Theorizing Bioarchaeology

Pamela L. Geller is an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Miami. Her research, interests include bioarchaeology and biohistory; theorizing about gender, sexuality, race, and nation; biopolitics and necropolitics; socio-politics of the past; and bioethics. More recently she has become obsessed with plastics as 21st-century material culture in need of urgent archaeological attention. Her publications include The Bioarchaeology of Social-Sexual Lives (2017, Springer Press), co-edited volume Feminist Anthropology (2006, Penn Press), numerous journal articles, and op-eds. She is also editor of the Routledge book series The Archaeology of Gender and Sexuality. Over the years, Geller has conducted fieldwork in Israel, Hawai’i, Belize, Honduras, Perú, and Haiti.

• Chapter 1. Bioarchaeology as a Young and Emerging Discipline.- Chapter 2.  Evolutionary Theory and Cultural Ecology/Human Behavioral Ecology Theory.- Chapter 3. Theories on Society and Inequality.- Chapter 4.  Gender and Identity Theory.- Chapter 5. Violence Theory.- Chapter 6. Colonialism Theory.- Chapter 7. Practice Theory and Human Experience.- Chapter 8. Future Directions.