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Biological anthropology
About: Biological anthropology is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 1126 publications have been published within this topic receiving 12757 citations. The topic is also known as: biological anthropology & somatology.
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01 Jan 1962
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TL;DR: The Spanish Society of Anthropology, Ethnography and Prehistory (1921-1951) was the most imporrant Spanish anthropological institution until the Civil War as mentioned in this paper, however, it was specially interested in physical anthropology and prehistory.
Abstract: The Spanish Society of Anthropology, Ethnography and Prehistory (1921-1951) was the most imporrant Spanish anthropological institution until the Civil War~ however, it was specially interested in Physical Anthropology and Prehistory. A study is made of its historical and institutional development. We analyse too its review and the Society's relations with the «Bernardino de Sahagun» Anthropological and Ethnological Instirute.
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01 Jan 2007
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TL;DR: For 20 years, McCown was the single physical anthropologist at Berkeley and he did not allow this to isolate him from the discipline of anthropology as a whole, and he never lost sight of the fact that cultural behavior has been humankind's most important adaptation.
Abstract: Coming into a department with a long history of orientation to cultural anthropology dominated by Kroeber, Lowie, and Gifford, McCown as a young assistant professor had to create an environment for training students in his field as well as to define the goals and scope of physical anthropology. Those who have experienced the challenge of "pioneering" physical anthropology in academic departments in which cultural anthropology courses have been the traditional offerings and comrades of similar backgrounds and persuasions are few or absent can appreciate this situation in which students are not the only people on campus who need to be educated. For 20 years McCown was the single physical anthropologist at Berkeley. However, he did not allow this to isolate him from the discipline of anthropology as a whole, and he never lost sight of the fact that cultural behavior has been humankind's most important adaptation. This holistic approach is expressed in an article on the teaching of physical anthropology (McCown 1952:314):
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