Human Behavioral Ecology Theory -- Chapter 3. Theories on Society and Inequality -- Chapter 4. Gender and Identity Theory -- Chapter 5. Violence Theory -- Chapter 6. Colonialism Theory -- Chapter 7. Practice Theory and Human Experience -- Chapter 8. Future Directions

Summary Bioarchaeology has relied on Darwinian perspectives and biocultural models to communicate information about the lives of past peoples. This book demonstrates how further theoretical expansion's thoughtful engagement with critical social theorizing's an contribute insightful and more ethical outcomes. To do so, it focuses on social theoretical concepts of pertinence to bioarchaeological studies: habitus, the normal, intersectionality, necropolitics, and bioethos. These concepts can deepen study of plasticity, disease, gender, violence, and race and ethnicity, as well as advance the field's decolonization efforts. This book also works to overcome the challenges presented by dense social theorizing, which has paid little attention to real bodies. It historicizes, explains, and adapts concepts, as well as discusses archaeological, historic, and contemporary case studies from around the world. Theorizing Bioarchaeology is intended for individuals who may have initially dismissed social theorizing as postmodern but now acknowledge this characterization as oversimplified. It is for readers who foster curiosity about bioarchaeology's contradictions and common sense. The ideas contained in these pages may also be of use to students who know that it is naive at best and myopic at worst to presume data derived from bodies speak for themselves

Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index

Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed July 13, 2021)

Subject Human remains (Archaeology) -- Philosophy

Form Electronic book

ISBN 9783030707040

3030707040

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