Article Title：Slow (Bio)archaeology: Recovering Stories of Irish Immigrant Lives in the Huntington Anatomical Collection
Abstract：
I consider the power of slow archaeology in a study of the Huntington Anatomical Collection, focusing on Irish immigrants who lived and worked in New York City over the course of the 19th and early 20th centuries. I argue that normative bioarchaeological categories and methods cannot fully account for the varied life histories of persons in the collection. Instead, I turn to the tenets of slow archaeology to move between scales of analysis and material traces. With a slow approach, embodied experiences of labor are highlighted and discourses about laborers are challenged. A slow approach seeks to recover the lived experiences of individuals exploited in life and made anonymous in death and is one potential way toward a more ethical bioarchaeology.
Keywords: anatomical collections; archaeological ethics; historical bioarchaeology; slow archaeology; Irish diaspora; immigration; labor
DOI: 10.1007/s41636-024-00520-9
Source：HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY
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