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Purposeful Pain


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Foreword.- Chapter 1. A Bioarchaeology of Purposeful Pain.- Part 1. No Pain, No Gain: Ideals of Beauty and Success.- Chapter 2. Fashionable but Debilitating Diseases: Tuberculosis Past and Present.- Chapter 3. Bound to Please: The Shaping of Female Beauty, Gender Theory, Structural Violence, and Bioarchaeological Investigations.- Chapter 4. Meaningful Play, Meaningful Pain: Learning the Purpose of Injury in Sport.- Part 2. Rituals of Pain and Practice.- Chapter 5. Pious Pain: Repetitive Motion Disorders from Excessive Genuflection at a Byzantine Jerusalem Monastery.- Chapter 6. Bioarchaeology of Therapeutic Tattoos: The Case of the Iceman.- Chapter 7. Intentionally Modified Teeth Among the Vikings - Was it Painful?.- Chapter 8. "I Thought I Was Going to Die" Examining Experiences of Childbirth Pain Through Bioarchaeological and Ethnographic Perspectives.- Chapter 9. The Purposeful Pain of Drug Addiction: A Biocultural Approach.- Part 3. The Politics of Pain: Power and Social Control.- Chapter 10. The Politics of Pain: Gaining Status and Maintaining Order Through Ritual Combat and Warfare.- Chapter 11. Pain as Power: Pain as a Mechanism for Social Control.- Chapter 12. Binding, Wrapping, Constricting, and Constraining the Head: A Consideration of Cranial Vault Modification and the Pain of Infants.- Chapter 13. Performing Identity and Revealing Structures of Violence Through Purposeful Pain.- Index.


About the Author:

Dr. Susan Guise Sheridan is an Associate Professor at the University of Notre Dame. Shereceived her B.A. and M.A.A. from the University of Maryland-College Park, and her Ph.D. from the University of Colorado-Boulder. She has worked extensively in the southern Levant, as well as the American Southwest, and Sudanese Nubia. She coedited a volume on the Hohokam of Pueblo Grande, published on demography and disease in ancient Nubia, and has spent the last 20 years reconstructing aspects of daily life using paleopathology, bone chemistry, and biomechanics for large commingled collections from Jerusalem, Qumran, southern Jordan, and ancient Palestine. She ran a summer National Science Foundation-Research Experiences for Undergraduates (NSF-REU) program in bioarchaeology for 12 years. Sheridan is also the founder and administrator of the very large and active BioAnth News Network on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.

Dr. Lesley Gregoricka is an Associate Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work at the University of South Alabama. She received her B.A. from the University of Notre Dame and her M.A. and Ph.D. from The Ohio State University. Her research focuses on prehistoric mortuary practices and the biogeochemistry of ancient human skeletal remains to examine changing patterns of mobility and social complexity across Arabia and the Levant. Her publications have appeared in many venues, including the American Journal of Physical Anthropology and the Journal of Archaeological Science, and she recently co-edited a volume entitled Mortuary and Bioarchaeological Perspectives on Bronze Age Arabia with the University Press of Florida. Her work has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the Center for Bioarchaeological Research, and the American Philosophical Society, and the results of her research covered by The New York Times, NPR, National Geographic, and The Atlantic.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9783030321833
  • Publisher: Springer International Publishing
  • Publisher Imprint: Springer
  • Height: 234 mm
  • No of Pages: 271
  • Series Title: Bioarchaeology and Social Theory
  • Sub Title: The Bioarchaeology of Intentional Suffering
  • Width: 156 mm
  • ISBN-10: 3030321835
  • Publisher Date: 18 Jan 2021
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 15 mm
  • Weight: 462 gr


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