The Anthropology of the Fetus -

The Anthropology of the Fetus

Biology, Culture, and Society
Buch | Softcover
316 Seiten
2019
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-78920-501-5 (ISBN)
44,10 inkl. MwSt
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...
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).

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 Kabaciński, 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

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Themenwelt Studium 1. Studienabschnitt (Vorklinik) Histologie / Embryologie
Naturwissenschaften Biologie Humanbiologie
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-78920-501-8 / 1789205018
ISBN-13 978-1-78920-501-5 / 9781789205015
Zustand Neuware
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