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The Biological Anthropology of Living Human Populations: World Histories, National Styles, and International Networks: An Introduction to Supplement 5 (2013)

Lindee, Mary Susan (Author)
Santos, Ricardo Ventura (Author)

Current Anthropology
Volume: 53, no. S5
Issue: S5
Pages: 3-16
Publication date: 2013
Language: English

Publication Date: 2013
Edition Details: Introduction to a supplemental issue, “The Biological Anthropology of Living Human Populations: World Histories, National Styles, and International Networks”

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We introduce a special issue of Current Anthropology developed from a Wenner-Gren symposium held in Teresópolis, Brazil, in 2010 that was about the past, present, and future of biological anthropology. Our goal was to understand from a comparative international perspective the contexts of genesis and development of physical/biological anthropology around the world. While biological anthropology today can encompass paleoanthropology, primatology, and skeletal biology, our symposium focused on the field's engagement with living human populations. Bringing together scholars in the history of science, science studies, and anthropology, the participants examined the discipline's past in different contexts but also reflected on its contemporary and future conditions. Our contributors explore national histories, collections, and scientific field practice with the goal of developing a broader understanding of the discipline's history. Our work tracks a global, uneven transition from a typological and essentialist physical anthropology, predominating until the first decades of the twentieth century, to a biological anthropology informed by postsynthesis evolutionism and the rise of molecular biology, a shift that was labeled new physical anthropology. We place biological anthropology in a broad historical context and suggest how the histories we document can inform its future.

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Article Santos, Gonçalo (2013) The Birth of Physical Anthropology in Late Imperial Portugal. Current Anthropology (pp. 33-45). unapi

Article Kyllingstad, Jon Røyne (2013) Norwegian Physical Anthropology and the Idea of a Nordic Master Race. Current Anthropology (pp. 46-56). unapi

Article Lipphardt, Veronika (2013) Isolates and Crosses in Human Population Genetics; Or, A Contextualization of German Race Science. Current Anthropology (pp. 69-82). unapi

Article Anderson, Warwick (2013) Racial Hybridity, Physical Anthropology, and Human Biology in the Colonial Laboratories of the United States. Current Anthropology (pp. 95-107). unapi

Article Smocovitis, Vassiliki Betty (2013) Humanizing Evolution: Anthropology, the Evolutionary Synthesis, and the Prehistory of Biological Anthropology, 1927--1962. Current Anthropology (pp. 108-125). unapi

Article Larsen, Clark Spencer; Williams, Leslie Lea (2013) Internationalizing Physical Anthropology: A View of the Study of Living Human Variation from the Pages of the American Journal of Physical Anthropology. Current Anthropology (pp. 139-151). unapi

Article Marks, Jonathan (2013) The Origins of Anthropological Genetics. Current Anthropology (pp. 161-172). unapi

Article Selcer, Perrin (2013) Beyond the Cephalic Index: Negotiating Politics to Produce UNESCO's Scientific Statements on Race. Current Anthropology (pp. 173-184). unapi

Article Kakaliouras, Ann M. (2013) An Anthropology of Repatriation: Contemporary Physical Anthropological and Native American Ontologies of Practice. Current Anthropology (pp. 210-221). unapi

Article Santos, Ricardo Ventura (2013) Guardian Angel on a Nation's Path: Contexts and Trajectories of Physical Anthropology in Brazil in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries. Current Anthropology (pp. 17-32). unapi

Article Low, Morris (2013) Physical Anthropology in Japan: The Ainu and the Search for the Origins of the Japanese. Current Anthropology (pp. 57-68). unapi

Article Sibeud, Emmanuelle (2013) A Useless Colonial Science? Practicing Anthropology in the French Colonial Empire, circa 1880--1960. Current Anthropology (pp. 83-94). unapi

Article Little, Michael A. (2013) Human Population Biology in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century. Current Anthropology (pp. 126-138). unapi

Article Morris, Alan G. (2013) Biological Anthropology at the Southern Tip of Africa: Carrying European Baggage in an African Context. Current Anthropology (pp. 152-160). unapi

Article Watkins, Rachel J. (2013) Biohistorical Narratives of Racial Difference in the American Negro: Notes toward a Nuanced History of American Physical Anthropology. Current Anthropology (pp. 196-209). unapi

Article Turner, Trudy R. (2013) Ethical Issues in Human Population Biology. Current Anthropology (pp. 222-232). unapi

Article Reardon, Jenny; TallBear, Kim (2013) “Your DNA Is Our History”: Genomics, Anthropology, and the Construction of Whiteness as Property. Current Anthropology (pp. 233-245). unapi

Article Radin, Joanna; Cameron, Noel (2013) Studying Mandela's Children: Human Biology in Post-Apartheid South Africa: An Interview with Noel Cameron. Current Anthropology (pp. 256-266). unapi

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