While they are approaching the concepts slightly differently, the ideas stay the same: identity is not condensable to death. Since archaeologist work with an incomplete sample, it is a hard to tell how much information is missing. The Torres-Rouff and Knudsen paper provided interesting insight as to what ethnicity and being foreign mean. A mortuary ritual will not encompass all of ones identity, so archaeologists need to be careful with the inferences that they are making. In their osteobiography, they discovered a foreigner assimilating into a new society (Torres-Rouff 2007 :248). He appeared to be eating the same as everyone else, indicating equal status. His burial and osteobiography indicated that he had assimilated into the culture. This raises questions about the personhood and agency of this individual. Since he had assimilated into a new culture, he was assigned different personhood and agency. While there is no way to know exactly how he was treated, his health indicates that he was not likely discriminated against. This also shows the adaptability of personhood, while the individual did not change, his personhood and agency did as he was under a new social
While they are approaching the concepts slightly differently, the ideas stay the same: identity is not condensable to death. Since archaeologist work with an incomplete sample, it is a hard to tell how much information is missing. The Torres-Rouff and Knudsen paper provided interesting insight as to what ethnicity and being foreign mean. A mortuary ritual will not encompass all of ones identity, so archaeologists need to be careful with the inferences that they are making. In their osteobiography, they discovered a foreigner assimilating into a new society (Torres-Rouff 2007 :248). He appeared to be eating the same as everyone else, indicating equal status. His burial and osteobiography indicated that he had assimilated into the culture. This raises questions about the personhood and agency of this individual. Since he had assimilated into a new culture, he was assigned different personhood and agency. While there is no way to know exactly how he was treated, his health indicates that he was not likely discriminated against. This also shows the adaptability of personhood, while the individual did not change, his personhood and agency did as he was under a new social