1 Department of Anthropology, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, United States, 2 Anthropology, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, 3 Fundación Mata Ki Te Rangi, Rapa Nui, Chile, 4 Department of Geography, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, 5 Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States, 6 Anthrop...

How do we create futures in collaboration? Is future orientation in design anthropology a tool solid enough for scaffolding transformations? This paper explores the content of future orientation in design anthropology, participatory design and educational anthropology. The aim is to discuss how the three fields in different ways conceptualize processes of future making, what the central concept...

Parkinson's disease (PD) is the second most common progressive neurodegenerative brain disorder after Alzheimer's disease. Due to the complex etiology of PD, there is possibility that single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) in PARKIN gene could be associated with the disease and lead to the pathogenesis by genoenvironmental interactions. Role of PARKIN polymorphisms as risk factors varies in diff...

Questo paper presenta i primi esiti di un progetto di ricerca ancora in corso che mira a esplorare nuove forme di scrittura e rappresentazione etnografica. In particolare, la diffusione di tecnologie e pratiche di geo-tagging ha consentito di creare una piattaforma mediale plurale, in cui le tante soggettività che hanno osservato un complesso rituale funerario Bororo (nel Mato Grosso brasiliano...

This article introduces a special issue of Museum Anthropology devoted to innovative strategies for teaching with objects. Although a century ago anthropology, museums, and objects were intimately entwined, trends in many museology and anthropology courses have drifted toward focusing on ideas and people rather than objects. The contributors to this special issue have cultivated new pedagogical...

1Department of Anthropology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 2Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China 3Texas Archaeological Research Lab, University of Texas, Austin, Texas 4Desert Research Institute, Reno, NV 5Department of Anthropology, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri 6Institut de Physique...

This paper describes a newly defined nonmetric trait in the human dentition, i.e., Hypotrophic Roots of the Upper Central Incisors (HRUCI). Teeth presenting HRUCI are characterized by abnormally short roots whose crowns exhibit no apparent morphological alterations. The trait was observed in six samples from collective funerary sites in the Iberian Peninsula dated from the Late Neolithic to the...