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title = "Partible Persons or Persons Apart: Postmortem Interventions at the Spring Street Presbyterian Church, Manhattan",
abstract = "This chapter focuses on three individuals whose anatomized remains were recovered from burial vaults associated with an abolitionist church in Manhattan. Active between 1820 and 1850, the vaults contained the remains of some 200 individuals. Only three—an adult, an infant, and an adolescent—displayed evidence of postmortem intervention. The adult and infant were likely subjected to autopsies, relatively private procedures that only briefly interrupted the funerary process. The adolescent, by contrast, was probably dissected, and thus objectified in a public spectacle that dismembered the body and transformed the cranium into a teaching specimen. Yet remains of all three individuals were interred together, alongside other members of the congregation. These cases shed light on societal changes taking place during a period of rapid urbanization, when the makings of race and class, gender and life course, self and other were intertwined with the variable processing and positioning of human bodies.",
keywords = "Autopsy, Craniotomy, Dissection, New York City, Nineteenth century",
author = "Novak, {Shannon A.}",
note = "Funding Information: Acknowledgements I thank Kenneth Nystrom for his invitation to participate in this volume, and for his insightful comments on my chapter. I am grateful to my numerous collaborators on this project, but especially Joan Brenner-Coltrain and Stephanie Gladyck for allowing me to include their unpublished findings. These findings were funded in part by an Appleby-Mosher grant through the Maxwell School, Syracuse University. My thanks also goes to Anthony Faulkner, Valerie Haley, Ralph Stevens, and Joseph Stoll for producing the images in this chapter, and to Lars Rodseth, Meredith Ellis, and two anonymous reviewers for their thoughtful comments. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2017, Springer International Publishing Switzerland.",
year = "2017",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-319-26836-1_5",
language = "English (US)",
series = "Bioarchaeology and Social Theory",
publisher = "Springer Nature",
pages = "87--111",
booktitle = "Bioarchaeology and Social Theory",
address = "United States",
}