Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Foreword. How/Shall We Consider the Fetus? xii
6. Introduction. Conceiving the Anthropology of the Fetus 1
7. PART I: The Fetus in Biosocial Perspective
8. Chapter 1. The Borderless Fetus: Temporal Complexity of the Lived Fetal Experience 15
9. Chapter 2. The Biology of the Fetal Period: Interpreting Life from Fetal Skeletal Remains 34
10. Chapter 3. Pregnant with Ideas: Concepts of the Fetus in the Twenty-First-Century United States 59
11. PART II: Finding Fetuses in the Past: Archaeology and Bioarchaeology
12. Chapter 4. The Bioarchaeology of Fetuses 83
13. Chapter 5. Fetal Paleopathology: An Impossible Discipline? 112
14. Chapter 6. The Neolithic Infant Cemetery at Gebel Ramlah in Egypt’s Western Desert 132
15. Chapter 7. Excavating Identity: Burial Context and Fetal Identity in Postmedieval Poland 146
16. PART III: The Once and Future Fetus: Sociocultural Anthropology
17. Chapter 8. Waiting: The Redemption of Frozen Embryos through Embryo Adoption and Stem Cell Research in the United States 171
18. Chapter 9. Deploying the Fetus: Constructing Pregnancy and Abortion in Morocco 200
19. Chapter 10. Beyond Life Itself: The Embedded Fetuses of Russian Orthodox Anti-Abortion Activism 227
20. Chapter 11. The “Sound” of Life: Or, How Should We Hear a Fetal “Voice”? 252
21. Conclusion 276
22. Glossary 279
23. Index 284