An anthropological perspective on the mosque in Pakistan

An anthropological perspective on obesity.

An anthropological perspective on obesity considers both its evolutionary background and cross-cultural variation. It must explain three basic facts about obesity: gender dimorphism (women greater than men), an increase with modernization, and a positive association with socioeconomic status. Preindustrial diets varied in quality but shared a tendency to periodic shortages. Such shortages, part...

Tuberculosis: an Anthropological Perspective

Tuberculosis is a contagious and destructive disease that has plagued humans and their domesticated animals for at least 6000 years (Morse, Brothwell, and Ucko 1964), and continues to be a serious disease worldwide. Like most infectious diseases, the virulence of tuberculosis constantly fluctuates as changes occur in the host, the pathogen, and the environment. For example, in the United States...

Culture and quality: an anthropological perspective.

Exploring Liminality from an Anthropological Perspective

The transition from the real to the digital requires a shift of consciousness that can be theorised with recourse to the concept of liminality, which has multidisciplinary currency in psychology and other disciplines in the social sciences, cultural, and literary theory. In anthropology the notion of liminality was introduced by the ethnographer Arnold van Gennep in the context of the developme...

Medicine, rationality, and experience: an anthropological perspective

composed. They often consist of notes and insights. This made the editors' task even more difficult, yet it was acquitted brilliantly. Each piece is fitted into the puzzle and we can actually understand the often gnomic comments by both men. Peter Hoffer's translation is always clear and readable. This is the first volume of the Freud-Ferenczi letters. Later volume(s) will mark the decay of the...