SoS 136- Ethics in Bioarcheology and The Poetics of Processing with Dr. Anna Osterholtz

On this week’s episode of The Sausage of Science, we bring you an exciting interview with Dr. Anna Osterholtz who is an Assistant Professor of Bioanthropology at Mississippi State focusing on treatment of the dead and how poetics models can be applied to examine the social role of violence in Croatia and Cyprus. On this episode, she talks with Chris and Cara about her new book entitled “ The Poetics of Processing: Memory Formation, Identity, and the Handling of the Dead” (https://upcolorado.com/university-press-of-colorado/item/3884-the-poetics-of-processing) and ethics of using human remains in research and training in bioarchaeology. She is currently accepting graduate students and you can find out more about her research here: https://www.amec.msstate.edu/directory/ajo163 Contact the Sausage of Science Podcast and Human Biology Association: Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation Website:humbio.org/, Twitter: @HumBioAssoc Cara Ocobock, Website: sites.nd.edu/cara-ocobock/, Email:[email protected], Twitter:@CaraOcobock Chris Lynn, HBA Public Relations Committee Chair, Website: cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, Email: [email protected], Twitter:@Chris_Ly Delaney Glass, Website: dglass.netlify.app/, Email: [email protected], Twitter: @GlassDelaney Alexandra Niclou, Email: [email protected], Twitter: @fiat_Luxandra