Academic Articles & Research Papers

Advances in genetics

Advances in Genetics provides the latest information on the rapidly evolving field of genetics, presenting new medical breakthroughs that are occurring as a result of advances in our knowledge of the topic. The book continually publishes im...

The Genetics of Eating Disorders

Over the past decade, considerable advances have been made in understanding genetic influences on eating pathology. Eating disorders aggregate in families, and twin studies reveal that additive genetic factors account for approximately 40% ...

Nature Reviews Genetics

The Rise of Anthropological Theory

With the agreement of author and publisher, pre-publication copies of The Rise of Anthropological Theory (New York: Crowell, 1968) were sent for review to 25 scholars. Of these, the followingf responded in time for their reviews to be inclu...

World Anthropologies: Anthropological Cosmopolitanisms and Cosmopolitics

To present the world anthropologies project (WA), this article explores the existence of three kinds of anthropological cosmopolitanisms and cosmopolitics: imperial, liberal, and radical. Imperial cosmopolitics reproduces the hegemony of th...

The Anthropology of Christianity

Abstract This article surveys the literature that constitutes the newly emergent anthropology of Christianity. Arguing that the development of this sub‐discipline was impeded until recently by anthropology's theoretical framing and empirica...

The Anthropologies of Illness and Sickness

ion. [In this connection, see analogous arguments by Navarro (126) and Assennato & Navarro (7, pp. 224--30) on the social production of knowledge of occupational medicine, and Latour & Woolgar (102) on the social production of biomedical kn...

Adolescence: an anthropological inquiry

The anthropological study of adolescence -- An ethological approach to human social organization -- Looking at adolescent socialization across cultures -- Adolescents and their families -- Peer groups and community participation -- Marriage...

Anthropology and Voice

Voice is both a set of sonic, material, and literary practices shaped by culturally and historically specific moments and a category invoked in discourse about personal agency, communication and representation, and political power. This rev...

WITTGENSTEIN AND ANTHROPOLOGY

▪ Abstract This essay explores the theme of Wittgenstein as a philosopher of culture. The primary text on which the essay is based is Philosophical Investigations; it treats Stanley Cavell's work as a major guide for the understanding and r...

An Introduction to Anthropology

The Anthropology of Online Communities

▪ Abstract Information and communication technologies based on the Internet have enabled the emergence of new sorts of communities and communicative practices—phenomena worthy of the attention of anthropological researchers. Despite early a...

Recapturing anthropology: working in the present

Anthropology: An introduction to the study of man and civilization.

Anahuac: Or Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern [1861] 392pp Researches into the Early History of Mankind and the Development of Civilization [1865]386pp Primitive Culture [1871]468pp/436pp (2 volumes) Anthropology: An Introduction ...

Phenomenological Approaches in Anthropology

This review explores the most significant dimensions and findings of phenomenological approaches in anthropology. We spell out the motives and implications inherent in such approaches, chronicle their historical dimensions and precursors, a...

The anthropology of globalization: cultural anthropology enters the 21st century

Preface Introduction: Who Is Alma? Globalizing Anthropology Slouching Toward Globalization The Anthropology of Globalization Development, Devolution, and Discourse Constructing Identity Globalization and Migration Migration: People on the M...

Social Anthropology of Technology

At the onset of the 20th century, anthropologists such as Balfour, Marett, and Haddon could readily identify three spheres of strength in anthropological research: material culture, social organization, and physical anthropology (49). The s...

The Anthropology of Food and Eating

▪ Abstract The study of food and eating has a long history in anthropology, beginning in the nineteenth century with Garrick Mallery and William Robertson Smith. This review notes landmark studies prior to the 1980s, sketching the history o...

Design and Anthropology

In this review, I examine the recent turn to design in anthropology in three different configurations: anthropology of design, anthropology for design, and design for anthropology. Although these three configurations represent different cut...

The Anthropology of Emotions

Interest in has burgeoned in the last decade, not only in anthropology, but in psychology (e.g. 5, 77,113, 141), sociology (e.g. 72, 81), philosophy (e.g. 153, 177), history (e.g. 180), and feminist studies (e.g. 176). A concern to understa...