Overview
- Examines how the bony consequences of violent performance can be a mechanism for identity formation and negotiation
- First volume to offer direct physical evidence for how violence was enacted and understood within different societies
- Includes case studies of the application of poetics theory from Europe, Asia, and Africa
Part of the book series: Bioarchaeology and Social Theory (BST)
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Keywords
- Bioarchaeology of Violence
- Poetics Theory
- Poetics of Violence
- Old World Archaeology
- Bioarchaeology of the Eastern Hemisphere
- Neil Whitehead concept of poetics
- Poetics of Violence in the Early Neolithic
- Mass Killings and their Possible Biocultural Contexts
- Copper Age mass burial assemblage
- Violence in Iron Age Denmark
- Violence in Ancient Egypt
- Performative violence and the formation of social structure
- Skeletal evidence of human sacrifice
- violence during the Neolithic to the Late Iron Age Thailand
- trade and violence Silk Road
About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Anna J. Osterholtz received her PhD from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She has excavated and analyzed skeletal remains from Europe (Croatia, Romania, and Cyprus), the Near East (the UAE, Jordan, and Israel), and the Americas (Mexico, Belize, and the US), focusing on the social role of violent performance and mortuary processing in identity formation and negotiation. She is also a specialist in the analysis of commingled and fragmentary bone assemblages. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Biological Anthropology in the Department of Anthropology and Middle Eastern Cultures at Mississippi State University.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Poetics of Violence in Afroeurasian Bioarchaeology
Editors: Roselyn A. Campbell, Anna J. Osterholtz
Series Title: Bioarchaeology and Social Theory
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-49718-6Due: 29 June 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-49721-6Due: 29 June 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-49719-3Due: 29 June 2024
Series ISSN: 2567-6776
Series E-ISSN: 2567-6814
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 281
Number of Illustrations: 17 b/w illustrations, 33 illustrations in colour