The environment in anthropology

Forensic anthropology builds upon the skills developed within physical anthropology which focus on human osteology. The aim is to allow the bones to "speak," to allow the deceased to tell a story about who they were, how they lived and how they died. Our ability to "listen" depends largely upon our willingness to understand the principles by which the body is formed, how and why humans may vary phenotypically, and how the body responds to the environment in which it lives and dies.

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Ebook The environment in anthropology: A reader in ecology, culture, and sustainable living – Part 2 presents the following content: Section 5: managing the environment, section 6: indigenous groups, section 7: consumption and globalization. Please refer to the documentation for more details. Please refer to the documentation for more details.

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Ebook The environment in anthropology: A reader in ecology, culture, and sustainable living – Part 1 presents the following content: Section 1: theoretical foundations, section 2: population, section 3: large-scale economic development, section 4: conserving biodiversity. Please refer to the documentation for more details. Please refer to the documentation for more details.

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The Sundarbans in linguistic Bengal in the Indian Subcontinent constitutes a unique ecosystem. Living conditions in these environs have been riddled with specific bounties as well as hazards. Historical records since the early medieval times reveal how society has created its own mechanisms for physical and psychological sustenance in these natural conditions.

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New specialties sometimes combine with the traditional fields and form new branches - for example Earth Systems Engineering and Management involves a wide range of subject areas including anthropology, engineering, environmental science, ethics and philosophy. A new or emerging area of application will commonly be defined temporarily as a permutation or subset of existing disciplines; there is often gray area as to when a given sub-field becomes large and/or prominent enough to warrant classification as a new "branch.

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The cattle-keeping Nilotes need little introduction here. This essay focuses on the Nuer, Dinka, Atuot, and Mandari of the Southern Sudan, concerning each of whom there is a substantial and easily accessible literature, while making passing reference to the closely related Anuak of the Southern Sudan and the more distantly related Pokot and Maasai of East Africa. The Nuer and Dinka in particular are well known to all students of anthropology.[Note 1] What does perhaps require some explanation is their being taken together as ‘the cattle-keeping Nilotes’.

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This book is an anthropological study of the impact of commercialism on the professionalisation of sports medicine. In particular, it examines how the embodied practice of sport in a professional environment places stress on elite sporting participants. These individuals have better medical provisions than were available to the competitors of yesteryear. But they come at a price. The book investigates the relationship between commercialism, medicine and the body, in order to establish the importance of pain, injury and risk in the contemporary sporting world....

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To the foregoing one might add the approach which, in addition to culture as an internal variable or as a metaphor, is centred on analysing culture as a broader variable, which goes beyond the organisation and its most immediate environment, introducing the nations’ culture (cross cultural-cross national perspective) as one of the conditioning elements of control systems (Inzerilli and Rosen, 1983; Ronen, 1986; Nath, 1988; Shin et al, 1990; Lachman et al., 1994).

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Such predictions of the theory as that increases in women’s labour productivity reduce the household demand for children are borne out in cross-country evidence (Schultz, 1997). Nevertheless, the study of isolated households is not a propitious one in which to explore the possibilities of collective failure among households. For example, there have been few attempts to estimate reproductive externalities.

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Understanding the origins of humanity has long been one of our foremost intellectual pursuits, and one that greatly interests the general public as evidenced by museum attendance and by numerous media productions and general interest publications. Progress toward an improved understanding of our heritage is a continuing challenge for the scientific community, requiring advances in a range of disciplines that include archaeology, anthropology, geology, biology, oceanography, and genetics, and particularly research advances in areas where two or more of these fields intersect.

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Catherine Alexander teaches anthropology at Goldsmiths College, London. She has worked in Turkey, Kazakhstan and Britain on issues of urban governance, privatisation, property and the built environment. Her recent publications include Personal states: making connections between people and bureaucracy in Turkey (2002) and contributions to the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Focaal: European Journal of Anthropology (special issue on cultural property) and the collection edited by C. Humphrey and K.

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The editors express gratitude to the people whose advice and help at critical points in the project helped the volume come to fruition. Leanne Nash, Catherine Tucker, Glenn Stone, Dick Norgaard, as well as reviewers for New York University Press, pointed us to useful publications. Nora Haenn worked on the reader as a Mellon Foundation Fellow in Anthropology and Demography while at the Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina. In addition to the Foundation, she thanks the Carolina Population Center for building such a supportive research atmosphere.

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Linguistic anthropology evolved in the twentieth century in an environment that tended to reify language and culture. A recognition of the dynamics of discourse as a sociocultural process has since emerged as researchers have used new methods and theories to examine the reproduction and transformation of people, institutions, and communities through linguistic practices. This transformation of linguistic anthropology itself heralds a new era for publishing as well.

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