ISBN:
9783319569499
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xi, 292 Seiten)
Series Statement:
Bioarchaeology and Social Theory
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Byrnes, Jennifer F Bioarchaeology of Impairment and Disability : Theoretical, Ethnohistorical, and Methodological Perspectives
DDC:
300
Keywords:
Medical anthropology
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Abstract:
Foreword -- Contents -- Editors and Contributors -- 1 Mind the Gap: Bridging Disability Studies and Bioarchaeology-An Introduction -- A Brief Introduction to Disability Studies and Theory -- Bioarchaeology and Disability -- Organization of the Volume -- Part I: Theoretical Perspectives on Impairment and Disability -- Part II: Ethnohistorical Interpretations: Ability, Disability, and Alternate Ability -- Part III: Quantitative Methods in Impairment and Disability: Bioarchaeological Approaches -- Part IV: Case Studies of Impairment and Disability in the Past -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Theoretical Perspectives on Impairment and Disability -- 2 Accommodating Critical Disability Studies in Bioarchaeology -- Introduction -- Bioarchaeology: Toward Engaging with Disability Studies -- Models of Disability and Bioarchaeology -- Critical Disability Studies and Bioarchaeology -- The Construction of Impairment -- The Employment of Foucauldian Approaches to Disability -- The Bioarchaeology of Care and Critical Disability Studies -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 3 Consideration of Disability from the Perspective of the Medical Model -- Disability Features -- Individual Differences -- Social Environment -- Narratives from a Physical Therapist -- Summary -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 4 Historiography of Disablement and the South Asian Context: The Case of Shah Daula's Chuhas -- Introduction -- Disability History of the South Asian Context -- Shah Daula's Chuhas as Objects of Disability History -- Of Rational Explanations and Irrational Practices -- 'Cross-Cultural Misidentification' -- Chuhas as Manifestations of Culturally Specific Psychiatric Conditions -- Disability on a Different Model? -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Ethnohistorical Interpretations: Ability, Disability, and Alternate Ability
Abstract:
5 Differently Abled: Africanisms, Disability, and Power in the Age of Transatlantic Slavery -- Introduction -- Literature Review -- Africanizing "Impairment" and "Disability" -- Social Power and Differently Abled Bodyminds in Precolonial West Africa -- New World Echoes of Differently Abled Bodyminds -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 6 Kojo's Dis/Ability: The Interpretation of Spinal Pathology in the Context of an Eighteenth-Century Jamaican Maroon Community -- Introduction -- Theory -- Historical Context -- Somewhat a Majestic Look: The Sketch of a Man -- Historical Sources -- Primary Written History -- Secondary and Derivative Written History -- Maroon Oral Traditions -- Body Differences in Africa and the Diaspora -- Discussion and Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 7 Rendered Unfit: "Defective" Children in the Erie County Poorhouse -- Introduction -- The Establishment of New York State County Poorhouses -- Child-Saving, Hereditary Pauperism, and the Children's Law of 1875 -- Removal of Children from the Poorhouse -- "Unfit" Children -- Savior Children and "Defective" Children -- Informing Bioarchaeological Interpretations of Poorhouse Children -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Quantitative Methods in Impairment and Disability: Bioarchaeological Approaches -- 8 The Bioarchaeology of Back Pain -- Introduction -- Conditions -- Osteoarthritis -- Spondylosis (Vertebral Osteophytosis) -- Disc Herniations -- Spondylolysis and Spondylolisthesis -- Inferring Pain, Impairment, and Disability in Bioarchaeology -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 9 Using Population Health Constructs to Explore Impairment and Disability in Knee Osteoarthritis -- Introduction -- Knee Osteoarthritis -- Impairment in Knee OA -- Theoretical Framework for Disability -- Archaeological Application -- Ontario Iroquoian Ossuary Builders
Abstract:
Nineteenth-twentieth Century Inuit from Igloolik Region of Nunavut -- Population Comparison -- Other Considerations -- Clinical Sample -- Source of Determinants of Health Data -- Conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 10 Quantifying Impairment and Disability in Bioarchaeological Assemblages -- Introduction -- GBD Metrics and Terminology: Disability Weights and Years Lived with Disability -- Applying the DW and YLD Approach in Bioarchaeology -- Challenges to Global Disability Weights -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Appendix -- References -- 11 Injuries, Impairment, and Intersecting Identities: The Poor in Buffalo, NY 1851-1913 -- Introduction -- Brief Background of Impairment and Disability -- The Erie County Poorhouse: Historical Context -- Historical and Bioarchaeological Methods -- Contextualized Results -- Finding the Intersection -- Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Case Studies of Impairment and Disability in the Past -- 12 Impairment, Disability, and Identity in the Middle Woodland Period: Life at the Juncture of Achondroplasia, Pregnancy, and Infection -- Introduction -- EZ 3-7-1: A Case Study -- Context -- Evaluation -- Differential Diagnosis -- Identifying as "Dwarf" and/or "Disabled" -- Prehistoric Dwarfism and Identity -- The Impairment and/or Disability of Dwarfism: The LPA, the WHO, and the ADA -- The Impairment, Disability, and Identity of EZ 3-7-1 -- Her Identity from Contextual Evidence -- Limitations of Major Life Activities -- Disabled and/or Impaired? -- Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 13 Attempting to Distinguish Impairment from Disability in the Bioarchaeological Record: An Example from DeArmond Mound (40RE12) in East Tennessee -- Introduction -- An Archaeological Case Study from East Tennessee -- The DeArmond Site and Burial 50 -- Mortuary Context of Burial 50
Abstract:
Discussion of Burial 50s Impairment and Disability -- Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 14 Anglo-Saxon Concepts of Dis/Ability: Placing Disease at Great Chesterford in Its Wider Context -- Impairment, Disease, or Disability? -- Dis/Ability: Deviance, Liminality, and Mediation Through the Body -- Great Chesterford -- Anglo-Saxon Burial Rites -- Liminality -- Visibility -- Etiology -- Gender and Age: The Links to Liminality -- Bioarchaeology and the Future? -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Index
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