So-called 'diseases of lifestyle' are playing a major role in epidemiological transitions in many developing countries. Stratifying, urbanizing, and ageing African populations face rising levels of non-communicable diseases (NCDs). This article examines the need for anthropological perspectives on the causes, prevention, and control of NCDs, such as diabetes and hypertension, in Africa. Anthrop...

From an international viewpoint, the physiological anthropology had always developed in a mosaic-like structure until the end of the nineteen-sixties. Some of the pieces of the mosaic then started to create significant elements of the theoretical concepts of this science. Generally speaking, research in physiological anthropology consists of the process of individual biology and the process of ...

Intermediation approaches integration via medium, as does interdisciplinarity via field/content, while both involve concerns of methodology. "Media" are distinguished by the perceptual acts required for their constitution (cf McLuhan, 1964) by the relationship to the body which they institute. Intermediation integrates, without eliminating, multiple perceptual acts and bodily relationships. Thu...

W. Montague Cobb became the first African American to receive a doctorate in physical anthropology in the United States (1932). He was also among the first U.S. physical anthropologists to demonstrate a commitment to biocultural integration and racial equality in his research. Nonetheless, very few European American physical anthropologists responded to or utilized Cobb’s work. This continued a...

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Introduction: This paper describes collaborative relationships between anthropologists and neonatologists engaged to research prematurity in a long term study to assess health outcomes related to preterm individuals born in 1990s in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Objective: To describe how collaboration took place, considering the discussion between anthropologists and neonatologists about qualitativ...

Linguistic anthropological theories and methods have enriched our understanding of education. Almost all education is mediated by language, and linguistic anthropologists use both precise linguistic analyses and powerful anthropological theories to describe how educational language use establishes important social relations. Because educational institutions influence processes of concern to ant...

Salivary gland inclusions in the mandible are relatively uncommon in recent as well as archaeological populations. This condition is well known to oral surgeons, but less so to anthropologists, osteologists and skeletal biologists. At present a limited number of reports pertaining to this condition in ancient populations are available in anthropological and palaeopathological literature, althou...

This article explores the antagonism expressed by two different theoretical positions within medical anthropology towards the structural violence position: the culture as central approach and the post-structuralist approach. While medical anthropologists trained in cultural models of illness are disappointed by the lack of culture in the structural violence approach, medical anthropologists tra...

Back ground: The clavicle is complex bone, and is most frequently fractured bone of human skeleton. Most of the factures occur at the middle third of the shaft of the bone. The present study was done to measure in length and angles (medial and lateral angles) of clavicle. The angles of clavicle are very important for anatomists, orthopedicians, surgeons and forensic anthropologists. 60 dry clav...