A Guide to Internet Resources in Anthropology (Plattsburgh State University of New York). A large and well-organized site with links to numerous cultural anthropology sites, physical anthropology and linguistics resources on the web, archaeological sites/digs and web resources, e-journals, organizations, museums, and email discussion listservs. http://faculty.plattsburgh.edu/richard.robbins/leg...

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*Corresponding author: [email protected] Washington University in St. Louis, Department of Anthropology, 1 Brookings Drive, St. Louis, MO 63130, USA Dartmouth College, Department of Anthropology, 6047 Silsby Hall, Hanover, NH 03755, USA 3 Case Western Reserve University, Department of Anthropology, 11220 Bellflower Road, Cleveland, OH 44106-7125, USA Oxford University, Clinical Research Unit, K...

1Department of Physical Therapy, Duquesne University, 600 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15282, USA 2Department of Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA 3Department of Anatomy, Dartmouth Medical School, HB 7100, Hanover, NH 03743, USA 4Department of Anthropology, Dartmouth College, HB 6047, Hanover, NH 03743, USA 5Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute fo...

Visual recording of communication processes between communities or individuals by means of filming of photographing is of significant importance in anthropology, as it documents on site the specific features of various social communities in their encounter with the researcher. In terms of film industry, it is a sort of ethno-documentary pursuing originality and objectivity in recording the give...

The beginnings of medical anthropology in the Netherlands have a 'xenophile' character in two respects. First, those who started to call themselves medical anthropologists in the 1970s and 1980s were influenced and inspired not so much by anthropological colleagues, but by medical doctors working in tropical countries who had shown an interest in the role of culture during their medical work. S...

Nursing in the Western world developed mainly as an applied field, and has contributed to social-cultural theory only in the past 30 years. The purpose of this presentation is to document (a) the contributions of nursing to medical anthropology, (b) the influence anthropology has had on nursing, (c) the differences between the interface of nursing and anthropology and that of medicine and anthr...

a School of Anthropology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, U.S.A. b Department of Comparative and Developmental Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany c Center for Applied Genomics and Precision Medicine, Duke University, Durham, NC, U.S.A. d Evolutionary Anthropology, Duke University, Durham, NC, U.S.A. e Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Duke Unive...

Ecological interests in anthropology date back to the 1930s or earlier, but some work in anthropology is based on the natural history and population biology of Charles Darwin. Anthropology, as a science made up of diverse subfields, has selectively incorporated ecological principals and knowledge over the years. Incorporation of ecological ideas has been hampered by cyclic paradigm shifts in th...