Bioarchaeology and social identity in Southeast Asia and the Pacific

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Comment by Peter Matthews on July 8, 2009 at 10:13pm

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Comment by Peter Matthews on July 4, 2009 at 1:00pm

Session abstract
Social identity – how we perceive and classify ourselves and others into categories – is fundamental to the construction of societies and culture. As a specialisation that incorporates both the biological and social sciences, bioarchaeology is particularly well placed to contribute to the understanding of social identities in the past. This session will include papers on recent Southeast Asian and Pacific bioarchaeological research incorporating aspects of social theory. The combination of biological evidence with methodological and theoretical advances in mortuary archaeology can contribute to a broader understanding of a wide range of aspects of social identity including age, sex/gender, health, disability, social status, kinship and occupation.

Session speakers
Aimee Foster (University of Otago): Skeletal analysis of activity in mainland Southeast Asia.

Anna Willis (ANU): title TBA.

Ben Shaw (University of Otago): title TBA.

Charlotte King (University of Otago): title TBA.

Damien Huffer (ANU): title TBA.

Eng Ken Khong and Stephen Chia (Universiti Sains Malaysia, Pulau Pinang): Bioanthropological perspectives on a late prehistoric burial in Bukit Kamiri, Semporna, Sabah, Malaysia

Etty Indriati (Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia): Cranial trauma in early humans.

Frederique Valentin: title TBA.

Hallie Buckley (University of Otago): Diet and disease in the Lapita-associated skeletal samples of Watom, PNG and Teouma, Vanuatu.

Harry Widianto (Balai Pelestarian Sangiran, Indonesia): Human remains from the major islands of Indonesia during the second half of the Holocene

Jack Medrana (University of the Philippines): Philippine skeletons dated to the earlier half of the second millennium C.E.

Johan Arif and Rubyanto Kapid (Institute of Technology Bandung, Indonesia): Secular dental reduction of prehistoric Javanese populations.

Kasey Robb (University of Otago): title TBA.

Katharine Cox (Otago University, New Zealand): title TBA.

Korakot Boonlop (The Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Anthropology Centre (SAC), Bangkok): Dental characteristics of prehistoric population in the Sakon Nakhon Basin, northeast Thailand: a reference case from dental remains at Ban Chiang.

Lorna Tilley and Marc Oxenham (ANU): Identity through suffering: aspects of society and the individual revealed in a case of extreme disability from Neolithic Vietnam.

Nancy Tayles (Otago University, New Zealand): title TBA.

Naruphol Wangthongchaicharoen (SAC-Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Anthropology Centre, Bangkok): The metric attributes of infracranial skeletons of prehistoric humans from Wat Pho Srinai, Ban Chiang, NE Thailand

Nathan Harris (University of Otago): Disposing of the Dead: The application of anthropologie de terrain to Ban Non Wat, Thailand.

Natthamon Pureepatpong (Silpakorn University, Bangkok): Musculoskeletal stress markers and palaeopathology of human Remains in the late pleistocene-early holocene and late holocene periods in Pang Mapha District, Mae Hong Son Province, Northwestern Thailand.

Rebecca Kinaston (University of Otago): title TBA.

Sian Halcrow (University of Otago): Subadult health and burial ritual at Ban Non Wat, Northeast Thailand.

Somthawin Sukliang (Silpakorn University, Bangkok): Child mortuary ritual in Iron Age SE Asia (Thailand)

Stacey Ward (University of Otago): title TBA.