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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      January 2017
      January 2017
      ISBN:
      9781139683531
      9781107073548
      9781107423145
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781139683531
      Dimensions:
      (247 x 174 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.84kg, 350 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (244 x 170 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.76kg, 352 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Physical Anthropology, Life Sciences, Biological Anthropology and Primatology, Anthropology
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology (75)
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    Subjects:
    Physical Anthropology, Life Sciences, Biological Anthropology and Primatology, Anthropology
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology (75)
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    The lives of kings, poets, authors, criminals and celebrities are a perpetual fascination in the media and popular culture, and for decades anthropologists and other scientists have participated in 'post-mortem dissections' of the lives of historical figures. In this field of biohistory, researchers have identified and analyzed these figures' bodies using technologies such as DNA fingerprinting, biochemical assays, and skeletal biology. This book brings together biohistorical case studies for the first time, and considers the role of the anthropologist in the writing of historical narratives surrounding the deceased. Contributors theorize biohistory with respect to the sociology of the body, examining the ethical implications of biohistorical work and the diversity of social theoretical perspectives that researchers' work may relate to. The volume defines scales of biohistorical engagement, providing readers with a critical sense of scale and the different paths to 'historical notoriety' that can emerge with respect to human remains.

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    '… stimulating and expertly crafted … this volume is pathbreaking in several respects, not the least of which is its careful and provocative theoretical synthesis between bioarcheology and forensic anthropology. It will for years to come serve as a benchmark for these fields and like-minded biohistorical studies, stimulating further advances in theory building and anthropological problem-solving along with a better grasp of the elaborate relationships between past people and ourselves.'

    Haagen D. Klaus Source: The Quarterly Review of Biology

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