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| 1 | Introduction | 3 |
| 2 | Reconstructing health profiles from skeletal remains | 11 |
| 3 | A health index from skeletal remains | 61 |
| 4 | Paleodemography of the Americas : from ancient times to colonialism and beyond | 94 |
| 5 | The health of the middle class : the St. Thomas' Anglican Church Cemetery project | 130 |
| 6 | The poor in the mid-nineteenth-century northeastern United States : evidence from the Monroe County Almshouse, Rochester, New York | 162 |
| 7 | The effects of nineteenth-century military service on health | 185 |
| 8 | The health of slaves and free blacks in the east | 208 |
| 9 | The quality of African-American life in the old southwest near the turn of the twentieth century | 226 |
| 10 | Social disruption and the Maya civilization of Mesoamerica : a study of health and economy of the last thousand years | 283 |
| 11 | Health and nutrition in pre-Hispanic Mesoamerica | 307 |
| 12 | Patterns of health and nutrition in prehistoric and historic Ecuador | 343 |
| 13 | Economy, nutrition, and disease in prehistoric coastal Brazil : a case study from the state of Santa Catarina | 376 |
| 14 | A biohistory of health and behavior in the Georgia Bight : the agricultural transition and the impact of European contact | 406 |
| 15 | Native Americans in eastern North America : the southern Great Lakes and Upper Ohio Valley | 440 |
| 16 | Cultural longevity and biological stress in the American southwest | 481 |
| 17 | Health nutrition, and demographic change in Native California | 506 |
| 18 | Welfare history on the great plains : mortality and skeletal health, 1650 to 1900 | 524 |
| 19 | Patterns of health in the western hemisphere | 563 |
| 20 | Conclusions | 583 |
| 21 | The body as evidence; the body of evidence | 593 |
| 22 | Overspecialization and remedies | 603 |
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Brian Fujimoto
reviewed Backbone of History: Health and Nutrition in the Western Hemisphere on August 13, 2014
Backbone of History: Health and Nutrition in the Western Hemisphere
Heard a bit about the Gullah population clustered around the Carolina sea coast and wanted to find out more. I had some misinformed ideas about who the Gullah people were that this book effectively remedied, but this is a pretty dry anthropological text. The most rewarding chapters were those on the Gullah language and social structure and their relation to/mutation from their African forebears, and it's always instructive to be reminded of the horrific physical hardships endured by slaves in the American South. But the graphs: wholly unnecessary in light of the more-than-sufficient textual explications.
Pollitzer couldn't have ended his book on a more eloquent, true note: "The Gullah people are not a museum piece, relics of the past, but rather survivors of enslavement, bondage, discrimination, and white privilege, fellow human beings entitled to work out their own destiny."
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