Time after time: individuals with multiple fractures and injury recidivists in long eighteenth-century (c. 1666–1837) London

Mant, Madeleine

doi:10.1016/j.ijpp.2018.08.003

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“…and ritual violence on individuals' bodies in varied geographic and temporal contexts (e.g., Knüsel & Smith, 2014;Martin et al, 2012;Redfern, 2016;Smith, 2017;Tung, 2012;Walker, 2001). Violence is "a form of intersectional discrimination" (Kjellström, 2013, p. 239 (Mant, 2016(Mant, , 2019(Mant, , 2020.…”

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“…TC 361, a white Missourian male referred to hereafter as JL, had multiple instances of trauma, with clear evidence of recidivism (Table 2). While it cannot be ascertained exactly when each of JL's fractures occurred, his actively healing rib fractures are clear evidence of recidivism (Mant, 2019). Furthermore, his trauma patterning suggests evidence of interpersonal violence, including his nasal, maxilla, zygomatic arch, ribs, and fifth metacarpal fractures.…”

Section: Framing Intersectionality Analysis With Skeletal Collectionsmentioning

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Intersectionality and trauma analysis in bioarchaeology

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Brickley

2021

American J Phys Anthropol

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Intersectionality, the theory named by Kimberlé Crenshaw, outlines how multiple elements of an individual's social identity overlap to create and preserve societal inequalities and discrimination. Recently bioarchaeology's engagement with intersectionality has become increasingly explicit, as the field recognizes the lived experience of multiple axes of an individual's identity. Evidence of trauma can remain observable in an individual's skeleton for years, making it an ideal subject of study for intersectional analyses in bioarchaeology. Using contrasting case studies of two individuals who died in hospitals and were unclaimed after death, we explore the theoretical and methodological application of intersectionality to investigations of accidental and interpersonal trauma. Differences in identities and structural inequalities affect bone quality and health outcomes. As we demonstrate, a broken bone is the intersecting result of biological, histomorphological, sociocultural, and behavioral factors. This approach allows for a better acknowledgement of the inherent complexity of past lives, elevating and amplifying previously silenced voices. In this way, intersectionality in bioarchaeology demands social justice.

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Section: Bioarchaeology and Intersectionalitymentioning

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Intersectionality and trauma analysis in bioarchaeology

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Brickley

2021

American J Phys Anthropol

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“…As such, the categorisation of this individual as an injury recidivist is plausible (Mant, 2019). The use of the term is sometimes equivocal, with different operational definitions in clinical and bioarchaeological research (Judd, 2017; Redfern, Judd, & DeWitte, 2017), but it is a powerful concept that offers a nuanced understanding of the intricate relationships between trauma, individual experiences and social contexts (de la Cova, 2017; Grauer & Buikstra, 2019; Redfern et al, 2017).…”

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“…Their incidence is greater in males, with a peak between 10 and 40 years old, and can be produced by road traffic accidents, falling objects, assault, falls and even trivial activities, such as jar opening (Singh, Jain, & Mruthyunjaya, 2011). Phalangeal fractures are also relatively common in archaeological contexts, and fractures of the hand are frequently associated with other injuries (Kilgore, Jurmain, & Van Gerven, 1997; Mant, 2019; Redfern, 2010).…”

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“…In this work, we evaluated the functional and social consequences of several skeletal injuries suffered by a male individual from the Chapel of the Holy Spirit in Bucelas (Lisbon, Portugal). The interpretative challenges posed by the combination of different types of trauma and its likely functional impacts—at the individual and societal levels—were addressed through the perspectives of injury recidivism as defined in bioarcheology (Judd, 2002, 2017; Mant, 2019) and the bioarcheology of care (Tilley, 2015b; Tilley & Oxenham, 2011; Tilley & Schrenk, 2017).…”

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Interpreting injury recidivism in a rural post‐medieval male individual from Bucelas, Portugal

Antunes‐Ferreira

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2020

Intl J of Osteoarchaeology

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Injury recidivism studies assess the lived experience of individuals who endure multiple traumatic incidents, conveying a nuanced contextualization of individual suffering within a reticulate of social and cultural processes. During a recent archaeological excavation, a skeleton of a middle‐aged male dating to the 17th–18th centuries AD was excavated in the churchyard of the Chapel of the Holy Spirit in Bucelas (Portugal). This individual exhibited a mixture of healed and healing fractures that prompted poor functional long‐term outcomes and an increase in the risk of death. Macroscopic and medical imaging (computerized tomography) analyses revealed lesions in the right shoulder, right and left ribs, fifth right proximal phalanx and right distal femur. Fracture complications include myositis ossificans and chronic osteomyelitis. The results are interpreted in the broader sociocultural circumstances of Bucelas during the early modern period, in order to investigate the causes of this individual's accumulated trauma and the possibility of health‐related care associated with it.

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Toward a bioarchaeology of urbanization: Demography, health, and behavior in cities in the past

Betsinger

DeWitte

2021

American J Phys Anthropol

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Urbanization is one of the most important settlement shifts in human history and has been the focus of research within bioarchaeology for decades. However, there have been limited attempts to synthesize the results of these studies in order to gain a broader perspective on whether or how urbanization affects the biology, demography, and behavior of humans, and how these potential effects are embodied in the human skeleton. This paper outlines how bioarchaeology is well-suited to examine urbanization in the past, and we provide an overview and examples of three main ways in which urbanization is studied in bioarchaeological research: comparison of (often contemporaneous) urban and rural sites, synchronic studies of the variation that exists within and between urban sites, and investigations of changes that occur within urban sites over time. Studies of urbanization, both within bioarchaeology and in other fields of study, face a number of limitations, including a lack of a consensus regarding what urban and urbanization mean, the assumed dichotomous nature of urban versus rural settlements, the supposition that urbanization is universally bad for people, and the assumption (at least in practice) of homogeneity within urban and rural populations. Bioarchaeologists can address these limitations by utilizing a wide array of data and methods, and the studies described here collectively demonstrate the complex, nuanced, and highly variable effects of urbanization.

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Time after time: individuals with multiple fractures and injury recidivists in long eighteenth-century (c. 1666–1837) London

Cited by 14 publications

References 46 publications

Intersectionality and trauma analysis in bioarchaeology

Intersectionality and trauma analysis in bioarchaeology

Interpreting injury recidivism in a rural post‐medieval male individual from Bucelas, Portugal

Toward a bioarchaeology of urbanization: Demography, health, and behavior in cities in the past

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