Overview
- Only comprehensive book to explain the bioarchaeology of care, covering theoretical foundations and serving as a practical manual
- Outlines a systematic approach for examining the collective and individual agency underlying sophisticated behaviour
- Explains the Index of Care, the computer-based application designed to help the researcher to ‘think through’ the four stages of the bioarchaeology of care
Part of the book series: Bioarchaeology and Social Theory (BST)
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Book Title: Theory and Practice in the Bioarchaeology of Care
Authors: Lorna Tilley
Series Title: Bioarchaeology and Social Theory
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-18860-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-18859-1Published: 11 September 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-36147-5Published: 22 October 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-18860-7Published: 28 August 2015
Series ISSN: 2567-6776
Series E-ISSN: 2567-6814
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 319
Number of Illustrations: 13 b/w illustrations, 31 illustrations in colour
Topics: Archaeology, Anthropology