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  • Illustrations; Acknowledgements Forward: How/Shall We Consider the Fetus?; Rayna Rapp Introduction: Conceiving the Anthropology of the Fetus: An Introduction; Sallie Han, Tracy K. Betsinger, and Amy B. Scott PART I: THE FETUS IN BIOSOCIAL PERSPECTIVE Chapter 1. The Borderless Fetus: Temporal Complexity of the Lived Fetal Experience; Julienne Rutherford Chapter 2. The Biology of the Fetal Period: Interpreting Life from Fetal Skeletal Remains; Kathleen Ann Satterlee Blake Chapter 3. Pregnant with Ideas: Concepts of the Fetus in the Twenty-First Century United States; Sallie Han PART II: FINDING FETUSES IN THE PAST: ARCHAEOLOGY AND BIOARCHAEOLOGY Chapter 4. The Bioarchaeology of Fetuses; Siân E.
  • Halcrow, Nancy Tayles, and Gail E. Elliott Chapter 5. Fetal Paleopathology: An Impossible Discipline?; Mary E. Lewis Chapter 6. The Neolithic Infant Cemetery at Gebel Ramlah in Egypt's Western Desert; Jacek Kabaciński, Agnieszka Czekaj-Zastawny, and Joel D. Irish Chapter 7. Excavating Identity: Burial Context and Fetal Identity in Post-Medieval Poland; Amy B. Scott and Tracy K. Betsinger PART III: THE ONCE AND FUTURE FETUS: SOCIOCULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY Chapter 8. Waiting: The Redemption of Frozen Embryos through Embryo Adoption and Stem Cell Research in the United States; Risa D.
  • Cromer Chapter 9. Deploying the Fetus: Constructing Pregnancy and Abortion in Morocco; Jessica Marie Newman Chapter 10. Beyond Life Itself: The Embedded Fetuses of Russian Orthodox Anti-Abortion Activism; Sonja Luehrmann Chapter 11. The "Sound" of Life: Or How Should We Hear a Fetal "Voice"?; Rebecca Howes-Mischel Conclusion ; Tracy K. Betsinger, Amy B. Scott, and Sallie Han Glossary; Index.