Photographic supra-projection (Iscan, 1993) is a forensic process that consists of comparing photographs or video shots of a missing person with the skull that is found. By projecting both photographs on top of each other (or, even better, matching a scanned three-dimensional skull model against the face photo/video shot), the forensic anthropologist can try to establish whether that is the sam...

But I cannot resist one comment. It is unusual when a distinguished scholar in his 80s dies peacefully, a man acknowledged throughout the world not only as the father of Indian anthropology, but in the words of one of my colleagues "the world's greatest anthropologist", a man who has been intellectual father, teacher, guide, and as James Manor put it, "my only guru" to so many, a man whose life...

This article is a critical review of the last 20 years of the development of visual anthropology in the United States and United Kingdom. It is argued that there are three approaches to the field – visual anthropology as ethnographic film, as the cultural study of pictorial media and as an inclusive anthropology of visual communication. The development and expansion of scholarly journals, train...

In this journal addressed mainly to archaeologists, historians and anthropologist, a survey of today’s state of the art on (ethno)mathematics writt en by a mathematician may be appropriate. Indeed, even in the 21st century, the prejudice persists mathematical activity was completely lacking in Africa, despite the many publications, conferences and lectures on the topic. However, (ethno)-mathema...

In his celebrated book, The Meanings of Macho (1992), anthropologist Matthew C. Gutmann explores the changing character of masculinity in Mexico City. Buffeted by economic crisis in the late 1980s, middleclass men and women increasingly had to pool personal incomes to support families. Unable to sustain long-held patriarchal expectations, men made virtue out of necessity. “Women are becoming in...

sciences, maths and physics, than with the "human" aspects of the sciences which directly concern daily experience and the quality of life. Furthermore, the contributors are literary critics and historians, not scientists proper. Though this book is essentially a project initiated by the Humanities Faculty, it should be of wider interest. Its strength is its diversity; while the editors hanker ...

This book is a compilation of different stories that explore common theme: the complex relation between meto (the indigenous/familiar) and kase (foreign) modes life in enclave Oecussi, Timor-Leste. Written by anthropologist Michael Rose, draws on author’s experience region initially as United Nations (UN) advisor later researcher. The meto/kase relationship discussed context dynamics at play hi...