The Poetics of Violence in Afroeurasian Bioarchaeology

Name: The Poetics of Violence in Afroeurasian Bioarchaeology
Brand: Springer
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By Campbell, Roselyn A.

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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.

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Binding:: Paperback
Number of Pages:: 304
Release Date:: 2025-06-24
Publication Date:: 2025-06-24
Publisher:: Springer
Languages:: Original: English
ISBN10:: 303149721X
ISBN13:: 9783031497216
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:: [email protected]
Weight:: 464 g
Height:: 155 cm
Width:: 235 cm
Thickness:: 17 cm

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