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ABOUT THE BOOK

This volume features bioarchaeological research that interrogates the human skeleton in concert with material culture, ethnographic data and archival research. This approach provides examples of how these intersections of inquiry can be used to consider the larger social and political contexts in which people lived and the manner in which they died.

Bioarchaeologists are in a unique position to develop rich interpretations of the lived experiences of skeletonized individuals. Using their skills in multiple contexts, bioarchaeologists are also situated to consider the ethical nature and inherent humanity of the research collections that have been used because they represent deceased for whom there are records identifying them.

These collections have been the basis for generating basic information regarding the human skeletal transcript. Ironically though, these collections themselves have not been studied with the same degree of understanding and interpretation that is applied to archaeological collections.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. Introduction

   • Pamela K. Stone

   Pages 1-8

2. Anatomical (Medical) Collections

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-9

      
      

   2. “Whatever Was Once Associated with him, Continues to Bear his Stamp”: Articulating and Dissecting George S. Huntington and His Anatomical Collection

      • Aja Lans

      Pages 11-26

   3. Anatomical Collections as the Anthropological Other: Some Considerations

      • Rachel Watkins

      Pages 27-47

   4. More Than the Sum Total of Their Parts: Restoring Identity by Recombining a Skeletal Collection with Its Texts

      • Adam Netzer Zimmer

      Pages 49-69

   5. At the Intersections of Race, Poverty, Gender, and Science: A Museum Mortuary for Twentieth Century Fetuses and Infants

      • Jennifer L. Muller, Margaret S. Butler

      Pages 71-88

   6. Recovering the Lived Body from Bodies of Evidence: Interrogation of Diagnostic Criteria and Parameters for Disease Ecology Reconstructed from Skeletons Within Anatomical and Medical Anatomical Collections

      • Molly K. Zuckerman

      Pages 89-107

3. Archaeological Collections

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 109-109

      
      

   2. Lives Lost: What Burial Vault Studies Reveal About Eighteenth-Century Identities

      • Douglas W. Owsley, Karin S. Bruwelheide, Kathryn G. Barca, Susan K. Reidy, Raquel E. Fleskes

      Pages 111-145

   3. ‘A Mass of Crooked Alphabets’: The Construction and Othering of Working Class Bodies in Industrial England

      • Rebecca Gowland

      Pages 147-163

   4. From Womb to Tomb? Disrupting the Narrative of the Reproductive Female Body

      • Pamela K. Stone

      Pages 165-189

   5. Mother, Laborer, Captive, and Leader: Reassessing the Various Roles that Females Held Among the Ancestral Pueblo in the American Southwest

      • Ryan Harrod, Pamela K. Stone

      Pages 191-212

   6. A Skull’s Tale: From Middle Bronze Age Subject to Teaching Collection “Object”

      • Madison Long, Alexis T. Boutin

      Pages 213-230

   7. Conclusion: Challenging the Narrative

      • Kenneth C. Nystrom

      Pages 231-242

4. Back Matter

   Pages 243-248