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Evaluating evidence in biological anthropology : the strange and the familiar
\"Biological anthropology is a diverse field, with countless research methods and techniques in different subdisciplines. This book takes a critical perspective to the current state of the field, exploring theory and practice in paleoanthropology, bioarchaeology, and ecology. Contributors challenge how evidence is discovered, collected, and interpreted, and explain that researchers gain insights by defamiliarizing themselves from well-known methods and taking a different perspective - \"making the familiar strange.\" The book covers how researchers' biases and assumptions affect the interpretation of topics such as human evolution and population movements; race, health, and disability; bodies and embodiment; and landscapes and ecology. A final chapter includes a critical assessment of new thinking about technology, in addition to the multilayered and complex nature of both research questions and evidence. This is an insightful text for researchers and graduate students in anthropology, biology, ecology, history, and philosophy of science\"-- Provided by publisher.
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The Biocultural Consequences of Contact in Mexico
Examining the long-lasting effects of European
colonization on Mexican populations
The Biocultural Consequences of Contact in Mexico
explores how Mexican populations have been shaped both culturally
and biologically by the arrival of Spanish conquistadors and the
years following the defeat of the Aztec empire in 1521.
Contributors to this volume draw on a diverse set of methods from
archaeology, bioarchaeology, genetics, and history to examine the
response to European colonization, providing evidence for the
resilience of the Mexican people in the face of tumultuous
change.
Essays focus on Central Mexico, Yucatan, and Oaxaca, providing a
cross-regional perspective, and they highlight Mexican scholars'
work and viewpoints. They examine the effects of the
castas system-which the colonizers used to organize
society according to parentage and the social construction of
race-on individuals' and groups' access to power, social mobility,
health, and mate choice. Contributors illuminate the poorly
understood extent that this system-and the national identity of
mestizaje that replaced it-caused inequality and the
structural violence of stress and health disparities, as well as
genetic admixture.
Five hundred years after the Spanish first clashed with Aztec
forces and began to influence modern Mexico, this volume adds to
discussions of colonialism, the reconstruction of biosocial
relationships, and the work of decolonization. Students and
scholars in anthropology and history will gain insights into how
human populations transform and adapt in the wake of major
historical events that result in migration, demographic change, and
social upheaval.
Contributors: Josefina Bautista Martínez |
Alfredo Coppa | Andrea Cucina | Heather J. H. Edgar | Blanca Z.
González-Sobrino | María Teresa Jaén Esquivel | Haagen D. Klaus |
Michaela Lucci | Abigail Meza-Peñaloza | Emily Moes | Corey S.
Ragsdale | Katelyn M. Rusk | Robert C. Schwaller | Julie K. Wesp |
Cathy Willermet
A volume in the series Bioarchaeological Interpretations of the
Human Past: Local, Regional, and Global Perspectives, edited by
Clark Spencer Larsen
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Bioarchaeology of Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica : an interdisciplinary approach
This edited volume presents work from both Mesoamerican-based and U.S.-based researchers who use a combination of cultural ethnohistorical, (bio)archaeological, dental, and chemical data in an interdisciplinary approach to research population history in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica. The goals for such a project are threefold: 1) to encourage more cross-fertilization of work between fields and subfields, in order to more appropriately address large regional questions of population history; 2) to explicitly address the theoretical and methodological challenges and rewards of interdisciplinary work; and 3) to introduce a larger audience to the state of interdisciplinary work in Mesoamerica.
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