Gray Hair and Emotional States; an Anthropological Note

Aging and dementia: more gray hair and less gray matter.

Gray Hair, Silver Linings, and the WDS

“Gray Hair and Silver Linings”was an editorial by Frank Bruni published in The New York Times on Sunday, November 9, 2014. As my hair is silver and my 65 birthday is in the rear view mirror, I read this article with great interest and downloaded it for future reference. The author recounted a “wake-up” episode he experienced in the waiting room of a dermatologic surgeon anticipating the removal...

The Pattern of Hair Dyeing in Koreans with Gray Hair

BACKGROUND Hair graying is considered as a part of normal ageing process. Nonetheless, this process raises a significant cosmetic concern, especially among ethnic Korean elderly whose baseline hair color is black. For this reason, Korean elderly dye their hair with frequency despite the risk of dermatologic problems such as allergic contact dermatitis. OBJECTIVE In this study, the authors inv...

Christmas: An anthropological lens

Why does the festival of Christmas appear to be expanding worldwide while other festivals decline? Why do people emphasize their local rituals, given this is a global festival? Is this a religious festival whose values have been destroyed by materialism? What is the relationship between this family celebratory meal and the divine family to which it pays obeisance? These seemed to be questions t...

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...