New directions in biocultural anthropology. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: [edited by] Molly K. Zuckerman and Debra L. Martin.
• Editors: Zuckerman, Molly K; Martin, Debra L
• Contents: A biocultural tribute to a biocultural scholar: Professor George J. Armelagos, May 22, 1936-May 15, 2014 / Debra L Martin, Molly K Zuckerman -- Introduction: the development of biocultural perspectives in anthropology / Molly K Zuckerman, Debra L Martin -- Critical and synthetic approaches to biocultural anthropology. Exploring biocultural concepts: anthropology for the next generation / R Brooke Thomas -- Local nutrition in global contexts: critical biocultural perspectives on the nutrition transition in Mexico / Thomas L Leatherman, Morgan K Hoke, Alan H Goodman -- Biocultural approaches to identity. Disease and dying while black: how racism, not race, gets under the skin / Alan H Goodman -- Beyond genetic race: biocultural insights into the causes of racial health disparities / Christopher W Kuzawa, Clarence C Gravlee -- Political economy of African forced migration and enslavement in colonial New York: an historical biology perspective / Michael L Blakey, Lesley M Rankin-Hill -- Identifying the First African Baptist Church: searching for historically invisible people / Lesley M Rankin-Hill -- Biocultural approaches to health and diet. "Canaries in the mineshaft" : the children of Kulubnarti / Paul A Sandberg, Dennis P Gerven -- Biocultural investigations of ancient Nubia / Brenda J Baker -- Life and death in nineteenth-century Peoria, Illinois: taking a biocultural approach towards understanding the past / Anne L Grauer, Laura A Williams, M Catherine Bird -- Does industrialization always result in reduced skeletal robusticity? / Ann L Magennis, Joshua GS Clementz -- Stable isotopes and selective forces: examples in biocultural and environmental anthropology / Christine D White, Fred J Longstaffe -- The cuisine of prehispanic Central Mexico reconsidered: the "omnivore's dilemma" revisited / Randolph J Widmer, Rebecca Storey -- Biocultural approaches to infectious disease. The specter of Ebola: epidemiologic transitions versus the zombie apocalypse / Ronald Barrett -- Beyond the differential diagnosis: new approaches to the bioarchaeology of the Hittite plague / Nicole E Smith-Guzman, Jerome C Rose, Kathleen Kuckens -- Paleoepidemiological and biocultural approaches to ancient disease: the origin and antiquity of syphilis / Molly K Zuckerman, Kristin N Harper -- Biocultural approaches to understanding population dynamics. Population and disease transitions in the land Islands, Finland / James H Mielke -- The hygiene hypothesis and the second epidemiologic transition: using biocultural, epidemiological, and evolutionary theory to inform practice in clinical medicine and public health / Molly K Zuckerman, Jonathan R Belanich, George J Armelagos -- An emerging history of indigenous Caribbean and circum-Caribbean populations: insights from archaeological, ethnographic, genetic, and historical studies / Theodore G Schurr, Jada Benn Torres, Miguel G Vilar, Jill B Gaieski, Carlalynne Melendez -- Explorations in paleodemography: an overview of the Artificial Long House Valley agent-based modeling project / Alan C Swedlund, Lisa Sattenspiel, Amy Warren, Richard S Meindl, George J Gumerman -- Biocultural approaches to inequality and violence. Biocultural perspectives in bioarchaeology / Bethany L Turner, Haagen D Klaus -- The poetics of violence in bioarchaeology: Integrating social theory with trauma analysis / Ventura R Perez -- Broken bodies and broken bones: Biocultural approaches to ancient slavery and torture / Debra L Martin, Anna J Osterholtz -- The next generation. Concluding thoughts: a bright future for students trained in using a biocultural perspective / Debra L Martin, Molly K Zuckerman.
• Publisher Details: Hoboken, New Jersey : John Wiley & Sons
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 599.9; Physical anthropology; NATURE / Animals / Mammals; SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Zoology / Mammals; Physical anthropology; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781118962954; 1118962958; 9781118962947
• Related ISBNs: 111896294X; 9781118962961; 1118962966; 111896294X; 9781118962930; 1118962931
• Notes: Note: Print version record.
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