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Pamela L. Geller - The Bioarchaeology of Socio-Sexual Lives. Queering Common Sense About Sex, Gender, and Sexuality.  - 9783319409931 - V9783319409931
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The Bioarchaeology of Socio-Sexual Lives. Queering Common Sense About Sex, Gender, and Sexuality.

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Description for The Bioarchaeology of Socio-Sexual Lives. Queering Common Sense About Sex, Gender, and Sexuality. Hardback. Series: Bioarchaeology and Social Theory. Num Pages: 253 pages, 6 black & white illustrations, 6 colour illustrations, 13 colour tables, biography. BIC Classification: JFSK; JHM; JMG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 16. Weight in Grams: 549.
This volume uses bioarchaeological remains to examine the complexities and diversity of past socio-sexual lives. This book does not begin with the presumption that certain aspects of sex, gender, and sexuality are universal and longstanding. Rather, the case studies within—extend from Neolithic Europe to pre-Columbian Mesoamerica to the nineteenth-century United States—highlight the importance of culturally and historically contextualizing socio-sexual beliefs and practices.

The Bioarchaeology of Socio-Sexual Lives highlights a major shortcoming in many scholarly and popular presentations of past socio-sexual lives. They reveal little about the ancient or historic group under study and much about Western society’s modern state of heteronormative affairs. To interrogate commonsensical thinking about ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
Number of pages
253
Condition
New
Series
Bioarchaeology and Social Theory
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
Cham, Switzerland
ISBN
9783319409931
SKU
V9783319409931
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About Pamela L. Geller
Pamela Geller is an assistant professor at the University of Miami (Coral Gables, FL) where she teaches in the Department of Anthropology and the Program in Women's and Gender Studies. She is also co-convener of the Queer Studies Research Group, an interdisciplinary research group supported by UM’s Center for the Humanities. She is strongly committed to a study of the ... Read more

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