Medical anthropologists are involved in the control of several infectious and parasitic diseases throughout the world, but only recently have anthropologists (or any social scientists for that matter) conducted field studies on high mortality emerging diseases such as Ebola hemorrhagic fever (EHF). HEWLETT and AMOLA (5) provided the first systematic medical anthropological field study of Ebola ...

Some anthropologists have suggested prehistoric Old and New world contacts. Meggers, Evans, and Estrada are the most recent advocates, and their hypothesis of a landfall by Japanese fishermen on the coast of Ecuador seems to have been the causa belli of the attack by John Rowe on "doctrinaire diffusionism." In a response to Rowe, Jett and Carter (1966) suggest his level of absolute proof is the...

Kinship used to be described as what anthropologists do. Today, many might well say that it is what anthropologists do not do. One possible explanation is that the notion of kinship fell off anthropology’s radar due to the criticisms raised by Needham and Schneider among others, which supposedly demonstrated that kinship is not a sound theoretical concept. Drawing inspiration from epidemiologic...