New directions in biocultural anthropology

New directions in biocultural anthropology / [edited by] Molly K. Zuckerman and Debra L. Martin.

Biocultural or biosocial anthropology is a research approach that views biology and culture as dialectically and inextricably intertwined, explicitly emphasizing the dynamic interaction between humans and their larger social, cultural, and physical environments. The biocultural approach emerged in a...

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Other Authors: Zuckerman, Molly K. (Editor), Martin, Debra L. (Professor of Biological Anthropology) (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Hoboken, New Jersey : John Wiley & Sons, 2016.
Subjects:
Physical anthropology.
physical anthropology.
NATURE > Animals > Mammals.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Zoology > Mammals.
Physical anthropology
dissertations.
Academic theses
Academic theses.
Thèses et écrits académiques.
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Table of Contents:
  • A biocultural tribute to a biocultural scholar: Professor George J. Armelagos, May 22, 1936-May 15, 2014 / Debra L Martin, Molly K Zuckerman
  • Introduction: the development of biocultural perspectives in anthropology / Molly K Zuckerman, Debra L Martin
  • Critical and synthetic approaches to biocultural anthropology. Exploring biocultural concepts: anthropology for the next generation / R Brooke Thomas
  • Local nutrition in global contexts: critical biocultural perspectives on the nutrition transition in Mexico / Thomas L Leatherman, Morgan K Hoke, Alan H Goodman
  • Biocultural approaches to identity. Disease and dying while black: how racism, not race, gets under the skin / Alan H Goodman
  • Beyond genetic race: biocultural insights into the causes of racial health disparities / Christopher W Kuzawa, Clarence C Gravlee
  • Political economy of African forced migration and enslavement in colonial New York: an historical biology perspective / Michael L Blakey, Lesley M Rankin-Hill
  • Identifying the First African Baptist Church: searching for historically invisible people / Lesley M Rankin-Hill
  • Biocultural approaches to health and diet. "Canaries in the mineshaft" : the children of Kulubnarti / Paul A Sandberg, Dennis P Gerven
  • Biocultural investigations of ancient Nubia / Brenda J Baker
  • Life and death in nineteenth-century Peoria, Illinois: taking a biocultural approach towards understanding the past / Anne L Grauer, Laura A Williams, M Catherine Bird
  • Does industrialization always result in reduced skeletal robusticity? / Ann L Magennis, Joshua GS Clementz
  • Stable isotopes and selective forces: examples in biocultural and environmental anthropology / Christine D White, Fred J Longstaffe
  • The cuisine of prehispanic Central Mexico reconsidered: the "omnivore's dilemma" revisited / Randolph J Widmer, Rebecca Storey
  • Biocultural approaches to infectious disease. The specter of Ebola: epidemiologic transitions versus the zombie apocalypse / Ronald Barrett
  • Beyond the differential diagnosis: new approaches to the bioarchaeology of the Hittite plague / Nicole E Smith-Guzman, Jerome C Rose, Kathleen Kuckens
  • Paleoepidemiological and biocultural approaches to ancient disease: the origin and antiquity of syphilis / Molly K Zuckerman, Kristin N Harper
  • Biocultural approaches to understanding population dynamics. Population and disease transitions in the land Islands, Finland / James H Mielke
  • The hygiene hypothesis and the second epidemiologic transition: using biocultural, epidemiological, and evolutionary theory to inform practice in clinical medicine and public health / Molly K Zuckerman, Jonathan R Belanich, George J Armelagos
  • An emerging history of Indigenous Caribbean and circum-Caribbean populations: insights from archaeological, ethnographic, genetic, and historical studies / Theodore G Schurr, Jada Benn Torres, Miguel G Vilar, Jill B Gaieski, Carlalynne Melendez
  • Explorations in paleodemography: an overview of the Artificial Long House Valley agent-based modeling project / Alan C Swedlund, Lisa Sattenspiel, Amy Warren, Richard S Meindl, George J Gumerman
  • Biocultural approaches to inequality and violence. Biocultural perspectives in bioarchaeology / Bethany L Turner, Haagen D Klaus
  • The poetics of violence in bioarchaeology: Integrating social theory with trauma analysis / Ventura R Perez
  • Broken bodies and broken bones: Biocultural approaches to ancient slavery and torture / Debra L Martin, Anna J Osterholtz
  • The next generation. Concluding thoughts: a bright future for students trained in using a biocultural perspective / Debra L Martin, Molly K Zuckerman.

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