Healing (Other Keyword)
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The concept of healing—in any time period—has received relatively little attention in Irish archaeology. While bioarchaeologists have examined ailments and injuries in prehistoric and historic Irish populations, discussion and understandings of how, why, and where people sought treatment, and which treatments were deemed successful, remain elusive. This paper will draw on Gesler’s (1992) concept of therapeutic landscapes, most commonly utilized in health geography, in order to examine healing...
Resurrecting Piercing: Experimental Archaeology at a Global Scale (2023)
This is an abstract from the "Body Modification: Examples and Explanations" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Across continents, material evidence of body piercing jewelry abounds in the archaeological record. However, the varying procedures and processes of piercing, healing, and stretching these wounds for adornment remains unfamiliar to most archaeologists. This PowerPoint presentation discusses the early self-experimentations that led to the...
The social politics of health and healing: archaeological approaches to social meanings and practices of illness and well-being. (2016)
Colonial regimes of knowledge and practice and the attendant maintenance of biological, raced, class-based, and gendered difference have remained central concerns for social historians, anthropologists, and archaeologists. Within this milieu of colonial studies, social histories of Western medicine have increasingly interrogated the connections between biological science and racial and gendered difference. Social constructionist approaches to biomedicine provide a useful groundwork for...