The Odd, the Unusual, and the Strange

Tracy K. Betsinger is associate professor of anthropology at SUNY Oneonta. Amy B. Scott is assistant professor of anthropology at the University of New Brunswick. Betsinger and Scott are coeditors of The Anthropology of the Fetus: Biology, Culture, and Society. Anastasia Tsaliki is a forensic and cultural consultant based in London with an expertise in unusual body disposals and social exclusion.

List of Illustrations
Foreword
Deconstructing "Deviant": An Introduction to the History of Atypical Burials and the Importance of Context in the Bioarchaeological Record
1. Bodies Among Fragments: Non-Normative Inhumations among the Preclassic and Classic Period Hohokam in the Tucson Basin
2. Interpreting a Multiple Burial in an Early Ancestral Pueblo Village
3. A Young Man Twice Burned: A Deviant Burial from West-Central Illinois
4. The Odd Man Out in a Pioneer Cemetery at Seccombe Lake Park, San Bernadino, California
5. Defining Non-Normative Practices in a Diverse Funerary Record: Insights from the Caribbean
6. Good, Bad, or Indifferent? A Unique "Deviant" Burial from the Formative Site of Aranjuez-Santa Lucía, South Central Andes
7. The Hunchback, the Contortionist, the Man with the Stolen Identity, and the One Who Will be Born in the Afterlife: Pre-Hispanic Deviant Burials from Huarmey Valley, Peru
8. Friend or Foe? Investigating a Mass Burial at the Templo de la Piedra Segrada at Túcume, Peru
9. What's the Norm? "Irregular" and "Regular" Burial Practices of the Early Iron Age in Central Europe
10. Burial in a Kiln: Transgression and Punishment in Late Antiquity
11. Variation Beyond the Grave: Contextualizing Unusual Burials in Early Medieval Bohemia
12. Good and Bad Death in Early Medieval Times? Theoretical and Methodological Approaches to Non-Normative Burials in Finland in the Eleventh-Thirteenth Centuries ADU
13. Atypical Burials in Early Medieval Poland: A Critical Overview
14. Does Health Define Deviancy? Non-Normative Burials in Post-Medieval Poland
15. The "Vampires" of Lesvos: Detecting and Interpreting Anti-Revenant Ritual in Greece
16. Natural Mummification as a Non-Normative Mortuary Custom of Modern Period Sicily (1600-1800)
17. Out of Range? Non-normative Funerary Practices from the Neolithic to the early Twentieth Century at Çatalhöyük, Turkey
18. Deviant Treatment of the Body as a Mortuary Ritual: A Case from the Middle Jomon Period in Eastern Japan
19. Ancestors, Conflict, and Criminality in Ancient China and Mongolia
20. Dependent Deviance: Castration and Deviant Burial
Afterword
Contributors