Purposeful Pain The Bioarchaeology of Intentional Suffering
Pain is an evolutionary and adaptive mechanism to prevent harm to an individual. Beyond this, how it is defined, expressed, and borne is dictated culturally. Thus, the study of pain requires a holistic approach crossing cultures, disciplines, and time. Th
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Susan Guise Sheridan Lesley A. Gregoricka Editors
Purposeful Pain The Bioarchaeology of Intentional Suffering
Bioarchaeology and Social Theory
Series editor Debra L. Martin Professor of Anthropology University of Nevada Las Vegas, NV, USA
More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/11976
Susan Guise Sheridan • Lesley A. Gregoricka Editors
Purposeful Pain The Bioarchaeology of Intentional Suffering
Editors Susan Guise Sheridan Department of Anthropology University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, IN, USA
Lesley A. Gregoricka Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work University of South Alabama Mobile, AL, USA
ISSN 2567-6776 ISSN 2567-6814 (electronic) Bioarchaeology and Social Theory ISBN 978-3-030-32180-2 ISBN 978-3-030-32181-9 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32181-9 © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors, and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. This Springer imprint is published by the registered company Springer Nature Switzerland AG The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland
Foreword
This volume will be of great interest to scholars from a number of different disciplines. The focus is on purposeful pain, which is a completely unique approach to thinking about the embodiment of pain that is both self-induced and often culturally sanctioned. While historians have explored this topic, finding case studies in the bioarchaeological record has opened wide and expanded the repertoire of questions that can be asked and answered with richly contextualized bioarchaeological data. Each chapter in this volume takes on a nuanced and heavily theorized approach to interpret empirical data derived from human skeletal remains as well as archaeological, archival, and ethnohistoric sources. What makes this body of work so unique is that the interpretations and understan
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