...Chapter 1 provides a broad theoretical, historical, and ethnographic context to the research, and an overview of the major research questions addressed in the book. Topics such as the approach to the structural violence of everyday life in the twentieth century, the relationship between migrants...

... that group-targeted structural violence resulting in mass death may also be defined as a type of massacre is then considered. Finally, contemporary examples of massacres are discussed in order to better understand the processes involved in this form of violence. Bioarchaeology Biological anthropology...

... Aztec Ruins Chaco Canyon Colorado Plateau La Plata site Mesa Verde Region Argentine war Kluckhohn Florence Rockwood Strodtbeck Fred L Structural violence Skeletal remains Mortuary practices Bone modification Cannibalism Ancestor worship Violence has played an essential role in human social...

...The act of simply noting the presence or absence of skeletal trauma is not enough; bioarchaeologists need to expand and take more into consideration as violence involves much more than trauma. As Haagen D. Klaus discusses in this chapter, structural violence is disparity related to health...

... Florida Nairne Thomas Slaves Children and adolescents abduction of Caddoans Spiro site Okla Dickson Mounds Ill Green Corn ceremonies Hall Robert Jondro Mound Mesoamerica Norris Farms Sacrificed Foursomes and Green Corn Ceremonialism Hall Captivity Social inequality Ideology Structural...

... to overcome the structural violence of the occupation in both Israeli and Palestinian societies, reconfiguration efforts aimed for what Galtung calls structural peace. Alternative Information Center AIC awareness raising Bringing Peace Together BPT fragmentation institution building Jewish settlements...

...This chapter discusses embodied structural violence in the skeletal assemblage at Point San Jose (PSJ) in San Francisco, CA (1863–1903). The commingled assemblage comprised thousands of human bones, many with cut mark damage suggesting that they were used for anatomical dissection. Dissection...

... that the remains likely derived from unclaimed bodies, consistent with structural violence against marginalized individuals. Future research directions include closer examination of historical artifacts, a more in-depth analysis of incised and saw cut mark distribution, a more detailed assessment of the faunal...

... sample in Connecticut. It discusses the results of a comprehensive statewide study involving 331 participants, which showed that AIDS stigma and “structural violence” play central roles in the lives of Latino gay men in Connecticut. It also considers the relative exposure of Latino MSM to HIV prevention...

... and the severity of a small pox epidemic that ravaged the Nation Ford communities at the end of the decade is considered with reference to the concept of structural violence. The challenges faced by members of the Catawba Nation during the first half of the eighteenth century exemplify the double-edged nature...

...Using evidence of historical changes in landscape, community life, and material culture from a coal mining company town in the Anthracite Coal Region of Northeast Pennsylvania, Michael Roller introduces an archaeological approach to the structural violence on workers, citizens, and consumers...