Draws from recent and continuing field research on an important, relevant, and challenging topic. Brings together perspectives from across the four fields of anthropology. Written clearly and accessibly to engage non-specialists in archaeology, bioarchaeology, biological anthropology, and cultural anthropology.
Draws from recent and continuing field research on an important, relevant, and challenging topic. Brings together perspectives from across the four fields of anthropology. Written clearly and accessibly to engage non-specialists in archaeology, bioarchaeology, biological anthropology, and cultural anthropology.
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.
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Illustrations Acknowledgements Foreword: How/Shall We Consider the Fetus? Rayna Rapp Introduction: Conceiving the Anthropology of the Fetus: An Introduction Sallie Han, Tracy K. Betsinger, and Amy B. Scott PART I: THE FETUS IN BIOSOCIAL PERSPECTIVE Chapter 1. The Borderless Fetus: Temporal Complexity of the Lived Fetal Experience Julienne Rutherford Chapter 2. The Biology of the Fetal Period: Interpreting Life from Fetal Skeletal Remains Kathleen Ann Satterlee Blake Chapter 3. Pregnant with Ideas: Concepts of the Fetus in the Twenty-First Century United States Sallie Han PART II: FINDING FETUSES IN THE PAST: ARCHAEOLOGY AND BIOARCHAEOLOGY Chapter 4. The Bioarchaeology of Fetuses Siân E. Halcrow, Nancy Tayles, and Gail E. Elliott Chapter 5. Fetal Paleopathology: An Impossible Discipline? Mary E. Lewis Chapter 6. The Neolithic Infant Cemetery at Gebel Ramlah in Egypt's Western Desert Jacek Kabacinski, Agnieszka Czekaj-Zastawny, and Joel D. Irish Chapter 7. Excavating Identity: Burial Context and Fetal Identity in Post-Medieval Poland Amy B. Scott and Tracy K. Betsinger PART III: THE ONCE AND FUTURE FETUS: SOCIOCULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY Chapter 8. Waiting: The Redemption of Frozen Embryos through Embryo Adoption and Stem Cell Research in the United States Risa D. Cromer Chapter 9. Deploying the Fetus: Constructing Pregnancy and Abortion in Morocco Jessica Marie Newman Chapter 10. Beyond Life Itself: The Embedded Fetuses of Russian Orthodox Anti-Abortion Activism Sonja Luehrmann Chapter 11. The "Sound" of Life: Or How Should We Hear a Fetal "Voice"? Rebecca Howes-Mischel Conclusion Tracy K. Betsinger, Amy B. Scott, and Sallie Han Glossary Index
Illustrations Acknowledgements Foreword: How/Shall We Consider the Fetus? Rayna Rapp Introduction: Conceiving the Anthropology of the Fetus: An Introduction Sallie Han, Tracy K. Betsinger, and Amy B. Scott PART I: THE FETUS IN BIOSOCIAL PERSPECTIVE Chapter 1. The Borderless Fetus: Temporal Complexity of the Lived Fetal Experience Julienne Rutherford Chapter 2. The Biology of the Fetal Period: Interpreting Life from Fetal Skeletal Remains Kathleen Ann Satterlee Blake Chapter 3. Pregnant with Ideas: Concepts of the Fetus in the Twenty-First Century United States Sallie Han PART II: FINDING FETUSES IN THE PAST: ARCHAEOLOGY AND BIOARCHAEOLOGY Chapter 4. The Bioarchaeology of Fetuses Siân E. Halcrow, Nancy Tayles, and Gail E. Elliott Chapter 5. Fetal Paleopathology: An Impossible Discipline? Mary E. Lewis Chapter 6. The Neolithic Infant Cemetery at Gebel Ramlah in Egypt's Western Desert Jacek Kabacinski, Agnieszka Czekaj-Zastawny, and Joel D. Irish Chapter 7. Excavating Identity: Burial Context and Fetal Identity in Post-Medieval Poland Amy B. Scott and Tracy K. Betsinger PART III: THE ONCE AND FUTURE FETUS: SOCIOCULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY Chapter 8. Waiting: The Redemption of Frozen Embryos through Embryo Adoption and Stem Cell Research in the United States Risa D. Cromer Chapter 9. Deploying the Fetus: Constructing Pregnancy and Abortion in Morocco Jessica Marie Newman Chapter 10. Beyond Life Itself: The Embedded Fetuses of Russian Orthodox Anti-Abortion Activism Sonja Luehrmann Chapter 11. The "Sound" of Life: Or How Should We Hear a Fetal "Voice"? Rebecca Howes-Mischel Conclusion Tracy K. Betsinger, Amy B. Scott, and Sallie Han Glossary Index
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