Anthropological Notes on Southern Persia

On Cholera in Persia, 1866-68

have occasionally added information obtained from other authentic sources, so as to render the text clear and connected throughout. I believe the outbreak to have been a link of the widespread epidemic of 1865, which penetrated into that kingdom by way of Bagdad, on the return of the pilgrims from Mecca, as related in the report of the International Cholera Conference of 1866, which treats of t...

Notes on southern Africa Jerusalem crickets (Orthoptera: Stenopelmatidae: Sia).

The Old World Jerusalem cricket (JC) subfamily Siinae contains one genus, Sia, with two subgenera: Sia (Sia) with two fully winged species from southeast Asia, and Sia (Maxentius) with four wingless species from southern Africa. Because there is a dearth of published data about the behavior and biology of these insects, we present new field and laboratory research on southern African Sia (Maxen...

Politics, Kinship, and Ecology in Southeast Persia

The Iranian plateau is an ideal area for investigating the relationship be? tween ecological and sociological factors because of its stark aridity, on the one hand, and its historical role as a meeting place of ethnic and cultural movements on the other. The part of the plateau which forms the southeast corner of Persia is particularly interesting from this point of view. Over an area of some 2...

On the Recent Outbreak of Cholera in Persia

An anthropological perspective on obesity.

An anthropological perspective on obesity considers both its evolutionary background and cross-cultural variation. It must explain three basic facts about obesity: gender dimorphism (women greater than men), an increase with modernization, and a positive association with socioeconomic status. Preindustrial diets varied in quality but shared a tendency to periodic shortages. Such shortages, part...