Using the theory of silencing developed by Haitian anthropologist Michel-Rolph Trouillot this essay analyses British attack to island Puerto Rico in 1797. It argues that Rican historiography neglected and silenced pivotal role Black Ricans historical event. This reflection also proposes a new way revise hegemonic discourse, which contributes marginalization from construction island‟s national i...

The project in memory of anthropologist, writer and politician Darcy Ribeiro is analyzed, with emphasis on the relationship he had with his personal archives and the creation of the Darcy Ribeiro Foundation, established to give continuity to his 'legacy.' It highlights the influences present in the formation of his archive and presents an ethnography that seeks to restore the historicity of the...

The main purpose of this paper is to give the review of the contribution in dermatoglyphics from 1563 through 2005. The importance of it is given as observed in fingers, middle and proximal phalanges, palms, soles, toes, the inheritance of patterns, personal indentification, medico – legal cases, twin diagnosis and correlation with various types of afflictions. Author’s Address: Prof. Dr. H. K....

This is a brief guide, for anthropologists with some quantitative experience, to our paper Dynamical Structure of a Traditional Amazonian Social Network [1], an article by me (Simon), Paul Hooper (an anthropologist at Emory), Ann Caldwell Hooper (Anthropology, Emory), Michael Gurven (Anthropology, UC Santa Barbara) and Hilly Kaplan (Anthropology, University of New Mexico), featuring real-world ...

The article analyzes Brazilian anthropologist Edgard Roquette-Pinto's participation in the international debate that involved the field of physical anthropology and discussions on miscegenation in the first decades of the twentieth century. Special focus is on his readings and interpretations of a group of US anthropologists and eugenicists and his controversies with them, including Charles Dav...

Katrina Karkazis is a medical anthropologist at the Center for Biomedical Ethics, Stanford University. Her first book, Fixing Sex: Intersex, Medical Authority, and Lived Experience (Duke University Press, 2008), looks at the question of how to treat infants whose bodies do not fit neatly into our scientific categories of “male” or “female,” from the perspective of doctors, parents, and adults w...

Along with the sense of relief felt by most anthropologists at the rejection of negligence claims against the anthropologist at the eye of the Hindmarsh maelstrom, there was some confusion and concern about the apparent characterisation of the anthropologist's role as one of advocate rather than a provider of independent professional advice. Professor Francesca Merlan, in particular, raised the...

Photographic supra-projection is a forensic anthropology technique for the identification of human beings from their skeletal remains, where photographs of the “missing person” are compared with the found skull. Its main drawback is the lack of a systematic analysis method, so every researcher applies his own methodology. This is both due to the large complexity of the projection procedure and ...