Nursing in the Western world developed mainly as an applied field, and has contributed to social-cultural theory only in the past 30 years. The purpose of this presentation is to document (a) the contributions of nursing to medical anthropology, (b) the influence anthropology has had on nursing, (c) the differences between the interface of nursing and anthropology and that of medicine and anthr...

a School of Anthropology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, U.S.A. b Department of Comparative and Developmental Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany c Center for Applied Genomics and Precision Medicine, Duke University, Durham, NC, U.S.A. d Evolutionary Anthropology, Duke University, Durham, NC, U.S.A. e Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Duke Unive...

Ecological interests in anthropology date back to the 1930s or earlier, but some work in anthropology is based on the natural history and population biology of Charles Darwin. Anthropology, as a science made up of diverse subfields, has selectively incorporated ecological principals and knowledge over the years. Incorporation of ecological ideas has been hampered by cyclic paradigm shifts in th...

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A Guide to Internet Resources in Anthropology (Plattsburgh State University of New York). A large and well-organized site with links to numerous cultural anthropology sites, physical anthropology and linguistics resources on the web, archaeological sites/digs and web resources, e-journals, organizations, museums, and email discussion listservs. http://faculty.plattsburgh.edu/richard.robbins/leg...

This article is a critical review of the last 20 years of the development of visual anthropology in the United States and United Kingdom. It is argued that there are three approaches to the field – visual anthropology as ethnographic film, as the cultural study of pictorial media and as an inclusive anthropology of visual communication. The development and expansion of scholarly journals, train...

Classical cognitive science was launched on the premise that the architecture of human cognition is uniform and universal across the species. This premise is biologically impossible and is being actively undermined by, for example, imaging genomics. Anthropology (including archaeology, biological anthropology, linguistics, and cultural anthropology) is, in contrast, largely concerned with the d...

The methodology of physiological anthropology has been defined in the capacity of an independent academic field by five keywords: environmental adaptability, technological adaptability, physiological polymorphism, whole-body coordination and functional potentiality, clearly suggesting the direction of approach to human beings in the field of physiological anthropology. Recently, these keywords ...

The beginnings of medical anthropology in the Netherlands have a ‘xenophile’ character in two respects. First, those who started to call themselves medical anthropologists in the 1970s and 1980s were influenced and inspired not so much by anthropological colleagues, but by medical doctors working in tropical countries who had shown an interest in the role of culture during their medical work. S...

In the 1960s, U.S. physical anthropology underwent a period of introspection that marked a change from the old physical anthropology that was largely race based to the new physical anthropology, espoused by Washburn and others for over a decade, which incorporated the evolutionary biology of the modern synthesis. What actually changed? What elements of the race concept have been rejected, and w...