ALFRED L. ROSENBERGER,* GREGG F. GUNNELL, AND RUSSELL L. CIOCHON Department of Anthropology and Archaeology, Brooklyn College, City University of New York, Brooklyn, New York Department of Anthropology, City University of New York Graduate Center, New York Consortium in Evolutionary Primatology (NYCEP), New York, New York Department of Mammalogy, American Museum of Natural History, New York, Ne...

Department of Anthropology and Center for Behavior, Evolution, and Culture, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1553, USA Institute of Social Anthropology, FSEV, Comenius University, 820 05 Bratislava 25, Slovakia Social Sciences Subdivision, College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, IL 60137-6599, USA Department of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barb...

Beller, Bender, and Medin argue that a reconciliation between anthropology and cognitive science seems unlikely. We disagree. In our view, Beller et al.'s view of the scope of what anthropology can offer cognitive science is too narrow. In focusing on anthropology's role in elucidating cultural particulars, they downplay the fact that anthropology can reveal both variation and universals in hum...

This following article is a reprint of “Ethnomedicine and medical anthropology. A survey of developments in Germany” from “Reviews in Anthropology” 4, 4: 473–485, 1978. Thirty years ago the author analyzed the discourses in Medical Anthropology taking place in German speaking countries. He referred to important initiators of this new interdisciplinary field such as Edmund Husserl and his concep...

1. The Ways in which Anthropology Considers Issues of Development 1.

This paper reviews the uneven history of the relationship between Anthropology and Cognitive Science over the past 30 years, from its promising beginnings, followed by a period of disaffection, on up to the current context, which may lay the groundwork for reconsidering what Anthropology and (the rest of) Cognitive Science have to offer each other. We think that this history has important lesso...

Ethnomathematics is the study of mathematical ideas and practices situated in their cultural context. Culturally Situated Design Tools (CSDTs) are web-based software applications that allow students to create simulations of cultural arts—Native American beadwork, African American cornrow hairstyles, urban graffiti, and so forth—using these underlying mathematical principles. This article is a r...

Dear reader, in the last issue we looked at economic anthropology, and the current issue contains a comment on this by the anthropologist Chris Hann. The theme of the issue is economics. In our leading article, sociologists and economists look closer at economics. One conclusion, after having looked at contemporary economics, is that economists are getting closer to sociology. Rainer Diaz-Bone ...

A nonsecular medical anthropology insists on the ways medicine and science have constituted 'the secular' itself through the 'secular self'-how medical knowing has been used to craft the secular political subject. As James Boon noted, too often in social theory, "religion gets safely tucked away-restricted theoretically to 'meaning' rather than power" (1998:245). The authors of the six articles...