The Odd, the Unusual, and the Strange: Bioarchaeological Explorations of Atypical Burials

ISBN-13: 9781683401032 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 448 str.

Tracy K. Betsinger; Amy B. Scott; Anastasia Tsaliki

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• List of Illustrations
• Foreword
• Deconstructing "Deviant": An Introduction to the History of Atypical Burials and the Importance of Context in the Bioarchaeological Record
• 1. Bodies Among Fragments: Non-Normative Inhumations among the Preclassic and Classic Period Hohokam in the Tucson Basin
• 2. Interpreting a Multiple Burial in an Early Ancestral Pueblo Village
• 3. A Young Man Twice Burned: A Deviant Burial from West-Central Illinois
• 4. The Odd Man Out in a Pioneer Cemetery at Seccombe Lake Park, San Bernadino, California
• 5. Defining Non-Normative Practices in a Diverse Funerary Record: Insights from the Caribbean
• 6. Good, Bad, or Indifferent? A Unique "Deviant" Burial from the Formative Site of Aranjuez-Santa Lucía, South Central Andes
• 7. The Hunchback, the Contortionist, the Man with the Stolen Identity, and the One Who Will be Born in the Afterlife: Pre-Hispanic Deviant Burials from Huarmey Valley, Peru
• 8. Friend or Foe? Investigating a Mass Burial at the Templo de la Piedra Segrada at Túcume, Peru
• 9. What's the Norm? "Irregular" and "Regular" Burial Practices of the Early Iron Age in Central Europe
• 10. Burial in a Kiln: Transgression and Punishment in Late Antiquity
• 11. Variation Beyond the Grave: Contextualizing Unusual Burials in Early Medieval Bohemia
• 12. Good and Bad Death in Early Medieval Times? Theoretical and Methodological Approaches to Non-Normative Burials in Finland in the Eleventh-Thirteenth Centuries ADU
• 13. Atypical Burials in Early Medieval Poland: A Critical Overview
• 14. Does Health Define Deviancy? Non-Normative Burials in Post-Medieval Poland
• 15. The "Vampires" of Lesvos: Detecting and Interpreting Anti-Revenant Ritual in Greece
• 16. Natural Mummification as a Non-Normative Mortuary Custom of Modern Period Sicily (1600-1800)
• 17. Out of Range? Non-normative Funerary Practices from the Neolithic to the early Twentieth Century at Çatalhöyük, Turkey
• 18. Deviant Treatment of the Body as a Mortuary Ritual: A Case from the Middle Jomon Period in Eastern Japan
• 19. Ancestors, Conflict, and Criminality in Ancient China and Mongolia
• 20. Dependent Deviance: Castration and Deviant Burial
• Afterword
• Contributors