ISBN:
9780521801041
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (361 p.)
Series Statement:
Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology v.35
Parallel Title:
Print version Human Biologists in the Archives : Demography, Health, Nutrition and Genetics in Historical Populations
DDC:
306.4/61
Keywords:
Methodology
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
In this book, the 'field' is not an exotic locale but the sometimes dusty back rooms of libraries, archives and museums. These largely untapped resources however reveal how the study of human biology through historical documents can expand the horizons of anthropological resarch
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Foreword; Acknowledgements; 1 Human biologists in the archives: demography, health, nutrition and genetics in historical populations; 2 The use of archives in the study of microevolution: changing demography and epidemiology in Escazú, Costa Rica; 3 Anthropometric data and population history; 4 For everything there is a season: Chumash Indian births, marriages, and deaths at the Alta California missions; 5 Children of the poor: infant mortality in the Erie County Almshouse during the mid nineteenth century
Description / Table of Contents:
6 Worked to the bone: the biomechanical consequences of 'labor therapy' at a nineteenth century asylum7 Monitored growth: anthropometrics and health history records at a private New England middle school, 1935-1960; 8 Scarlet fever epidemics of the nineteenth century: a case of evolved pathogenic virulence?; 9 The ecology of a health crisis: Gibraltar and the 1865 cholera epidemic; 10 War and population composition in Åland, Finland; 11 Infectious diseases in the historical archives: a modeling approach; 12 Where were the women?
Description / Table of Contents:
13 Malnutrition among northern peoples of Canada in the 1940s: an ecological and economic disaster14 Archival research in physical anthropology; Index;
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
