Bioarchaeology of Impairment and Disability: Theoretical, Ethnohistorical, and Methodological Perspectives

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Mind the Gap: Bridging Disability Studies and Bioarchaeology—An Introduction....Pages 1-15
Front Matter....Pages 17-17
Accommodating Critical Disability Studies in Bioarchaeology....Pages 19-38
Consideration of Disability from the Perspective of the Medical Model....Pages 39-55
Historiography of Disablement and the South Asian Context: The Case of Shah Daula’s Chuhas....Pages 57-74
Front Matter....Pages 75-75
Differently Abled: Africanisms, Disability, and Power in the Age of Transatlantic Slavery....Pages 77-94
Kojo’s Dis/Ability: The Interpretation of Spinal Pathology in the Context of an Eighteenth-Century Jamaican Maroon Community....Pages 95-117
Rendered Unfit: “Defective” Children in the Erie County Poorhouse....Pages 119-138
Front Matter....Pages 139-139
The Bioarchaeology of Back Pain....Pages 141-157
Using Population Health Constructs to Explore Impairment and Disability in Knee Osteoarthritis....Pages 159-182
Quantifying Impairment and Disability in Bioarchaeological Assemblages....Pages 183-200
Injuries, Impairment, and Intersecting Identities: The Poor in Buffalo, NY 1851–1913....Pages 201-222
Front Matter....Pages 223-223
Impairment, Disability, and Identity in the Middle Woodland Period: Life at the Juncture of Achondroplasia, Pregnancy, and Infection....Pages 225-248
Attempting to Distinguish Impairment from Disability in the Bioarchaeological Record: An Example from DeArmond Mound (40RE12) in East Tennessee....Pages 249-267
Anglo-Saxon Concepts of Dis/Ability: Placing Disease at Great Chesterford in Its Wider Context....Pages 269-289
Back Matter....Pages 291-292