The Anthropology of the Fetus (eBook)

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).

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.

Tracy K. Betsinger is Associate Professor of Anthropology at SUNY Oneonta. She conducts bioarchaeological studies of health and mortuary patterns with medieval/post-medieval European populations and prehistoric populations from the Southeastern United States.

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Forward: 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