Colonized bodies, worlds transformed : toward a global bioarchaeology of contact and colonialism / edited by Melissa S. Murphy and Haagen D. Klaus ; foreword by Clark Spencer Larsen.

"This book merges bioarchaeology and historical archaeology to examine changes to diet, mortuary practices, and diseases in post-fifteenth century colonialism from a global perspective"--Provided by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Transcending conquest: bioarchaeological perspectives on conquest and culture contact for the twenty-first century / Melissa S. Murphy and Haagen D. Klaus -- Life, death, and mortuary practices after contact and colonialism -- Exhuming differences and continuities after colonialism at Puruchuco-Huaquerones, Peru / Melissa S. Murphy, Maria Fernanda Boza, and Catherine Gaither -- New Kingdom Egyptian colonialism in Nubia at the third cataract: a diachronic examination of sociopolitical transition (1750-650 B.C.) / Michele R. Buzon and Stuart Tyson Smith -- Escaping conquest? A first look at regional cultural and biological variation in postcontact Eten, Peru / Haagen D. Klaus and Rosabella Alvarez-Calderón -- The social structuring of biological stress in contact-era Spanish Florida: a bioarchaeological case -- Study from Santa Catalina de Guale, St. Catherines Island, Georgia / Lauren A. Winkler, Clark Spencer Larsen, Victor D. Thompson, Paul W. Sciulli, Dale L. Hutchinson, David Hurst Thomas, Elliot H. Blair, and Matthew C. Sanger -- Frontiers, colonial entanglements, and diversity -- Living on the edge: Maya identity and skeletal biology on the Spanish frontier / Amanda R. Harvey, Marie Elaine Danforth, and Mark N. Cohen -- Double coloniality in Tierra del Fuego, Argentina: a bioarchaeological and historiographical approach to Selk?nam demographics and health (La Candelaria Mission, late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries) / Ricardo A. Guichón, Romina Casali, Pamela García Laborde, Melisa A. Salerno, and Rocío Guichón -- Impacts of imperial interests on health and economy in the Byzantine Near East / Megan A. Perry -- Imperialism and physiological stress in Rome, first to third centuries A.D. / Kristina Killgrove -- The body and identity under colonialism -- Survival and abandonment of indigenous head-shaping practices in Iberian America after European contact / Vera Tiesler and Pilar Zabala -- A glimpse of the ancient régime in the French colonies: a consideration of ancestry and health at the Moran site (22hr511), Biloxi, Mississippi / Marie Elaine Danforth, Danielle N. Cook, J. Lynn Funkhouser, Barbara T. Hester, and Heather Guzik -- Effects of colonialism from the perspective of craniofacial variation: comparing case studies involving African populations / Isabelle Ribot, Alan G. Morris, and Emily S. Renschler -- Hybridity? change? continuity? survival? biodistance and the identity of colonial burials from Magdalena de Cao Viejo, Chicama Valley, Peru / Alejandra Ortiz, Melissa S. Murphy, Jason Toohey, and Catherine Gaither -- The bioarchaeology of colonialism: past perspectives and future prospects / Christopher M. Stojanowski.

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