a Department of Anthropology, 308 Condon Hall, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403, USA b Department of Archaeology, Hakai Institute, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6, Canada c Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada d Department of Anthropology, San Diego State University, 5500 Campanile Dr., San Dieg...

Department of Theoretical Biology, University of Vienna, Althanstrasse 14, A-1090 Vienna, Austria Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Deutscher Platz 6, D-04107 Leipzig, Germany Department of Anthropology, University of Vienna, Althanstrasse 14, A-1090 Vienna, Austria Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research, Adolf Lorenz Gasse ...

In his article, "Comparative Literature as Textual Anthropology," Antony Tatlow proposes textual anthropology as a critic's approach in the comparative study of literature. If anthropology is "behavioural hermeneutics" (Clifford Geertz) with the implication of self-reflexivity, the anthropologist will be disposed to fashion in the object of attention what is neglected and that can therefore be ...

EDWIN R. WALLACE (IV), Freud and anthropology. A history and reappraisal, New York, International Universities Press, 1983, 8vo, pp. xi, 306, $22.50. No scientific discipline outside his own gave Sigmund Freud's ideas such long-sustained and critical attention as did anthropology. Conversely, no other social or behavioural science so affected Freud's thinking over the course of his long career....

For many of the contributors to this volume, theory is a method for describing preindustrial societies, rather than a set of testable propositions derived from a model. Nevertheless, a number of the essays on different societies may be of interest to comparative economists. Joseph Henrich presents a sophisticated argument against the use of cost/ benefit analysis to explain peasant agricultural...

Over the last few decades, the anthropological study of linguistic structures, genres, and activities in private and public settings has redefined the goals and boundaries of what ‘linguistics’ means for the social sciences and anthropology in particular. The ‘linguists’ in today’s anthropology departments – or ‘linguistic anthropologists’ as they are known in the United States and Canada – are...

Evolutionary anthropology provides a powerful theoretical framework for understanding how both current environments and legacies of past selection shape human behavioral diversity. This integrative and pluralistic field, combining ethnographic, demographic, and sociological methods, has provided new insights into the ultimate forces and proximate pathways that guide human adaptation and variati...

In this paper anthropology and psychiatry are defined as well as their scientific area, their methods and research objectives; the high level of their mutual thematic and methodological complementarity has been emphasized. The sociocultural factors which are inherent in the area of cultural anthropology can affect mental health in a number of ways: by forming a certain personality type that is ...

Special Articles: Chemical Basis of Fever: DR. VALY MENKIN. Teland Liver and Vitamin A Toxicity: EDWARD J. HERBST, PAUL L. PAVOEK and DR. C. A. ELVEJHEM. Exchange Reactions of Diiodotyrosine: DR. WILBUR H. MILLER, DR. GEORGE W. ANDERSON, R. K. MADISON and DR. D. J. SALLEY. Effect of Hexyl Resyrcinol on Diffusion of Chloride and Sulfate through Sintered Glass and Other Membranes: DR. ROBERT L. D...