Author: Christopher Stojanowski
Publisher: University Alabama Press
Keywords: perspective, bioarchaeological, florida, histories, biocultural
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2006-01-28
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0817352678
ISBN-13: 9780817352677

Indigenous populations respond to colonial expansion.   This book examines the effects of the Spanish mission system on population structure and genetic variability in indigenous communities living in northern Florida and southern Georgia during the 16th and 17th centuries. Data on tooth size were collected from 26 archaeological samples representing three time periods:  Late Precontact (~1200-1500), Early Mission (~1600-1650), and Late Mission (~1650-1700) and were subjected to a series of statistical tests evaluating genetic variability. Predicted changes in phenotypic population variabi

Authors:Katherine Dettwyler, Patricia Stuart-Macadam,
Publisher: Aldine Transactio
Keywords: perspectives, biocultural, breastfeeding
Number of Pages: 430
Published: 1995-12-31
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 0202011925
ISBN-13: 9780202011929

Breastfeeding is a biocultural phenomenon: not only is it a biological process, but it is also a culturally determined behavior. As such, it has important implications for understanding the past, present, and future condition of our species. In general, scholars have emphasized either the biological or the cultural aspects of breastfeeding, but not both. As biological anthropologists the editors of this volume feel that an evolutionary approach combining both aspects is essential. One of the goals of their book is to incorporate data from diverse fields to present a more holistic view of breas

Authors:Marquard Smith, Joanne Morra,
Publisher: The MIT Press
Keywords: biocultural, future, present, posthuman, impulse, prosthetic
Number of Pages: 307
Published: 2005-12-16
List price: $37.95
ISBN-10: 0262195305
ISBN-13: 9780262195300

Prosthesis—pointing to an addition, replacement, extension, enhancement—has become something of an all-purpose metaphor for the interactions of body and technology. Concerned with cybernetics, transplant technology, artificial intelligence, and virtual reality, among other cultural and scientific developments, "the prosthetic" conjures up a posthuman condition. In response to this, the 13 original essays in The Prosthetic Impulse reassert the phenomenological, material, and embodied nature of prosthesis without dismissing its metaphorical potential. They examine the historical and conceptu

Author: Andrea S. Wiley
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: studies, medical, anthropology, cambridge, perspective, altitude, infancy, biocultural, ecology
Number of Pages: 270
Published: 2004-03-22
List price: $34.99
ISBN-10: 0521536820
ISBN-13: 9780521536820

Highlighting the roles of ecology, culture, history, and political economy, this book considers how the unique mountain ecology and socio-cultural patterns of the Himalayan region of Ladakh contribute to a peculiar pattern of infant mortality. It stresses the burdens of women’s work in this region as crucial to birth outcome. An example of a new genre of anthropological work called "ethnographic human biology," this study utilizes the methodology of human biology but strongly emphasizes the ethnographic context that provides meaning for human biological measures.

Author: Maryann S. Bates
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Keywords: populations, ethnic, series, medical, anthropology, multi, treatment, dimensions, chronic, pain, implications, biocultural
Number of Pages: 205
Published: 1996-01
List price: $50.50
ISBN-10: 0791427358
ISBN-13: 9780791427354

Based on qualitative and quantitative studies in the United States and Puerto Rico, this book demonstrates the significant effects of patients’ and health providers’ethnic and cultural backgrounds on the chronic pain experience. A biocultural model from medical anthropologyis used to contribute to a better understanding of the interaction of biology and culture in human pain perception. In the studies described, the factors most often associated with successful adjustment to chronic pain are not biomedical but cultural, psychosocial, or the cultural, political, and economic context

Author: Holger Schutkowski
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: human, ecological, studies, communities, adaptations, ecology, biocultural
Number of Pages: 305
Published: 2006-02-10
List price: $189.00
ISBN-10: 3540260854
ISBN-13: 9783540260851

The human condition is composed of culturally mediated biology, and this inherently dual nature is key to our understanding of human/environment interaction. Human Ecology provides a fresh view on the interrelationship between cultural strategies and their biological outcomes. It combines for the first time an ecosystems approach with cultural anthropological, archaeological and evolutionary behavioural concepts. Taking resource use and food procurement behaviour as the starting point, the volume examines major subsistence modes, the circumstances and dynamics of large-scale subsistence change

Author: Douglas E. Crews
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: evolutionary, studies, biological, cambridge, anthropology, perspectives, senescence, biocultural, human
Number of Pages: 302
Published: 2004-01-12
List price: $165.99
ISBN-10: 0521571731
ISBN-13: 9780521571739

Combining anthropological, gerontological and biocultural evidence, this study explores how humans came to grow old as slowly as they do, and what impacts this has had on their health and lives. It is only comparatively recent that humans have developed late-life survival, but much of the research on senescence is based on isolated cells, worms, and fruit flies, which may be only of peripheral relevance to human aging.