November 19, 2002 Text: 14 pp Bibliography: 2 pp Prepared for Dr. Bindon Principles of Physical Anthropology Introduction Coronary heart disease (CHD) is the primary cause of premature mortality in most modern societies (Mann, 2002). In transitional or modernizing societies, such as the countries of Eastern Europe and Asia, the rate of CHD mortality is increasing (dos Santos et al., 1994; Mann,...

one guinea. The first annual issue of this gigantic undertaking has appeared under the auspices of the Royal Society of London. The branches of science included in this catalogue number seventeen :?Mathematics, Mechanics, Physics, Chemistry, Astronomy, Meteorology, Mineralogy, Geology, Geography, Palaeontology, General Biology, Botany, Zoology, Human Anatomy, Physical Anthropology, Bacteriology...

Nursing has interfaces with numerous other areas in the production of knowledge, involving Biological and Health Sciences (Medicine, Biology, Nutrition, Physical Therapy, and others), the Humanities (Psychology, Education, History) and Applied Social Sciences (Organizations, Work , Education, Communication, Information Technology and Economics). Many of these interfaces/interactions are already...

Public health focuses on health of the population and it is concerned with threats to health based on population health analysis. Anthropology covers most aspects that concern human beings. Both sciences converge on community and this fact represents a foundation for the partnership between public health and anthropology. Biological/medical anthropology is one of the highly developed fi elds of...

Linguistic anthropologists investigate how language use both presupposes and creates social relations in cultural context (Silverstein, 1985; Duranti, 1997; Agha, 2006). Theories and methods from linguistic anthropology have been productively applied in educational research for the past 40 years. This chapter describes key aspects of a linguistic anthropological approach, reviews research in wh...

By shaping the genomes of ancient populations, selection pressure allowed individuals to adapt to local environments and stressors. Well-known examples include thalassemia and sickle cell disease, which offered protection against malaria in Mediterranean and African populations, respectively. More recently, variations in the lactase gene have been identified among populations with a long histor...

With the recent globalization of industrial products, there is doubt as to whether the methodology of Physiological Anthropology has also been standardized. The purpose of this study is to assess signs of standardization through a comparative analysis of Physiological Anthropology design in Germany and Japan. This survey investigates its characteristics through four factors: comfort, usability,...

The authors present examples of how anthropologists are presently using computers to advance ethnographic research in new directions while building on what has come before. All the methods, protocols and tools created by the authors are free, open source, and available on the internet. The contributions are the authors’ attempts to address greater complexity through greater ‘control’ over the d...

Anthropology of Sleep Carol M. Worthman Anthropology aims to document and understand the full sweep of human diversity. As such, an anthropological account of sleep should include evolutionary, comparative, and descriptive cultural and biobehavioral evidence about the what, why, and so what of this most common of behaviors. Yet the account is incomplete because anthropology, so concerned with p...

This HOPE minisymposium has been prompted by a question I have been asking friends in anthropology for some time now, namely, where are the writers who are revisiting and rethinking the history of economic anthropology? Lest one wonders if this question asks for something that no one wants, or else is hopelessly naive, let me quickly add that, in stark contrast to economics, anthropology has we...