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International Journal of Historical Archaeology - Free to Access in March: Health, Well-Being, and Ability in Archaeology Special Issue

The International Journal of Historical Archaeology's newest issue "Health, Well-Being, and Ability in Archaeology" is free to access in March.

From the introduction, by the issue's guest editors Stacey L. Camp, Jodi A. Barnes, Sarah Surface-Evans:

"This thematic volume explores how health, well-being, and ability are constructed in the past and in the present. The volume’s authors undo and question deeply ingrained assumptions about what constitutes a “normative” body. They do so by not only looking at how bodies have been medicalized and envisioned in the past, but also how our own profession and discipline discriminates against certain types of bodies in the present."

The Table of Contents shows that the editors have collected an exceptional diversity of relevant papers on the topic. Articles cover issues like invisible disability, writing and well-being during the pandemic, excavating pink artifacts in the year 2167 (not a typo!), and many, many more. We encourage you to check out the articles below:

  1. "Introduction: Health, Well-Being, and Ability in Archaeology" by Stacey L. Camp, Jodi A. Barnes, and Sarah Surface-Evans

  2. "The Invisibly Disabled Archaeologist" by Laura Heath-Stout 

  3. "Archaeology of the Color Pink" by Kimberly J. Wooten

  4. “'Not Unmindful of the Unfortunate': Finding the Forgotten through Archaeology at the Orange Valley Hospital for the Enslaved" by Richard F. Veit, Nicola Kelly, Sean McHugh, and Timothy Dinsmore 

  5. "Tonics, Bitters, and Other Curatives: An Archaeology of Medicalization at Hollywood Plantation" by Jodi A. Barnes

  6. "Exploring Well-Being at Three Great Lakes Lighthouses" by Sarah Surface-Evans

  7. "Soothing the Self: Medicine Advertisement and the Cult of Domesticity in Nineteenth-Century Springfield, Illinois" by Emma Verstraete

  8. "Healer’s Choice: Gender, Self-Care, and Women’s Wellness Products in an Appalachian Coal Town" by Zada Komara

  9. "All the Aids that Nature Can Afford: Horticulture, Healing, and Moral Reform in a Gilded Age Hospital" by Linnea Kuglitsch

  10. "Archaeology, Disability, Healthcare, and the Weimar Joint Sanatorium for Tuberculosis" by Alyssa Rose Scott

  11. "The Paths They Wore: Shoes on Feet at the Syracuse State School" by Maria Smith

  12. "Reflections on Writing about Health and Well-Being during the COVID-19 Pandemic" by Stacey L. Camp, Laura Heath-Stout, Kimberly Wooten, Jodi A. Barnes, Sarah Surface-Evans, Zada Komara, and Alyssa R. Scott.

  13. "Imagining Archaeologies without Ableism" by Laurie A. Wilkie



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