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Abstract
As a biological, cultural, and social entity, the human fetus is a multifaceted subject which calls for equally diverse perspectives to fully understand. Anthropology of the Fetus seeks to achieve this by bringing together specialists in biological anthropology, archaeology, and cultural anthropology. Contributors draw on research in prehistoric, historic, and contemporary sites in Europe, Asia, North Africa, and North America to explore the biological and cultural phenomenon of the fetus, raising methodological and theoretical concerns with the ultimate goal of developing a holistic anthropology of the fetus.
Sallie Han is Associate Professor of Anthropology at SUNY Oneonta, and past chair of the Council on Anthropology and Reproduction. She is the author of Pregnancy in Practice: Expectation and Experience in the Contemporary US (Berghahn Books, 2013).
Tracy K. Betsinger is Associate Professor of Anthropology at SUNY Oneonta. She conducts bioarchaeological studies of health and mortuary patterns with medieval/post-medieval European populations and prehistoric populations from the Southeastern United States.
“This is an outstanding collection of articles, all based on original research, giving the volume a fresh feel.” · Eugenia Georges, Rice University
Amy B. Scott is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of New Brunswick. Her research interests include biochemical analyses of health and stress, skeletal growth and development, and mortuary burial patterns in medieval and post-medieval Europe and 18th century Atlantic Canada.
Table of Contents
Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
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Half Title | i | ||
THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF THE FETUS | iii | ||
Contents | vii | ||
Illustrations | ix | ||
Acknowledgments | xi | ||
Foreword: How/Shall We Consider the Fetus? | xii | ||
Introduction — Conceiving the Anthropology of the Fetus: An Introduction | 1 | ||
Part I — The Fetus in Biosocial Perspective | 13 | ||
Chapter 1 — The Borderless Fetus: Temporal Complexity of the Lived Fetal Experience | 15 | ||
Chapter 2 — The Biology of the Fetal Period: Interpreting Life from Fetal Skeletal Remains | 34 | ||
Chapter 3 — Pregnant with Ideas: Concepts of the Fetus in the Twenty-First-Century United States | 59 | ||
Part II — Finding Fetuses in the Past: Archaeology and Bioarchaeology | 81 | ||
Chapter 4 — The Bioarchaeology of Fetuses | 83 | ||
Chapter 5 — Fetal Paleopathology: An Impossible Discipline? | 112 | ||
Chapter 6 — The Neolithic Infant Cemetery at Gebel Ramlah in Egypt's Western Desert | 132 | ||
Chapter 7 — Excavating Identity: Burial Context and Fetal Identity in Postmedieval Poland | 146 | ||
Part III — The Once and Future Fetus: Sociocultural Anthropology | 169 | ||
Chapter 8 — Waiting: The Redemption of Frozen Embryos through Embryo Adoption and Stem Cell Research in the United States | 171 | ||
Chapter 9 — Deploying the Fetus: Constructing Pregnancy and Abortion in Morocco | 200 | ||
Chapter 10 — Beyond Life Itself: The Embedded Fetuses of Russian Orthodox Anti-Abortion Activism | 227 | ||
Chapter 11 — The \"Sound\" of Life: Or, How Should We Hear a Fetal \"Voice\"? | 252 | ||
Conclusion | 276 | ||
Glossary | 279 | ||
Index | 284 |