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Record Nr.

UNINA9910823768703321

Titolo

New directions in biocultural anthropology / / edited by Molly K. Zuckerman and Debra L. Martin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, New Jersey : , : Wiley-Blackwell, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

1-118-96294-X

1-118-96293-1

1-118-96295-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (537 p.)

Disciplina

599.9

Soggetti

Physical anthropology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Dedication; Contributors; Acknowledgements; A biocultural tribute to a biocultural scholar: Professor George J. Armelagos, May 22, 1936-May 15, 2014; References; Chapter 1 Introduction: the development of biocultural perspectives in anthropology; Introduction; The origins and development of the biocultural approach; Using a biocultural model; Difficulties in using the biocultural approach; The case studies in this volume; Conclusion; References; Notes; Part I Critical and synthetic approaches to biocultural anthropology

Chapter 2 Exploring biocultural concepts: anthropology for the next generationIntroduction; Background; Case study: the Quechua of southern Peru, 1964 to the present; Discussion; Conclusion; References; Notes; Endnotes; Chapter 3 Local nutrition in global contexts: critical biocultural perspectives on the nutrition transition in Mexico; Introduction; Background; Case study: the ""coca-colonization"" of diet in the Yucat[[[\'a]]]n; Conclusion; References; Notes; Part II Biocultural approaches to identity; Chapter 4 Disease and dying while black: how racism, not race, gets under the skin

IntroductionBackground; Case study: race versus racism; Discussion and conclusion; References; Chapter 5 Beyond genetic race: biocultural



insights into the causes of racial health disparities; Introduction; Background; Case study #1: hypertension in the African Diaspora; Case study #2: does the experience of racial discrimination in the United States have intergenerational health consequences?; Discussion and conclusion; References; Chapter 6 Political economy of African forced migration and enslavement in colonial New York: an historical biology perspective; Introduction; Background

Case studyDiscussion; Conclusion; References; Notes; Chapter 7 Identifying the First African Baptist Church: searching for historically invisible people; Introduction; Case study: Afro-American biohistory; Conclusion; References; Notes; Part III Biocultural approaches to health and diet; Chapter 8 ""Canaries in the mineshaft"": the children of Kulubnarti; Introduction; Case study: Nubia and Kulubnarti; Conclusion; Acknowledgments; References; Chapter 9 Biocultural investigations of ancient Nubia; Introduction; Background

Case study: operationalizing a biocultural investigation: the Bioarchaeology of Nubia ExpeditionConclusion; Acknowledgments; References; Chapter 10 Life and death in nineteenth-century Peoria, Illinois: taking a biocultural approach towards understanding the past; Introduction; Case study: life and death in nineteenth-century Peoria; Discussion; Conclusion; Acknowledgments; References; Chapter 11 Does industrialization always result in reduced skeletal robusticity?; Introduction; Background; Case study: testing ideas about robusticity and industrialization; Discussion; Conclusion

Acknowledgments