Although anthropology is often associated with studies of small-scale societies, traditional cultures or arcane customs, this article argues that anthropology is first and foremost a way of thinking that can be applied to any aspect of human life. As such, it is complementary to and a useful supplement to other human sciences such as psychology and economics. Anthropology distinguishes itself b...

Culture consists of shared cognitive representations in the minds of individuals. This paper investigates the extent to which English speakers share the "same" semantic structure of English kinship terms. The semantic structure is defined as the arrangement of the terms relative to each other as represented in a metric space in which itemsjudged more similar are placed closer to each other than...

Comparative morphology, dealing with the diversity of form and shape, and functional morphology, the study of the relationship between the structure and the function of an organism's parts, are both important subdisciplines in biological research. Virtual anthropology (VA) contributes to comparative morphology by taking advantage of technological innovations, and it also offers new opportunitie...

This article reviews some of the current writing on medical anthropology, and is guided by political orientation/ implication in the choice of its study targets, its analysis and its construction of solutions for the problems investigated. Starting from the narratives of anthropologists, it goes on to show the historical and socio-political bases characteristic of the subject in their countries...

Growing concerns about anthropology’s impact in both academia and the broader social arena have led to calls for more “public” and more relevant anthropology. In this article, we expand on these exhortations, by calling for systematic joining of critical social theory with application and pragmatic engagement with contemporary problems. We argue for the repositioning of applied anthropology as ...

Traditionally, methodology within forensic anthropology has involved very basic techniques of measurement, observation and interpretation. Rooted in the academic fields of anatomy and physical anthropology, forensic anthropology has grown to address problems of recovery, determination of species, estimation of age at death, sex, ancestry, stature, postmortem interval, and the evaluation of evid...

Anthropology is a branch of science that studies human behavior, biology, cultures, communities, and linguistics in the present past, including past species. Cultural anthropology explores cultural meaning, norms values, while social patterns behavior. Linguistic study how language affects Biological or physical humans' biological development. Archaeological anthropology, also known as 'past an...

Introduction Clifford Geertz is one of the most celebrated anthropologists in twentieth-century anthropology. Starting his career in the late nineteen-fifties, he represented the American branch of symbolic anthropology, also known as interpretive anthropology. Geertz’s work continues to influence present-day authors, even after anthropology shifted to different topics than those lying within t...

FRANK P. CUOZZO*, BRIAN R. HEAD, MICHELLE L. SAUTHER, PETER S. UNGAR, AND M. TEAGUE O’MARA Department of Anthropology, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, North Dakota Department of Anthropology, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado Department of Anthropology, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas Department of Biology & Zukunftskolleg, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germa...