Forensic anthropology is the discipline that traditionally deals with the examination of human remains for legal purposes and it derives from the fields of anatomy, physical anthropology and forensic medicine. For more than a century, forensic anthropologists in the United States have been offering their services in the court of law complementing the medico-legal investigation of other forensic...

In this essay we argue that the key barriers to interdisciplinary work between economists and anthropologists are differences of methodology and epistemology -in what the two disciplines consider important to explain, and how they evaluate the criteria for a good explanation. The essay is an introduction to three papers, on economics, anthropology, and the question of the commons, that illustra...

Paleoanthropology emerged as a science during the late nineteenth century. The discovery of prehistoric artifacts in Pleistocene deposits soon led to the excavation of fossilized human bones. The archaeologists and geologists who unearthed them were primarily concerned with determining whether the human fossils and the artifacts found with them actually dated from the Pleistocene, thus offering...

To study the structure of Iranian chemistry research, we identified 43 Iranian and international chemists who were highly cited in 7,682 Iranian chemistry publications (defined as an article with at least one Iranian author address) indexed in Science Citation Index (SciSearch) between 1990 and 2006, inclusive. We collected cocitation data for these authors from the entire SciSearch file (Dialo...

Human beings have never encountered as many photographs we do today. They surround us in public spaces, and populate the numerous screens access our daily lives. Anthropologists are working to understand social cultural ramifications of this ubiquitous photography on societies throughout globe. This entry examines work anthropologists done on, with, photography. It surveys conclusions reached a...