Odd, the Unusual, and the Strange

Tracy K. Betsinger is associate professor of anthropology at SUNY Oneonta. Amy B. Scott is assistant professor of anthropology at the University of New Brunswick. Betsinger and Scott are coeditors of The Anthropology of the Fetus: Biology, Culture, and Society. Anastasia Tsaliki is a forensic and cultural consultant based in London with an expertise in unusual body disposals and social exclusion.

• List of IllustrationsForewordDeconstructing "Deviant": An Introduction to the History of Atypical Burials and the Importance of Context in the Bioarchaeological Record1. Bodies Among Fragments: Non-Normative Inhumations among the Preclassic and Classic Period Hohokam in the Tucson Basin2. Interpreting a Multiple Burial in an Early Ancestral Pueblo Village3. A Young Man Twice Burned: A Deviant Burial from West-Central Illinois4. The Odd Man Out in a Pioneer Cemetery at Seccombe Lake Park, San Bernadino, California5. Defining Non-Normative Practices in a Diverse Funerary Record: Insights from the Caribbean6. Good, Bad, or Indifferent? A Unique "Deviant" Burial from the Formative Site of Aranjuez-Santa Lucía, South Central Andes7. The Hunchback, the Contortionist, the Man with the Stolen Identity, and the One Who Will be Born in the Afterlife: Pre-Hispanic Deviant Burials from Huarmey Valley, Peru8. Friend or Foe? Investigating a Mass Burial at the Templo de la Piedra Segrada at Túcume, Peru9. What's the Norm? "Irregular" and "Regular" Burial Practices of the Early Iron Age in Central Europe10. Burial in a Kiln: Transgression and Punishment in Late Antiquity11. Variation Beyond the Grave: Contextualizing Unusual Burials in Early Medieval Bohemia12. Good and Bad Death in Early Medieval Times? Theoretical and Methodological Approaches to Non-Normative Burials in Finland in the Eleventh-Thirteenth Centuries ADU13. Atypical Burials in Early Medieval Poland: A Critical Overview14. Does Health Define Deviancy? Non-Normative Burials in Post-Medieval Poland15. The "Vampires" of Lesvos: Detecting and Interpreting Anti-Revenant Ritual in Greece16. Natural Mummification as a Non-Normative Mortuary Custom of Modern Period Sicily (1600-1800) 17. Out of Range? Non-normative Funerary Practices from the Neolithic to the early Twentieth Century at Çatalhöyük, Turkey18. Deviant Treatment of the Body as a Mortuary Ritual: A Case from the Middle Jomon Period in Eastern Japan19. Ancestors, Conflict, and Criminality in Ancient China and Mongolia20. Dependent Deviance: Castration and Deviant BurialAfterwordContributors