1Department of Anthropology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 2Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China 3Texas Archaeological Research Lab, University of Texas, Austin, Texas 4Desert Research Institute, Reno, NV 5Department of Anthropology, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri 6Institut de Physique...

Parkinson's disease (PD) is the second most common progressive neurodegenerative brain disorder after Alzheimer's disease. Due to the complex etiology of PD, there is possibility that single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) in PARKIN gene could be associated with the disease and lead to the pathogenesis by genoenvironmental interactions. Role of PARKIN polymorphisms as risk factors varies in diff...

Questo paper presenta i primi esiti di un progetto di ricerca ancora in corso che mira a esplorare nuove forme di scrittura e rappresentazione etnografica. In particolare, la diffusione di tecnologie e pratiche di geo-tagging ha consentito di creare una piattaforma mediale plurale, in cui le tante soggettività che hanno osservato un complesso rituale funerario Bororo (nel Mato Grosso brasiliano...

a C.R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, IL 61801, USA b Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, IL 61801, USA c Department of Human Biology, J. Craig Venter Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA d Department of Anthropology, Northwestern University, Evanston, USA e Department of Animal and Range Sciences, Montana State...

1 Department of Anthropology, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA, 2 Department of Geology, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA, 3 Department of Anthropology, Washington University, Saint Louis, MO, USA, 4 Department of Anthropology, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA, 5 Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, NM, USA, 6 School of Natural Science, University of California, Merced, Me...

Emiko Namihira gained her MA from Kyushu University (Japan) and PhD from The University of Texas at Austin (USA) in anthropology. About 40 years of Namihira’s career in teaching and research in anthropology has been experienced in four Japanese universities. She has been engaged in anthropological field work in many areas in Japan since 1964. Her specific themes of anthropology are medicine, an...

Despite the fact that anthropology in Poland faces the same crisis as anthropology worldwide, namely, the disappearance of the traditional subjects of interest, it still maintains, a unique theoretical and methodological perspective, the main points of which are: holism, qualitative methods, methodical skepticism and a focus on the primacy of culture. This approach also appears to be useful in ...