@article{0a371828c81e4657a36791da861358d4,
title = "Introduction: Health, Well-Being, and Ability in Archaeology",
abstract = "This thematic volume explores how health, well-being, and ability are constructed in the past and in the present. The volume{\textquoteright}s authors undo and question deeply ingrained assumptions about what constitutes a “normative” body. They do so by not only looking at how bodies have been medicalized and envisioned in the past, but also how our own profession and discipline discriminates against certain types of bodies in the present.",
keywords = "Disability studies, Health, Healthcare, Medicine, Well-being",
author = "Camp, {Stacey L.} and Barnes, {Jodi A.} and Sarah Surface-Evans",
note = "Funding Information: Joan Gero (:344) observed that women in the profession of archaeology were more likely to be relegated to indoor work, such as laboratory and museum research, than men. She also found that women were also less likely to receive funding by the National Science Foundation (NSF) in the United States and that fieldwork, not laboratory work, was more likely to be funded by the same agency (Gero :347). Woodall and Perricone () similarly argued that archaeology{\textquoteright}s “cowboy” stereotype narrowly defined the parameters of who could be considered a professional archaeologist, a stereotype that unfortunately lingers in the present (Moser ). Feminist archaeologists discovered that these biases were not only determining who could secure a job or obtain an education in archaeology but also influencing archaeologists{\textquoteright} depictions and interpretations of people in the past. Feminist archaeologists critiqued the ways archaeologists depicted men as active agents, responsible for social organization, religious rituals, and procuring the majority of food to support their communities, while women were portrayed as playing passive, minor roles in their communities and in the past (e.g., Conkey and Gero , ; Conkey and Spector ; Spector ). Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.",
year = "2023",
month = mar,
doi = "10.1007/s10761-021-00645-0",
language = "English",
volume = "27",
pages = "1--16",
journal = "International Journal of Historical Archaeology",
issn = "1092-7697",
publisher = "International Journal of Historical ARchaeology",
number = "1",
}