Considerable tension among the subfields has existed within the discipline of anthropology. As a result, some anthropology departments have splintered, and the hallmark "holistic approach" of anthropology has been considered more myth than reality. However, as promoted by the American Anthropological Association and the American Anthropologist for over one hundred years, enhancing the holistic ...

This work intends to illustrate some of the contributions the semantic theory known as ‘Frame Semantics’ can make to the translation of cultural elements. The study starts by defining the objectives and basic concepts that constitute our model of analysis. Secondly, a typology of frames for the analysis of our examples is proposed. Later on, this typology is applied to the analysis of a number ...

MARCOS A. GONZÁLEZ, JESÚS MARTÍNEZ 1 & ANTONIO RUÍZ Department of Zoology and Physical Anthropology, Faculty of Biology, University of Santiago de Compostela, 15702, Santiago de Compostela (La Coruña), Spain. E-mail: [email protected]; [email protected] Departamento de Sistemas Físicos, Químicos y Naturales (Zoología), Universidad Pablo de Olavide, A-376 km 1, 41013 Sevilla, Spain. E-m...

This commentary calls on medical anthropology to become programmatically non-secular. Despite recent anthropological critiques of secularity, within and outside of anthropology, most contemporary medical anthropologists continue to leave deities and religiosity out of their examinations of healing practices, especially in their accounts of biomedicine. Through a critical, relational constructio...

1 Department of Anthropology, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America, 2 Paleoanthropology Institute, Oakland, California, United States of America, 3 Department of Anthropology, Chaffey College, Rancho Cucamonga, California, United States of America, 4 Department of Anthropology and Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pe...

H UMAN ALLOALBUMINEMIA-to use the term coined by Blumberg et al.1-is characterized by the presence of types of albumin that electrophoretically migrate faster or slower than common albumin. The nomenclature used by the two most active groups in this field and the relative migration of the albumin variants are shown in Figure 1. The possible association of these variants with clinical or biochem...

The source of activity of every individual or group is to a great extent determined by the necessity of interaction with other individuals or groups (Afanasiev, 1990), i.e. with the diversity of anthropological surroundings. This manifests itself in the participation of individuals in the organization of their ecosystems, including the ethnocultural and physical conditions of life (Sukharev, 19...

Franz Boas’s classic study, Changes in Bodily Form of Descendants of Immigrants, is a landmark in the history of anthropology. More than any single study, it undermined racial typology in physical anthropology and helped turn the tide against early-20thcentury scientific racism. In 1928, Boas responded to critics of the immigrant study by publishing the raw data set as Materials for the Study o...

The author provides a comprehensive analysis of the physical anthropology of the Finns and Saami, comparing them with other Scandinavian peoples and contrasting them genetically with the Mongoloid peoples of Asia, notwithstanding the affinities which link the Finnish language with the Uralic and to a lesser extent the Altaic languages. He concludes that both the Finns and the Saami are genetica...