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Anthropology explored : the best of Smithsonian "AnthroNotes" / edited by Ruth Osterweis Selig and Marilyn R. London ; illustrated by Robert L. Humphrey ; with a foreword by David W. McCurdy.

By: Osterweis Selig, Ruth
Contributor(s): London, Marilyn R | McCurdy, David W | Smithsonian Institution
Language: English Series: Publisher: Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, 1998.Description: xviii, 348p. : ill., maps ; 23cm.ISBN: 1560987634
Contents:
Contents: Introduction: investigating the origins, nature and cultures of humankind / R. Osterweis Selig; Human origins. "Ape-ing" language / Kathleen D. Gordon; Politics and problems of gorilla and chimp conservation / Alison S. Brooks [et al.]; What's new in early human evolution 5 to 1 million years ago? / A.S. Brooks; Modern human origins / A.S. Brooks; Man the scavenger / K.D. Gordon; The real Flintstones? What are artists' depictions of human ancestors telling us? / Diane Gifford-Gonzalez; What bones teach us? / K.D. Gordon; Disease in human evolution / G.J. Armelagos, Kathleen C. Barnes, James Lin; Archaeologists examine the past. History, progress and the facts of ancient life / Mark N. Cohen; New perspectives on agricultural origins in the ancient Near East / M.A. Zeder; Pygmies of the Ituri / John W. Fisher, jr.; Who got to America first? / Stephen Williams; Bones and stones - or sheep? Studying the first Americans / R.O. Selig, Dennis J. Stanford; The first South Americans: Monte Verde / T.D. Dillehay; The Moche: an ancient Peruvian people / J.W. Verano; A quiet revolution: origins of agriculture in eastern North America / R.O. Selig, Bruce D. Smith; Global culture change: new views of circumpolar lands and people / William W. Fitzhugh; The archaeology of African American life / Theresa A. Singleton; Our many cultures. Identity transformations in colonial northern Mexico / W.L. Merrill; Andean women / Catherine J. Allen; Whose past is it anyway? / Loretta Fowler; Doing ethnography at Macalester College / R. Osterweis Selig; Another Maasai story / Naomi Kipury; Maya Indians and the Passamaquoddy of Maine / R.M. Laughlin, K.J. Bragdon; Medicine, law and education: applied linguistics / P. Ann Kaupp, R.W. Shuy; Anthropological perspectives on aging / A.S. Brooks, Patricia Draper; Ethnographic film / J.P. Homiak; 150 years of Native American research at the Smithsonian / J. Archambault, W.C. Sturtevant; Race and ethnicity in America / A.S. Brooks, Fatimah L.C. Jackson, R.R. Grinker.
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Contents: Introduction: investigating the origins, nature and cultures of humankind / R. Osterweis Selig; Human origins. "Ape-ing" language / Kathleen D. Gordon; Politics and problems of gorilla and chimp conservation / Alison S. Brooks [et al.]; What's new in early human evolution 5 to 1 million years ago? / A.S. Brooks; Modern human origins / A.S. Brooks; Man the scavenger / K.D. Gordon; The real Flintstones? What are artists' depictions of human ancestors telling us? / Diane Gifford-Gonzalez; What bones teach us? / K.D. Gordon; Disease in human evolution / G.J. Armelagos, Kathleen C. Barnes, James Lin; Archaeologists examine the past. History, progress and the facts of ancient life / Mark N. Cohen; New perspectives on agricultural origins in the ancient Near East / M.A. Zeder; Pygmies of the Ituri / John W. Fisher, jr.; Who got to America first? / Stephen Williams; Bones and stones - or sheep? Studying the first Americans / R.O. Selig, Dennis J. Stanford; The first South Americans: Monte Verde / T.D. Dillehay; The Moche: an ancient Peruvian people / J.W. Verano; A quiet revolution: origins of agriculture in eastern North America / R.O. Selig, Bruce D. Smith; Global culture change: new views of circumpolar lands and people / William W. Fitzhugh; The archaeology of African American life / Theresa A. Singleton; Our many cultures. Identity transformations in colonial northern Mexico / W.L. Merrill; Andean women / Catherine J. Allen; Whose past is it anyway? / Loretta Fowler; Doing ethnography at Macalester College / R. Osterweis Selig; Another Maasai story / Naomi Kipury; Maya Indians and the Passamaquoddy of Maine / R.M. Laughlin, K.J. Bragdon; Medicine, law and education: applied linguistics / P. Ann Kaupp, R.W. Shuy; Anthropological perspectives on aging / A.S. Brooks, Patricia Draper; Ethnographic film / J.P. Homiak; 150 years of Native American research at the Smithsonian / J. Archambault, W.C. Sturtevant; Race and ethnicity in America / A.S. Brooks, Fatimah L.C. Jackson, R.R. Grinker.