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 ...

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...

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...

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...

The article presents a review by a quantitative analysis of the forensic anthropology cases that occurred in Uruguay from 1950 to 2013. Forensic anthropology cases have rapidly increased in Uruguay over the years, from only one case in 1950 to 91 cases in 2013. Before 1992, when human remains were found, they were analyzed by the local medical examiner with lacked experience in these types of c...

In his plenary session entitled Five Questions on the Future, Harvard anthropologist Arthur Kleinman capitalized on the 2009 Society for Medical Anthropology Conference's theme of Medical Anthropology at the Intersections to speculate on the future of the discipline.

The impetus for this forum was the recent publication in Japan of the volume Genjitsu Hihan no Jinruigaku (Anthropology as critique of reality) edited by Professor Naoki Kasuga. In the Japanese context, this volume represents the emergent interest in what has come to be called the “the ontological turn” in Euro-American anthropology. This forum offers a depiction of the anthropological genealog...

Keith W. Kintigh, Jeffrey H. Altschul, Mary C. Beaudry, Robert D. Drennan, Ann P. Kinzig, Timothy A. Kohler, W. Fredrick Limp, Herbert D. G. Maschner, William K. Michener , Timothy R. Pauketat, Peter Peregrine, Jeremy A. Sabloff, Tony J. Wilkinson, Henry T. Wright, and Melinda A. Zeder School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287; Statistical Research, ...

Although holism has long been a central theme in anthropology, current perception is that anthropological discourse is being pulled apart along its biologyculture seams. Despite reservations among sociocultural theorists, Darwinism remains the only body of theory that purports to link sub-disciplines of anthropology. The importance of holism in anthropology is reconciled here with disciplinary ...