Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 341 pages) : illustrations |
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Cambridge studies in biological and evolutionary anthropology |
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Cambridge studies in biological and evolutionary anthropology.
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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 |
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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 |
Summary |
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 These largely untapped resources however reveal how the study of human biology through historical documents can expand the horizons of anthropological research |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Print version record |
Subject |
Medical anthropology -- Archival resources -- Congresses
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Physical anthropology -- Archival resources -- Congresses
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Physical anthropology.
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Research.
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Anthropology, Physical
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Archives
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Research
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physical anthropology.
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research (function)
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
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Research
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Physical anthropology
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Genre/Form |
proceedings (reports)
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Conference papers and proceedings
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Actes de congrès.
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Electronic book
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Author |
Herring, Ann, 1951-
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Swedlund, Alan C
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ISBN |
051106330X |
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9780511063305 |
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051117845X |
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9780511178450 |
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9780511542534 |
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0511542534 |
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9780511071768 |
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0511071760 |
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9780521801041 |
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0521801044 |
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