The use of genetic methods and data has a long history in anthropology. Following dramatic growth in anthropological genetic field studies in the 1960s and 1970s, the revolution in molecular genetic methods during the 1980~spurred another period of growth and expansion. The earlier emphasis on examination of the role of alternative evolutionary mechanisms in structuring allele frequency variati...

This is a brief guide, for anthropologists with some quantitative experience, to our paper Dynamical Structure of a Traditional Amazonian Social Network [1], an article by me (Simon), Paul Hooper (an anthropologist at Emory), Ann Caldwell Hooper (Anthropology, Emory), Michael Gurven (Anthropology, UC Santa Barbara) and Hilly Kaplan (Anthropology, University of New Mexico), featuring real-world ...

Anthropologists who work at the interface of psychology and anthropology are by and large committed to anthropology as science. The problem for us, however, is that the institutional development of the human sciences in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries effectively allotted different aspects of what it is to be human to different disciplines. Faced with separate epistemological ...

Social anthropology at INCAP evolved through a series of stages. The initial work in the 1950s was concerned with finding ways to make INCAP nutritional research more effective. In a second phase, emerging in the 1960s, anthropology examined the nutrition process in the population, especially as it was manifested in child care and feeding, lactation, and population growth and in the relation of...

This essay discusses the image and practice of cannibalism in a wide range of studies. It also presents the anthropological research on kuru which led to the proposal that cannibalism had enabled transmission of the infectious agent, as well as doubts about the hypothesis, and the assertion by some that cannibalism as a socially approved custom did not exist. The figure of the cannibal as an ic...