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Ladataan... Skeleton Keys: The Secret Life of BoneTekijä: Riley Black
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Kirjaudu LibraryThingiin nähdäksesi, pidätkö tästä kirjasta vai et. Ei tämänhetkisiä Keskustelu-viestiketjuja tästä kirjasta. Interesting overview of bones by a paleontologist. Very modern and respectful. Thought provoking ( ) Если строители дома танцуют от печки, то знакомство со своим телом стоит начинать со скелета. Тем более когда по нему появился столь увлекательный гид. Костная ткань постоянно преобразуется. Даже сейчас, когда вы читаете эти строки, утверждает автор, специализированные ненасытные клетки пожирают старые кости, в то время как другие клеточные пузырьки создают новые клетки костной ткани, изнутри перерабатывая ваше тело. Кости, к слову, пока создают основное препятствие для полетов человека на Марс. Без физической активности они начнут рассасываться, а из-за сниженной прочности станут гораздо больше подвержены переломам. Каждый месяц на орбитальной станции космонавты теряют 1–2% своей костной массы. И да, весь генетический материал в костях полностью разрушается примерно за 6 млн лет. Didn't work for me. The information density is very low, yet the writing is discursive and dull. Viz. the pages and pages on sexing a skeleton, without really saying anything non-obvious or relevant. > Identifying the sex of a skeleton is one thing. Attributing an entire complex of appearances and behaviors based on assumed gender is another. Sex, gender, and sexuality are all different concepts with various origins and cultural meanings. They are interlocked but not interchangeable, yet this is often forgotten when we look at old skeletons. Using labels like La Brea Woman automatically creates a range of expectations about a person we actually know very little about, and whom we cannot ask for their interpretation. We can’t know how they would have identified their gender or what the nature of their relationships with other people were, making it all too easy for the modern viewer to impress their own values and views onto another person. … > Nor do I feel comfortable claiming bones can reveal someone’s biological sex. Our minds and how we perceive ourselves are part of our biology as certainly as our bones are, and to say someone is a man or woman based on skeletal anatomy alone erases what they would say about themselves. … > Pronouns matter, and in the absence of positive evidence I’d prefer to use “they” and “them” for people whose gender identities we don’t know. But the stories of these people are intertwined with the modern researchers studying them, so relying on “they” and “them” can also cause confusion as to who I’m talking about. To that end I’ve attempted to eschew gendered popular labels like La Brea Woman—as I feel anthropology and archaeology should do in these cases—but have retained the use of “he” or “she” to talk about the osteological sex of a skeleton whose gender is unknown "Sometimes I like to just be still and think about my bones." Same, Brian, same. Knowing very little about bones, I quite enjoyed this overview of the natural history of bones, and their cultural context. It is more conversational than academic, and left me feeling like Brian Switek would be a chill dude to have a beer with. I appreciate that he doesn't gloss over some of the more controversial ethical dilemmas that come with the study of bone: who has rights to the dead, the mistreatment of indigenous bodies, and the cultural assumptions we impose on remains. Usually with these types of non-fiction books on niche subjects, I find the authors can veer off course from the subject itself and get lost in minutiae that isn't relevant to the topic, but this book is well-organized in digestible chapters and follows a progression from the more biological aspects of bones to the sociological and cultural considerations. Skeleton Keys: The Secret Life of Bone is part scientific exploration of what bone is, part a discussion of how the fields of palaeontology and anthropology have changed over time, and part a cultural history of how people have used and abused the bones of others. Switek writes affably and with an admirable attention to the ethics of his topic, if a little bit inconsistently and repetitively—at times I wished his editor had advised him to pare his words a little closer to the bone. (Sorry.) Still, it's the kind of book that's an engaging read and will have you telling those around you the random fascinating facts you come across in its pages: did you know that dinosaurs had arthritis? That there are about 40 known cases of human males growing bones in their penises, generally due to trauma? Want to hear exactly how Richard III of England probably died? (Probably not, if you're squeamish.) ei arvosteluja | lisää arvostelu
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Bone is as embedded in our culture as it is in our bodies. Our species has made instruments and jewelry from bone, treated the dead like collectors' items, put our faith in skull bumps as guides to human behavior, and arranged skeletons into macabre tributes to the afterlife. Switek makes a compelling case for getting better acquainted with our skeletons, in all their surprising roles. Bridging the worlds of paleontology, anthropology, medicine, and forensics, Skeleton Keys illuminates the complex life of bones inside our bodies and out. Kirjastojen kuvailuja ei löytynyt. |
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