The Dynamic North: Northern Climate Change from 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...

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...

[The ecological and civilizational crisis from an anthropological perspective].

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...

Northern high-latitude climate change

Northern high-latitude climate change between the mid and late Holocene – Part 1: Proxy data evidence H. S. Sundqvist, Q. Zhang, A. Moberg, K. Holmgren, H. Körnich, and J. Nilsson Bert Bolin Centre for Climate Research, Stockholm University, 10691 Stockholm, Sweden Department of Physical Geography and Quaternary Geology, Stockholm University, 10691 Stockholm, Sweden Department of Meteorology, S...