Bioarchaeologists Speak Out Book by Jane E. Buikstra
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1: Bioarchaeologists Speak Out: An Introduction.- 2: Knowing Your Audience: Reactions to the Human Body, Dead and Undead.- 3: Bioarchaeological Evidence for Prehistoric Violence: Use and Misuse in the Popular Media.- 4: Bridging the Precontact and Postcontact Divide in Eastern North America: Prior Conditions Set the Stage for Historic-Period Outcomes.- 5: Misconceptions about the Bioarchaeology of Plague.- 6: Changing The Climate: Bioarchaeology Responds to Deterministic Thinking about Human-Environmental Interactions in the Past.- 7: Stone agers in the Fast-Lane? How bioarchaeologists can address the Paleo Diet myth.- 8: Ancient Migrations: Biodistance, genetics, and the persistence of typological thinking.- 9: Opening up the family tree: promoting more diverse and inclusive studies of family, kinship, and relatedness in Bioarchaeology.- 10: The Fallacy of the Transgender Skeleton.- 11: The Body-as-Evidence Paradigm in Domestic and International Forensic Anthropology.- 12: Contributions of Mummy Science to Public Perception of the Past.- 13: Writing Bioarchaeological Stories to Right Past Wrongs.- 14: Bioarchaeology and the Media: Anthropology SciComm in a Post-Truth Landscape.

About the Author: Jane E. Buikstra is Regents' Professor of Bioarchaeology and Founding Director, Center for Bioarchaeological Research in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University. Professor Buikstra was elected to the National Academy of Sciences (1987), and she is past president of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, the American Anthropological Association and the Paleopathology Association. She is also president of the Center for American Archeology. Dr. Buikstra has received the Pomerance Award for Scientific Contributions to Archaeology by the Archaeological Institute of America (2005), the T. Dale Stewart Award by the American Academy of Forensic Sciences (2008), the Charles R. Darwin Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Association of Physical Anthropologists (2008), the Eve Cockburn Award for Service from the Paleopathology Association (2011), an honorary Doctor of Science Degree from Durham University (UK) ( 2014), and The Lloyd Cotsen Prize for Lifetime Achievement in World Archaeology (2016).
Dr. Buikstra defined the discipline of bioarchaeology, an international field that enriches archaeological knowledge of past peoples through scientific study of their remains and archaeological/historical contexts. Her research regions span the Americas and includes the Eastern Mediterranean. She has published more than 20 books and 200 articles/chapters; she has mentored more than 50 doctoral students. Professor Buikstra was the inaugural editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Paleopathology. Among her current research projects, she is investigating the evolutionary history of ancient tuberculosis in the Americas based on archaeologically-recovered pathogen DNA.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9783319930114
  • Publisher: Springer
  • Publisher Imprint: Springer
  • Height: 234 mm
  • No of Pages: 334
  • Series Title: Bioarchaeology and Social Theory
  • Sub Title: Deep Time Perspectives on Contemporary Issues
  • Width: 156 mm
  • ISBN-10: 3319930117
  • Publisher Date: 19 Sep 2018
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 21 mm
  • Weight: 716 gr


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