Chapter 1 A Bioarchaeology of Purposeful Pain

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

Chapter 5 Pious Pain: Repetitive Motion Disorders from Excessive Genuflection at a Byzantine Jerusalem Monastery

Chapter 6 Therapeutic Tattoos and Ancient Mummies: 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

Chapter 10 The Politics of Pain: Gaining Status and Maintaining Order Through Ritual Combat and Warfare

Chapter 11 Pain as Power: Torture 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