Purposeful Pain

Foreword.- Chapter 1. A Bioarchaeology of Purposeful Pain.- Part 1. No Pain, No Gain: Ideals of Beauty and Success.- Chapter 2. Fashionable but Debilitating Diseases: Tuberculosis Past and Present.- Chapter 3. Bound to Please: The Shaping of Female Beauty, Gender Theory, Structural Violence, and Bioarchaeological Investigations.- Chapter 4. Meaningful Play, Meaningful Pain: Learning the Purpose of Injury in Sport.- Part 2. Rituals of Pain and Practice.- Chapter 5. Pious Pain: Repetitive Motion Disorders from Excessive Genuflection at a Byzantine Jerusalem Monastery.- Chapter 6. Bioarchaeology of Therapeutic Tattoos: The Case of the Iceman.- Chapter 7. Intentionally Modified Teeth Among the Vikings - Was it Painful?.- Chapter 8. "I Thought I Was Going to Die": Examining Experiences of Childbirth Pain Through Bioarchaeological and Ethnographic Perspectives.- Chapter 9. The Purposeful Pain of Drug Addiction: A Biocultural Approach.- Part 3. The Politics of Pain: Power and Social Control.- Chapter 10. The Politics of Pain: Gaining Status and Maintaining Order Through Ritual Combat and Warfare.- Chapter 11. Pain as Power: Pain as a Mechanism for Social Control.- Chapter 12. Binding, Wrapping, Constricting, and Constraining the Head: A Consideration of Cranial Vault Modification and the Pain of Infants.- Chapter 13. Performing Identity and Revealing Structures of Violence Through Purposeful Pain.- Index.