The Poetics of Violence in Afroeurasian Bioarchaeology (eBook)

Roselyn A. Campbell, Anna J. Osterholtz (Herausgeber)

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2024 | 1. Auflage
283 Seiten
Springer-Verlag
978-3-031-49719-3 (ISBN)

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This volume explores violence in bioarchaeological case studies from various cultures, geographic regions, and time periods throughout the Eastern Hemisphere through the lens of Neil Whitehead's concept of poetics. It emphasizes the role and power of performance and ritual in violent acts, and how different types of violence are used within societies. Whitehead’s poetics of violence model has primarily been applied to Western Hemisphere assemblages and indigenous groups, and this is the first volume dedicated to the application of this theoretical model to Europe, Asia, and Africa.

Developed from a symposium organized at the American Association of Physical Anthropologists annual meeting in 2018, this volume keeps a tight focus on the direct link between physical evidence for violence in human remains and the contextualized interpretations of how that violence may have functioned within an individual’s society. This type of theoretical interpretation, which treats violence as ameaningful act firmly embedded within its cultural context, rather than as an aberration, is rarely applied to archaeological assemblages and human remains from the Eastern Hemisphere. This is the first volume to offer direct physical evidence for how violence was enacted and understood within different societies in the past. This volume aims to make these rigorous theoretical studies available to students and professionals in archaeology, anthropology, and bioarchaeology, and to provide a model for other researchers to interpret evidence of violence in human remains from archaeological contexts.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 22.6.2024
• Reihe/Serie: Bioarchaeology and Social Theory
• Zusatzinfo: XVII, 283 p. 50 illus., 33 illus. in color.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
• Schlagworte: Bioarchaeology of the Eastern Hemisphere • Bioarchaeology of Violence • Copper Age mass burial assemblage • Mass Killings and their Possible Biocultural Contexts • Neil Whitehead concept of poetics • Old World Archaeology • Performative violence and the formation of social structure • Poetics of Violence • Poetics of Violence in the Early Neolithic • Poetics Theory • Skeletal evidence of human sacrifice • trade and violence Silk Road • violence during the Neolithic to the Late Iron Age Thailand • Violence in Ancient Egypt • Violence in Iron Age Denmark
• ISBN-10: 3-031-49719-8 / 3031497198
• ISBN-13: 978-3-031-49719-3 / 9783031497193