INTRODUCTION It is exceedingly rare for medical doctors and anthropologists to sit down and exchange ideas, even about an issue as important as the global HIV/AIDS epidemic. Does that mean that anthropologists have no knowledge of value to add to the epidemiological and biomedical understanding of the epidemic? This paper asserts that, despite the general neglect of anthropology by the biomedic...

To address the subject of women and nutrition, it is necessary to work across disciplines. There is a long tradition of nutritionists and anthropologists working together in the United States, thanks to the pioneering work of Margaret Mead in this area. In Britain, the collaboration began even earlier with Audrey Richards (1932) in the 1930s. This collaboration continues today in the Economic a...

To address the subject of women and nutrition, it is necessary to work across disciplines. There is a long tradition of nutritionists and anthropologists working together in the United States, thanks to the pioneering work of Margaret Mead in this area. In Britain, the collaboration began even earlier with Audrey Richards (1932) in the 1930s. This collaboration continues today in the Economic a...