Physical Anthropology

How bioarchaeology can illuminate the lived experiences of people in the Roman Empire   Research on the Roman Empire has long focused on Romes leg...

Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295804101The state of Tibetan culture within contemporary China is a highly politicized topic on which reliabl...

Drawing on a combination of interviews and auto-ethnographic data, Education, Retirement and Career Transitions for 'Black' Ex-Professional Footbal...

This book contains information on geographic location and park size, climate, topography, history of each park, and biodiversity and ecosystems. It...

A powerful and critical investigation of iron deficiency in women throughout evolutionary history and in our current society Women of the world ar...

The rise of the health, beauty and fitness industries in recent years has led to an increased focus on the body. Body image, gender and health are ...

This text offers an international and comparative analysis of social division rooted in race, ethnicity and national identity. It provides an overv...

[Gangs in Americas Communities] is one of the most comprehensive treatments of gangs in the marketplace. . .  . I highly recommend its adoption as ...

Street Shadows recounts Jerald Walkers renunciation of the thug life he had embraced as a teenager on the South Side of Chicago in favor of the edu...

The Yanomami and Kayapó, two indigenous groups of the Amazon rainforest, have become internationally known through their dramatic and highly public...

Using a unique analytical framework based on host-stranger relations, this book explores the response of cities to the arrival and settlement of la...

This definitive, detail-packed biography is the first of Frederick Starr (1856-1933), a founding father of American anthropology at the University ...

Bad Souls is an ethnographic study of responsibility among psychiatric patients and their caregivers in Thrace, the northeastern borderland of Gree...

When A History of the Mexican-American People was first published in 1977 it was greeted with enthusiasm for its straightforward, objective account...

Im Neither Here nor There explores how immigration influences the construction of family, identity, and community among Mexican Americans and migra...

Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295743004Only fifty years ago, Tibetan medicine, now seen in China as a vibrant aspect of Tibetan culture, was...

In Tracing Autism, Des Fitzgerald offers an up-close account of the search for a neurological explanation of autism. As autism has gained cultural ...

Drawing on ethnographic research, Living Sharia examines the role of sharia in the sociopolitical processes of contemporary Malaysia. The book trac...

Drawing on ethnographic research, Living Sharia examines the role of sharia in the sociopolitical processes of contemporary Malaysia. The book trac...

The late Edward Said remains one of the most influential critics and public intellectuals of our time, with lasting contributions to many disciplin...

After the pioneers, the second generation of African American anthropologists trained in the late 1950s and 1960s. Expected to study their own or s...