Opening Up the Family Tree: Promoting More Diverse and Inclusive Studies of Family, Kinship, and Relatedness in Bioarchaeology

Johnson, Kent M.

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“…En este punto fue revelador la contribución de Johnston (2019), quien problematiza la manera en que se trabajó el parentesco en nuestra disciplina y hace visible la importancia de plantear otras formas de parentesco y organización familiar, más amplias, que excedan la visión genealógica y heteronormativa de la familiar nuclear, con las limitaciones que implica. En su argumento expone que los datos aportados por la genética o por análisis moleculares brindarán información (más certera) de un aspecto de la relación biológica, pero se escapará de su interpretación una parte importante de la misma, la de las relaciones sociales, membresía y pertenencia de las personas con respecto a un grupo familiar (Johnston, 2019).…”

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Dos generaciones, un entierro: perspectivas osteobiográficas aplicadas al sitio Banda Meridional del Lago, Embalse de Río Tercero, Córdoba, Argentina

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El presente trabajo se orienta a reconstruir, desde una perspectiva osteobiográfica, la historia de vida de una mujer que habitó la región serrana de Córdoba durante el Holoceno tardío final, considerando dos grandes períodos dentro del curso de su vida, infancia y adultez. En particular, desde la bioarqueología social, interesa “humanizar el pasado”, combinando la información bioarqueológica y arqueológica con un relato narrativo ficticio, forma alternativa a los principales géneros de escritura arqueológica y bioarqueológica. Los estudios osteobiográficos incluyeron la determinación del sexo, estimación de edad y lateralidad, el relevamiento de lesiones patológicas a nivel macroscópico y radiológico, así como cambios entesiales y degenerativos. Se incorporó información isotópica (δ13C, δ15N), arqueobotánica (silicofitolitos y almidones contenidos en tártaro dental) y genética (linaje mitocondrial) al estudio de caso. De esta forma se buscó ahondar, desde una perspectiva multidisciplinar, en una historia de vida singular moldeada por la dinámica sociocultural de una comunidad aldeana. Las experiencias corporizadas de esta mujer nos permiten indagar acerca de su salud, su alimentación, hábitos o usos del cuerpo. En particular, su entierro junto a un párvulo inhumado a sus pies en una urna, nos lleva a (re)pensar en las relaciones entre muertos, vivos y sus ancestros, desde una perspectiva relacional y superadora de los vínculos meramente biológicos.

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Dos generaciones, un entierro: perspectivas osteobiográficas aplicadas al sitio Banda Meridional del Lago, Embalse de Río Tercero, Córdoba, Argentina

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“…In the absence of written records, prehistoric social structure is reconstructed primarily via evidence from mortuary remains (12). Archaeological kinship studies use mortuary evidence to understand the specific role of family structure in shaping social organization (13,14), and are critical for determining how familial relationships have influenced the emergence of social complexity and the evolution of persistent inequality (5,10,15,16). The anthropological understanding of kinship embraces not only biological relatedness, but also a broad range of non-biological social relationships (12).…”

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Kinship, acquired and inherited status, and population structure at the Early Bronze Age Mokrin necropolis in northern Serbia

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Blöcher

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Twenty-four ancient genomes with an average sequencing coverage of 0.85±0.25 X were produced from the Mokrin necropolis, an Early Bronze Age (2,100-1,800 BC) Maros culture site in Serbia, to provide unambiguous identification of biological sex, population structure, and genetic kinship between individuals. Of the 24 investigated individuals, 15 were involved in kinship relationships of varying degrees, including 3 parent-offspring relationships. All observed parent-offspring pairs were mother and son. In addition to the absence of biological daughters, we observed a number of young women and girls with no biological relatives in our sample. These observations, together with the high mitochondrial diversity in our sample, are consistent with the practice of female exogamy in the population served by Mokrin. However, moderate-to-high Y-chromosomal diversity suggests a degree of male mobility greater than that expected under strict patrilocality. Individual status differences at Mokrin, as indicated by grave goods, support the inference that females could inherit status, but could not transmit status to all their sons. The case of a son whose grave good richness outstrips that of his biological mother suggests that sons had the possibility to acquire status during their lifetimes. The Mokrin sample resembles a genetically unstructured population, suggesting that the community's social hierarchies were not accompanied by strict marriage barriers.

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“…A recent review article on kinship studies in the contemporary Andes noted the diverse familial organizations evident in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries (Weismantel and Wilhoit 2019). The permanence or fluidity of this institution is not often explored in the distant past; yet, it can be a fruitful contribution for bioarchaeological work (Johnson 2019). Johnson and Paul's (2016, 95) consideration of family as a "multiscalar collective identity" is ideally suited for bioarchaeological research on cooperation because people must physically enact and practice these social ties.…”

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Heterarchy and the Creation of Nomadic States in Mongolia: The Bioarchaeological Evidence from the Xianbei Period (AD 93–234)

Lee

2020

American Anthropologist

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Human behavior and human societies are always complex, arguably the most complex social arrangements of any known species, and organized in an infinite number of ways. This organization often relies on cooperation, a form of human interaction that is deeply rooted and at times more useful than working individually (Coelho and McClure 2016; Mead 1937). Mead (1937, 8) defines cooperation as "the act of working together to one end," and cooperative relationships have been at the center of many ethnographic accounts of small-scale communities as well as nation-building attempts (Anderson 1983). Despite this obvious reliance on cooperation, scholars have often ignored cooperation when thinking about large groups in the past. Traditionally, anthropologists and archaeologists have focused on ranked or hierarchical systems of organization built on competitive relationships, imagining a vertical distribution of power, building from small egalitarian bands through vertically arranged states (Service 1962). This focus on hierarchy and a linear progression of social organizations diminishes the diversity of human societies, essentializes human groups in limited stereotypes, and relies on patriarchal and colonial classifications (Appadurai 1988; Henry, Angelbeck, and Rizvi 2017). The flaws in Service's descriptions of power organizations are numerous and apparent, yet this model of power persists. In 1979, Crumley introduced the idea to archaeology that organizational systems can take forms other than control hierarchies, instead suggesting that heterarchy is just as common and works in flux with hierarchy. Heterarchy is

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Opening Up the Family Tree: Promoting More Diverse and Inclusive Studies of Family, Kinship, and Relatedness in Bioarchaeology

Cited by 10 publications

References 100 publications

Dos generaciones, un entierro: perspectivas osteobiográficas aplicadas al sitio Banda Meridional del Lago, Embalse de Río Tercero, Córdoba, Argentina

Dos generaciones, un entierro: perspectivas osteobiográficas aplicadas al sitio Banda Meridional del Lago, Embalse de Río Tercero, Córdoba, Argentina

Kinship, acquired and inherited status, and population structure at the Early Bronze Age Mokrin necropolis in northern Serbia

Heterarchy and the Creation of Nomadic States in Mongolia: The Bioarchaeological Evidence from the Xianbei Period (AD 93–234)

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