Provides a sociological explanation of how menses can play an important role in the way of living of a society. It comes alive socially and makes its presence felt in the cultural realm in the form of rituals at menarche, taboos and restrictions throughout one’s menstrual life, the gendered meanings that are constructed as a result of the following of such taboos, and the variety of treatments ...

Scientists' perceptions of their discipline clearly influence how they frame their research agenda. Seeing bioarchaeology as anthropology profoundly affects the problems that capture one's interest, the questions that one seeks to answer, and the methods one uses to resolve them. Bioarchaeology as anthropology reaffirms a worldview that incorporates an intradisciplinary biocultural approach wit...

In my 2006 presidential address on “Medical Anthropology at the Intersections,” I attempted to convey all of my high hopes for medical anthropology in the new millennium (Inhorn 2007). We are nearly 50 years old as a discipline, and we are on the verge of numerous, exciting intersections with multiple fields. At the 2007 meeting, I announced our plans for the first independent Society for Medic...

Department of Evolutionary Anthropology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708, USA Department of Anthropology, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405-7100, USA Office of Underwater Science, School of Health, Physical Education and Recreation, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405, USA William Hammond Mathers Museum, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47408-3812, ...

^Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Box 2072, Balboa, Republic of Panama ^Archaeobiology Program, Department of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC 20560, USA ^Department of Anthropology, Peabody Museum, Harvard University, 11 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02130, USA ^Institute of Archaeology, University of Haifa, Mount Carm...

From the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School (A.E.B., A.K.), and the Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital (A.E.B.) — both in Boston; and the Department of Anthropology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (A.K.). Address reprint requests to Dr. Kleinman at the Department of Anthropology, Harvard University, William James Hall, 33 Kirkland St...

DAN T.A. EISENBERG,* KLELIA D. SALPEA, CHRISTOPHERW. KUZAWA, M. GEOFFREY HAYES, AND STEVE E. HUMPHRIES ON BEHALF OF THE EUROPEAN ATHEROSCLEROSIS RESEARCH STUDY II GROUP Department of Anthropology, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois Cells 2 Society: The Center for Social Disparities and Health, Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois Centre for Cardiov...