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Interests:
Biological Anthropology, paleopathology (violence, trauma,
diet, nutrition, disease), skeletal biology, bioarchaeology,
health of women and children in agricultural communities,
biocultural adaptation to culture change, bone density and
bone disease in contemporary populations, arid environments
and health (Mexico, American Southwest, Southwest Asia,
Northern Africa)
Poor health and disease are, in almost every
manifestation, related to ideology, inequality, and power.
Poor health is often shorthand for dominance, a proxy for
social status, or related to differential access to
resources. By its very nature, it is embedded with meaning
at the level of biology (damage to corporeal bodies and
neurological processes) and culture (producing individual,
household, community, and inter-community reactions). It is
a flashpoint for pain and disability that can be physical,
mental, and collective. Both the causes and consequences of
disease and early death need to be examined from a number of
perspectives to capture the variable and nuanced ways that
it intersects with other behaviors and cultural patterns.
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Selected Publications
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2006
(with Nancy Akins, Brad Crenshaw and Pamela
Stone) Inscribed on the Body, Written in the Bones: The
Consequences of Social Violence at La Plata. In: Multidisciplinary
Approaches to Social Violence in the Prehispanic
Southwest Crown, P. and Nichols, D eds. University
of Arizona Press (In Press)
- 2006
(with Alan Goodman) Health Conditions Before Columbus:
Paleopathology of Native North Americans. In: Health
and Healing in Comparative Perspective, 211-216, ED
Whitaker, ed. Prentice Hall, New Jersey.
- 2005
(with Janet Cope, J. Berryman and Dan Potts) Robusticity
and Osteoarthritis at the Trapeziometacarpal Joint in a
Bronze Age Population from Tell Abraq, UAE.
American Journal of Physical Anthropology
126/4:391-400.
- 2003
(with S. Horowitz) Anthropology and Alternative
Medicine: Orthopedics and the Other. Techniques in
Orthopaedics 18/1:130-137.
- 2002
(with Alan Goodman) Reconstructing Health Profiles from
Skeletal Remains. In: The Backbone of History: Health
and Nutrition in the Western Hemisphere, 11-60,
Steckel RH, Rose JC, eds. England: Cambridge University
Press.
- 2002
(with Alan Goodman) Health Conditions Before Columbus:
Paleopathology of Native North Americans. Western
Journal of Medicine 176/1:65-68
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2001
(with Nancy Akins, Alan Goodman and W. Toll). Harmony
and Discord: Bioarchaeology of the La Plata Valley.
Santa Fe:
Museum of New Mexico Press
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1997
(with David Frayer, co-eds.) Troubled Times: Evidence
for Violence and Warfare in the Past New York:
Gordon and Breach (War and Society Series Volume VI)
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