Readings in Biological Anthropology
Readings in Biological Anthropology

Author: Nancy E. Tatarek

Publisher: Cognella Academic Publishing

Published: 2021-09-03

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781516587926

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Readings in Biological Anthropology provides students with carefully selected articles that align with four key topics that most introductory biological anthropology courses cover: evolutionary theory and genetics, non-human primates, human evolution, and human variation. Each of the readings focuses on one of these areas, but also reflects a unique perspective or approach to the topic. Each reading is framed by a short introduction to provide context and post-reading questions that reinforce main concepts and inspire critical thinking. Students explore such topics as Darwin and the science of evolution; human morality and the question of altruism among non-human primates; history as cultural evolution; infectious diseases as ecological and historical phenomena; and much more. Designed to introduce students to the discipline, Readings in Biological Anthropology is an ideal textbook for non-majors and those new to the study of biological anthropology.

Roundtable Viewpoints: Physical Anthropology
Roundtable Viewpoints: Physical Anthropology

Author: Elvio Angeloni

Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Dushkin

Published: 2008-03-14

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780073515151

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ROUNDTABLE VIEWPOINTS: PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY offers varying perspectives on important issues and provides readers with balanced and fair coverage of a topic to form their own opinion or to support their research. This reader is designed to address a number of different issues regarding physical anthropology. Each issue question is relevant to the topic and guides readers through the readings. The controversy and different views among the captivating readings is readily apparent to the reader and stimulates discussion. The 3-5 selections per issue are current, culled from a variety of sources, and relate to the most popular issues surrounding the topic. In addition to the issue questions and selections, ROUNDTABLE VIEWPOINTS: PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY includes an issue introduction; summary/overview; highlights; critical thinking; challenge questions; and additional reading and/or websites.

A Companion to Forensic Anthropology
A Companion to Forensic Anthropology

Author: Dennis Dirkmaat

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2015-04-20

Total Pages: 752

ISBN-13: 1118959795

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A Companion to Forensic Anthropology presents the most comprehensive assessment of the philosophy, goals, and practice of forensic anthropology currently available, with chapters by renowned international scholars and experts. Highlights the latest advances in forensic anthropology research, as well as the most effective practices and techniques used by professional forensic anthropologists in the field Illustrates the development of skeletal biological profiles and offers important new evidence on statistical validation of these analytical methods. Evaluates the goals and methods of forensic archaeology, including the preservation of context at surface-scattered remains, buried bodies and fatal fire scenes, and recovery and identification issues related to large-scale mass disaster scenes and mass grave excavation.

Exploring Physical Anthropology: Lab Manual and Workbook, 4e
Exploring Physical Anthropology: Lab Manual and Workbook, 4e

Author: Suzanne E Walker Pacheco

Publisher: Morton Publishing Company

Published: 2022-01-14

Total Pages: 528

ISBN-13: 1640432132

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Exploring Physical Anthropology is a comprehensive, full-color lab manual intended for an introductory laboratory course in physical anthropology. It can also serve as a supplementary workbook for a lecture class, particularly in the absence of a laboratory offering. This laboratory manual enables a hands-on approach to learning about the evolutionary processes that resulted in humans through the use of numerous examples and exercises. It offers a solid grounding in the main areas of an introductory physical anthropology lab course: genetics, evolutionary forces, human osteology, forensic anthropology, comparative/functional skeletal anatomy, primate behavior, paleoanthropology, and modern human biological variation.

Biological Anthropology
Biological Anthropology

Author: Craig Britton Stanford

Publisher: Prentice Hall

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780205150687

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This textbook presents a survey of physical anthropology, the branch of anthropology that studies the physical development of the human species. It plays an important part in the study of human origins and in the analysis and identification of human remains for legal purposes. It draws upon human body measurements, human genetics, and the study of human bones and includes the study of human brain evolution, and of culture as neurological adaptation to environment. The authors use the progressive term "biological anthropology" to mean "an integrative combination of information from the fossil record and the human skeleton, genetics of individuals and of populations, our primate relatives, human adaptation, and human behavior."

Talking about People
Talking about People

Author: William A. Haviland

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13:

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A reader for cultural anthropology courses consisting of articles that are global, both in authorship and perspective. The articles focus on contemporary global concerns and place an emphasis on gender issues throughout.

Readings in Early Anthropology
Readings in Early Anthropology

Author: James S. Slotkin

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 550

ISBN-13: 1135650632

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This book considers the beginnings of anthropology as a cultural tradition, and examines how it was developed and transmitted. It begins in the twelfth century, when commercial capitalism and extensive acculturation spread a secular world view among intellectuals. It ends with the eighteenth century, because most anthropologists are familiar with the subsequent history of their science. Originally published in 1963.

A History of Anthropological Theory, Fourth Edition
A History of Anthropological Theory, Fourth Edition

Author: Paul A. Erickson

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 2013-04-26

Total Pages: 574

ISBN-13: 1442606614

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In the latest edition of their popular overview text, Erickson and Murphy continue to provide a comprehensive, affordable, and accessible introduction to anthropological theory from antiquity to the present. A new section on twenty-first-century anthropological theory has been added, with more coverage given to postcolonialism, non-Western anthropology, and public anthropology. The book has also been redesigned to be more visually and pedagogically engaging. Used on its own, or paired with the companion volume Readings for a History of Anthropological Theory, Fourth Edition, this reader offers a flexible and highly useful resource for the undergraduate anthropology classroom. For additional resources, visit the "Teaching Theory" page at www.utpteachingculture.com.

Our Origins
Our Origins

Author: Clark Spencer Larsen

Publisher: W. W. Norton

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780393614008

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