Building a new biocultural synthesis : political-economic perspectives on human biology / edited by Alan H. Goodman and Thomas L. Leatherman.
| Other author | Goodman, Alan H. |
| Other author | Leatherman, Thomas L. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, ©1998. |
| Description | xxi, 486 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Linking levels of analysis Linking levels of analysis. ^A353643 |
| Contents | Traversing the chasm between biology and culture : an introduction -- The evolution of human adaptability paradigms : toward a biology of poverty -- Political economy and social fields -- The development of critical medical anthropology : implications for biological anthropology -- Linking political economy and human biology : lessons from North American archaeology -- The biological consequences of inequality in antiquity -- Owning the sins of the past : historical trends, missed opportunities, and new directions in the study of human remains -- Nature, nurture, and the determinants of infant mortality : a case study from Massachusetts, 1830-1920 -- Unequal in death as in life : a sociopolitical analysis of the 1813 Mexico City typhus epidemic -- Illness, social relations, and household production and reproduction in the Andes of southern Peru -- On the (un)natural history of the Tupí-Mondé Indians : bioanthropology and change in the Brazilian Amazon -- The political ecology of population increase and malnutrition in southern Honduras -- The biocultural impact of tourism on Mayan communities -- Poverty and nutrition in eastern Kentucky : the political economy of childhood growth -- Race, racism, and anthropology -- Beyond European enlightenment : toward a critical and humanistic human biology -- Latin American social medicine and the politics of theory -- Nature, political ecology, and social practice : toward an academic and political agenda -- What could be : biocultural anthropology for the next generation. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 98025385 |
| ISBN | 0472096060 (cloth : acid-free paper) |
| ISBN | 0472066064 (pbk. : acid-free paper) |