Anthropology of Race
2013. Edited by John HartiganAnthropology of Race confronts the challenge of formulating an effective rejoinder to new arguments and new data about race, and attempts to address the intense desire to understand race and why it matters.
Biology, Brains, & Behavior
2000. Edited by Sue Taylor Parker, Jonas Langer, and Michael L. McKinney
An exciting new cross-disciplinary field of biocultural research is emerging at the start of the twenty-first century: developmental evolutionary biology. Looking at the behavio…
Breathing New Life into the Evidence of Death
2012. Edited by Aubrey Baadsgaard, Alexis T. Boutin, and Jane E. Buikstra
Breathing New Life into the Evidence of Death showcases the vibrancy of bioarchaeological research and its potential for bringing “new life” to the field of mortua…
Childhood
2016. Edited by Courtney L. Meehan and Alyssa N. Crittenden
This collection is the first to specifically address our current understanding of the evolution of human childhood, which in turn significantly affects our interpretations of the evolution o…
Costly and Cute
2016. Edited by Wenda R. Trevathan and Karen R. Rosenberg
The authors take a broad look at how human infants are similar to and different from the infants of other species, at how our babies have constrained our evolution over the past six million years, and at …
Disturbing Bodies
2015. Edited by Zoë Crossland and Rosemary A. Joyce
As bodies are revealed, so are hidden and often incommensurate understandings of the body after death. The theme of “disturbing bodies” has a double valence, evoking both the work that anthropologists do…
The Evolution of Human Life History
2006. Edited by Kristen Hawkes and Richard R. Paine
This volume brings together specialists in hunter-gatherer behavioral ecology and demography, human growth, development, and nutrition, paleodemography, human paleontology, primatology, and the geno…
The Information Continuum
1994. Barbara J. King
This volume creates a synthetic view of the evolution of communication among primates. King contends that the crucial element in the evolution of information acquisition and transfer is the acquired ability to donate information…
Methods and Theories of Anthropological Genetics
1973. Edited by M. H. Crawford and P. L. Workman
This book deals with the methods and theories used to study variation within and among human populations, specifically looking at genetics research conducted in the 1960s and 1970s. It presents empiric…
Negotiating Structural Vulnerability in Cancer Control
2019. Edited by Julie Armin, Nancy J. Burke, and Laura Eichelberger
The contributors in this volume explore what it means to be structurally vulnerable; how structural vulnerabilities intersect with cancer risk, diagnosis, care seeking, caregiving, c…
New Geospatial Approaches to the Anthropological Sciences
2018. Edited by Robert L. Anemone and Glenn C. Conroy
This volume brings together scholars who are currently applying state-of-the-art tools, techniques, and methods of geographical information sciences (GIScience) to diverse data sets of anthropolog…
Why Forage?
2016. Edited by Brian F. Codding and Karen L. KramerThrough a series of detailed case studies, the contributors to this volume examine the decisions made by modern-day foragers to sustain a predominantly hunting and gathering way of life.