Conclusion: Challenging the Narrative

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Abstract

The contributions to this volume explore the boundaries of bioarchaeology, challenging narratives that have influenced our discipline – the role and position of women in the past, how we communicate our results, our engagement with political/social issues, the nature of the relationship between researcher and research subject/object, and the structural inequality in the discipline itself. In their contributions, the authors provide examples of new ways of investigating and discussing the past grounded in a critical and self-reflective perspective.

Keywords

Critical bioarchaeology Social justice Inequality Structural violence Anatomical collections 
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Acknowledgments

I thank Pamela Stone for inviting me to contribute to this volume and to the authors for their thought-provoking work – it is a special privilege to have the opportunity to comment on work authored by people I respect and whose work I find inspirational.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. 1.Department of Anthropology, Wooster Hall 319State University of New York at New PaltzNew PaltzUSA

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