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Historical Development of Forensic Anthropology
Forensic Anthropology, 2021Although the term “forensic anthropology” was employed in Germany and Austria in the early 1900s, it appeared in the early 1970s in the North American literature. Roots of modern forensic anthropology can be traced to nineteenth-century European centers of comparative anatomy, but it developed in North America through early casework and research ...
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History and Historical Anthropology
Diogenes, 1990“A foreign culture is not revealed in its entirety and its depth except by its view of another culture […] A meaning is revealed in its depth for having encountered and come into contact with another meaning, a foreign meaning: between the two something like a dialogue is installed which because of the closed and onesided nature, inherent in the ...
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African Widows: Anthropological and Historical Perspectives
Journal of Women & Aging, 2003Variety characterizes widows' experiences around the world and in Africa south of the Sahara. This article explores the socioeconomic and cultural contexts of African widowhood, using anthropological studies in a number of African societies, including the author's research among Abaluyia of western Kenya.
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Reflections on Historical Anthropology
2016This essay targets a Chinese scholarly audience, who deserves a coherent presentation of the analytical themes that my South China colleagues and I have been concerned with. One cannot ignore history when one studies the unifying and diversifying cultural processes in an entity one terms “China.” Years of field research in South China has made one ...
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Anthropological and Historical Studies
2001Abstract Medical anthropologists and historians have described a number of” culture bound” syndromes, disorders found only in certain cultures or during certain eras. Many of these appear to be illness roles. Since anthropologists and historians have long made a point of addressing the functions such illnesses serve, their study can ...
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Historical Anthropology? Comparative Anthropology?
Arion: A Journal of the Humanities and the Classics, 2009Marcel Detienne, Janet Lloyd
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Historical Anthropology of the Family
The American Historical Review, 1988[Susan Greenhalgh] +3 more
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Historical Anthropology of the Family
1986This historical anthropology of the family represents a new departure in family studies. Over the past ten years or so, the social scientific sociological analysis of the family has undergone a change, and has been obliged to reconsider its traditional view that industrialisation triggered a shift within society from the 'large family', which fulfilled
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Hegel's historical anthropology
Starting from Koselleck’s notion of «historical anthropology», I propose to rethink Hegel’s philosophy of history in the light of a series of questions: What is the human being as a historical being? What explains why human beings, unlike other animals, have a history as event and narrative?openaire +1 more source