Showing papers on "Biological anthropology published in 2000"
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TL;DR: In this transitional year, prominent physical anthropologists will provide brief reflections on their discipline, including what attracted them to it, and their views on the directions their discipline may pursue as the authors enter, in January 2001, the third millennium.
Abstract: EDITOR'S NOTE The year 2000 marks the onset of the 21st century. In this transitional year, prominent physical anthropologists will provide brief reflections on our discipline, including what attracted them to it, and their views on the directions our discipline may pursue as we enter, in January 2001, the third millennium. Am J Phys Anthropol 112:145–148, 2000. © 2000 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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TL;DR: Physical anthropologists will provide brief reflections on their discipline, including what attracted them to it, and their views on the directions their discipline may pursue as the authors enter, in January 2001, the third millennium.
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The year 2000 marks the onset of the 21st century. Physical anthropologists will provide brief reflections on our discipline, including what attracted them to it, and their views on the directions our discipline may pursue as we enter, in January 2001, the third millennium. Am J Phys Anthropol 111:445–449, 2000. © 2000 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that if there is something distinctive about socio-cultural anthropology in English-Canada, it is explained by political economy and that this tradition offers a better model for understanding what is or is not different about English-Canadian anthropology.
Abstract: The apparent absence of a unique national tradition of anthropology in Canada has been the subject of discussion since the 1970s. Howes (1992) proposed that, in fact, a Canadian anthropological canon can be identified and that these works share, along with Canadian culture more generally, a commitment to the principle of bicentrism. This article questions the idea that principles such as bicentrism and/or multicul-turalism are reflective of a distinctive Canadian national/popular collective will. It argues that, in English-Canada, there is a widely recognized intellectual tradition of political economy and that this tradition offers a better model for understanding what is or is not different about English-Canadian anthropology.Resume: L'apparente absence d'une tradition anthropologique nationale unique au Canada a fait l'object de discussions depuis les annees 1970. Howes (1992) a soumis I'idee qu'en fait un canon anthropologique canadien peut etre identifie et que les travaux qui en relevent partagent, en accord avec la culture canadienne en general, un engagement envers le principe du bicentrisme. Le present article remet en question l'idee que des principes tels que le bicentrisme et/ou le multicul-turalisme refletent une volonte collective populaire nationale distinctement canadienne. Il soutient qu'au Canada anglais, il y a une tradition intellectuelle d"economie politique largement reconnue, et que cette tradition offre un meilleur modele pour comprendre ce qui est ou ce qui n'est pas different en anthropologie canadienne anglaise.IntroductionWhether or not Canada has its own national tradition of anthropology has been a subject of discussion since at least the 1970s. Recent efforts (Darnell, 1998) to trace the history of the discipline in Canada have enriched our knowledge of the development of the institutional bases of Canadian anthropology but have not identified a distinctive intellectual or theoretical anthropological tradition that reflects or expresses a unique Canadian culture. To date the most explicit effort to specify a distinctive Canadian anthropological paradigm is Howes' (1992) proposal that canonical Canadian anthro- pological writings express the principle of bicentrism.In this paper I engage Howes' argument about the relationship between a distinctive Canadian culture and the tradition of Canadian anthropology. Since the specific objects of study in physical anthropology, linguistic anthropology, linguistic anthropology and archaeology are diverse, and anthropology in Quebec is different from the rest of the country, for the sake of clarity of focus I concentrate on socio-cultural anthropology in English-Canada. In contrast to Howes' argument that the Canadian anthropological tradition is shaped by and reflective of the principles embedded in the constitution of the federal Canadian state, I posit that if there is something distinctive about socio-cultural anthropology in English-Canada it is explained by political economy. Indeed, political economy is one intellectual field where there is a widely recognized, unique English-Canadian theoretical paradigm. The issues of concern within this particular approach help us understand both what may be different about English-Canadian socio- cultural anthropology and the politico-economic structures that work against the emergence or recognition of a clearly defined national tradition.State, Nation, and Culture in CanadaDiscussing the concepts of a national culture and a national tradition of anthropological research is fraught with potential complications because both depend on the idea that there is a distinct nation which could generate a national tradition. While it is true that nationalism has been a powerful force in world history in the last two centuries, in many cases the existence of a national culture can be, and often is, contested. If a nation is an "imagined community" (Anderson, 1991), there are many states that are not yet nations. …
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TL;DR: In this transistional year, prominent physical anthropologists will provide brief reflections on their discipline, including what attracted them to it, and their views on the directions their discipline may pursue as the authors enter, in January 2001, the third millennium.
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The year 2000 marks the onset of the 21st century. In this transistional year, prominent physical anthropologists will provide brief reflections on our discipline, including what attracted them to it, and their views on the directions our discipline may pursue as we enter, in January 2001, the third millennium. Am J Phys Anthropol 111:1–4, 2000. © 2000 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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TL;DR: In this transitional year, prominent physical anthropologists will provide brief reflections on their discipline, including what attracted them to it, and their views on the directions their discipline may pursue as the authors enter, in January 2001, the third millennium.
Abstract: EDITOR'S NOTE The year 2000 marks the onset of the 21(st) century. In this transitional year, prominent physical anthropologists will provide brief reflections on our discipline, including what attracted them to it, and their views on the directions our discipline may pursue as we enter, in January 2001, the third millennium. Copyright 2000 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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TL;DR: Exploring Medical Anthropology: A Critical Perspective by Hans A. Baer and Ida Susser.
Abstract: Exploring Medical Anthropology. Donald Joralemon. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1999. xiv+ 158pp.
Medical Anthropology and the World System:. Critical Perspective. Hans A. Baer. Merrill Singer. and Ida Susser. Westport, CT: Bergin and Garvey, 1997. + 276 pp.
Understanding and Applying Medical Anthropology. Peter J. Brown. ed. Mountain View, CA. Mayfield, 1998. xii. 451 pp.
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TL;DR: Although almost all individual specimens revealed interesting morphological features while appearing to fall within the type referred to as Mongoloid, a generalization of past Philippine populations is still premature, considering the fact that there is a need for more of these kinds of investigation to expand the database.
Abstract: Archaeological investigations employing the methods of physical anthropology and the biological sciences have been done on Philippine human remains found in archaeological sites to reconstruct a working biological picture of past populations. These were characterized mostly as to the number of individuals in the site, age at death, stature, bodily deformities, cultural practice and anatomic affinity to other populations. Although almost all individual specimens revealed interesting morphological features while appearing to fall within the type referred to as Mongoloid, a generalization of past Philippine populations is still premature, considering the fact that there is a need for more of these kinds of investigation to expand the database.
TL;DR: Physical anthropologists will provide brief reflections on their discipline, including what attracted them to it, and their views on the directions their discipline may pursue as the authors enter, in January 2001, the third millennium.
Abstract: EDITOR's NOTE The year 2000 marks the onset of the 21rst century. Physical anthropologists will provide brief reflections on our discipline, including what attracted them to it, and their views on the directions our discipline may pursue as we enter, in January 2001, the third millennium.
TL;DR: The year 2000 marks the onset of the 21st century and prominent physical anthropologists will provide brief reflections on their discipline, including what attracted them to it, and their views on the directions their discipline may pursue as it enters the third millennium.
Abstract: The year 2000 marks the onset of the 21st century. In this transitional year, prominent physical anthropologists will provide brief reflections on our discipline, including what attracted them to it, and their views on the directions our discipline may pursue as we enter, in January 2001, the third millennium.
TL;DR: The year 2000 marks the onset of the 21st century and several prominent physical anthropologists will provide brief reflections on their discipline, including what attracted them to it, and their views on the directions our discipline may pursue as we enter, in January 2001, the third millennium as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: EDITOR'S NOTE The year 2000 marks the onset of the 21st century. In this transitional year, prominent physical anthropologists will provide brief reflections on our discipline, including what attracted them to it, and their views on the directions our discipline may pursue as we enter, in January 2001, the third millennium. Am J Phys Anthropol 112:291–295, 2000. © 2000 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
TL;DR: This has been an exciting year inbiological anthropology, but it seems to me that anthro-pologists have yet to address the con-sequences of the most striking, imme-diate and possibly the most dangerous development of the year, the discovery that the ice caps at the earth's poles are melting much more rapidly than thought, but that can be for the next update.
Abstract: This has been an exciting year inbiological anthropology, what with"Out of Africa" proved and then dis-proved and then proved and then dis-proved again in a regular and increas-ingly predictable way. There is newheadway in how animal and human be-havior is interpreted, resuscitation ofsome old human origins theories, andnew discoveries of various fossils.Also, race continues to play a major rolein anthropological debates of all kinds,as it has for the entire history of our pro-fession. Even as I write, the mystery ofwho financed the mass mailing to mostanthropologists of a "scientific-appear-ing" inflammatory book on race by J.Philippe Rushton is being investigated.However, it seems to me that anthro-pologists have yet to address the con-sequences of the most striking, imme-diate and possibly the most dangerousdevelopment of the year, the discoverythat the ice caps at the earth's poles aremelting much more rapidly thanthought, but that can be for the nextupdate.I have reviewed several current is-sues here, reflecting both the state ofbiological anthropology and the state ofits integration within anthropology. Inmany ways these are related, becausebiological anthropology is not a kind ofsecond rate biology. When it is good,and it can be very good, it is good sci-ence and good anthropology. When itis practiced outside of anthropology,however, biological anthropology canbe anything from misleading to silly(se e th evolutionar y psycholog sec-tion below), and in today's politicallandscape this can be perilous, as eventhe eminent Stephen Jay Gould haslearned to his regret.Do chimpanzees have culture?