Overview
- Discusses disciplinary boundaries through the engagement of social theories in the interpretations of impairment and disability in the past
- Features research that examines the documentary, iconological, ethnographic, archaeological, and skeletal archives in order to explore the historical, social, and biological causes and consequences of disability
- Explores what it means to be disabled and/or impaired within particular temporal and cultural contexts
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Bioarchaeology and Social Theory (BST)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Theoretical Perspectives on Impairment and Disability
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Ethnohistorical Interpretations: Ability, Disability, and Alternate Ability
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Quantitative Methods in Impairment and Disability: Bioarchaeological Approaches
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Case Studies of Impairment and Disability in the Past
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About this book
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.Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Jennifer L. Muller is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology, Ithaca College, Ithaca, Nw York, USA. She received her PhD from the Department of Anthropology, State University of New York at Buffalo in 2006. Muller’s research embraces the holism of anthropological study, integrating theoretical perspectives and methodologies from the cultural, biological, and archaeological subfields of the discipline. Her research has specifically focused on how discrimination-based inequities impact human biology in African diasporic populations and among the institutionalized poor. Foundational to this research is the understanding that the body is both biological and social, and that the insidious and pervasive attributes of structural violence may assault the body in a multitude of ways. Muller also examines postmortem structural violence; the idea that discriminatory practices continue to harm the poor and marginalized after death. Muller’s dissertation focused on the relationships between traumatic injuries and inequity in the W. Montague Cobb Human Skeletal Collection housed at Howard University in the District of Columbia, USA. Her research on the institutionalized poor has included bioarchaeological and/or historical analysis from New York State poorhouses, including: the Monroe County Poorhouse, Rochester; the Erie County Poorhouse, Buffalo; and the St. Lawrence County Poorhouse, Canton.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Bioarchaeology of Impairment and Disability
Book Subtitle: Theoretical, Ethnohistorical, and Methodological Perspectives
Editors: Jennifer F. Byrnes, Jennifer L. Muller
Series Title: Bioarchaeology and Social Theory
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56949-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-56948-2Published: 11 July 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-86044-2Published: 02 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-56949-9Published: 28 June 2017
Series ISSN: 2567-6776
Series E-ISSN: 2567-6814
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 292
Number of Illustrations: 15 b/w illustrations, 15 illustrations in colour
Topics: Archaeology, Medical Anthropology