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The Structural Violence of Gender Inequality
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Front Matter
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The Structural Violence of Social and Socioeconomic Inequalities
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Keywords
- Structural Violence of Gender Inequality
- mutilated historicity
- Archiving Black Women’s Bodies
- Chronic and Episodic Biological Stress in Working Class Women
- Trauma in Working Class English Women
- Patriarchy in Industrial Era Europe
- Skeletal Evidence of Male Preference During Growth
- bioarchaeology of structural violence in the Victorian Era
- Beauty and bodies in the Victorian Era
- Structural Violence of Social and Socioeconomic Inequalities
- Erie County Poorhouse
- Tukthuset, Oslo House of Corrections
- Entheseal Stress Patterns as a form of Structural Violence
- Hamman-Todd Osteological Collection
- Pollution, Health, and England’s Industrial Revolution
- Workload intensity and health during Portugal’s Novo regime
- Structural Violence in Nineteenth Century New Orleans
- Socioeconomic Status of Louisiana’s Port Populations
- Federal Legislation impact Louisiana’s Port Populations
About this book
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.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Sarah Reedy is a bioarchaeologist whose research specializes in understanding how the poor environmental conditions of the Industrial Era of Europe impacted the growth and development, morbidity, and mortality patterns of children. The stressed conditions from this period, such as rapid urbanization, malnutrition, inequality, and increased infectious diseases, negatively impacted many within these populations, but especially those that were most vulnerable and marginalized. Children are often an overlooked subset of skeletal populations within the field of bioarchaeology, leaving much information about their lives misunderstood and largely unknown. Sarah's work attempts to analyze variables such as sex, age, and status and their impacts onchildren’s overall growth and developmental patterns. The use of structural violence as a theoretical framework relates to the marginalization of poor and female children via patriarchal practices during the Industrial Era. She is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at Quinnipiac University, though performed this research as part of her Doctoral Dissertation and while working as a Lecturer at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Bioarchaeology of Structural Violence
Book Subtitle: A Theoretical Framework for Industrial Era Inequality
Editors: Lori A. Tremblay, Sarah Reedy
Series Title: Bioarchaeology and Social Theory
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-46440-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-46439-4Published: 28 August 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-46442-4Published: 28 August 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-46440-0Published: 27 August 2020
Series ISSN: 2567-6776
Series E-ISSN: 2567-6814
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 284
Number of Illustrations: 25 b/w illustrations, 26 illustrations in colour
Topics: Social History, Archaeology, Social Theory