ISBN:
9780739135112
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (273 p.)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Histories of American Physical Anthropology in the Twentieth Century
DDC:
599.90973
Keywords:
Physical anthropology - United States -
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Histories of American Physical Anthropology in the Twentieth Century chronicles the history of physical anthropology_or, as it is now known, biological anthropology_from its professional origins in the late 1800 up to its modern transformation in the late 1900s. In this edited volume, 13 contributors trace the development of people, ideas, traditions, and organizations that contributed to the advancement of this branch of anthropology that focuses today on human variation and human evolution
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; Preface; Contributors to the Volume; Chapter 01. Introduction to the History of American Physical Anthropology; Chapter 02. "Physical" Anthropology at the Turn of the Last Century; Chapter 03. Franz Boas's Place in American Physical Anthropology and Its Institutions; Chapter 04. Aleš Hrdlicka and the Founding of the American Journal of Physical Anthropology: 1918; Chapter 05. Principal Figures in Early 20th-Century Physical Anthropology: With Special Treatment of Forensic Anthropology; Chapter 06. The Founding of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists: 1930
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 07. Principal Figures in Physical Anthropology Before and During World War IIChapter 08. The Immediate Postwar Years: The Yearbook of Physical Anthropology and the Summer Seminars; Chapter 09. Sherwood L. Washburn and "The New Physical Anthropology"; Chapter 10. The Two 20th-Century Crises of Racial Anthropology; Chapter 11. Race and the Conflicts within the Profession of Physical Anthropology During the 1950s and 1960s; Chapter 12. 75 Years of the Annual Meetings of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, 1930-2004
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 13. Description, Hypothesis Testing, and Conceptual Advances in Physical Anthropology: Have We Moved On?Appendix: Development of Physical/Biological Anthropology: Historical Timeline; Index;
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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