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A detailed understanding of female reproductive functioning is important to many disciplines including anthropology, evolutionary theory, demography, psychology, and biomedicine. In this article, I describe strategies and methods that have been used successfully in community-based studies of human reproduction, many in remote locales, to produce high quality biomarker data. These techniques are applicable to a wide range of research questions and populations, and to persons from adolescence through senescence. I give particular attention to the inherent challenges imposed by the cyclical and somewhat unpredictable nature of the hypothalamic-pituitary-ovarian axis including the necessity and difficulty of ascertaining the timing and occurrence of ovulation, the limits of different sampling regimes for capturing fluctuations in reproductive hormones, and the critical importance of recognizing and, when possible, reducing selection bias. I discuss the relative advantages and disadvantages of collecting saliva, urine, and dried blood spots, and describe some of the subtleties involved in collecting contamination-free samples. Once samples are collected, they must be stored in a manner that minimizes degradation; I describe techniques to keep samples cold even without access to electricity or dry ice. I also discuss various issues that should be considered during initial discussions with a laboratory and when samples are assayed by the laboratory. I include examples of techniques that have worked well in actual field studies, and examples of flawed analytical approaches that should be avoided. With these and other tools, even under technology-sparse conditions, researchers can investigate variability in human physiology across the breadth of human habitats., (© 2020 Wiley Periodicals LLC.)

Objectives: With our diverse training, theoretical and empirical toolkits, and rich data, evolutionary and biological anthropologists (EBAs) have much to contribute to research and policy decisions about climate change and other pressing social issues. However, we remain largely absent from these critical, ongoing efforts. Here, we draw on the literature and our own experiences to make recommendations for how EBAs can engage broader audiences, including the communities with whom we collaborate, a more diverse population of students, researchers in other disciplines and the development sector, policymakers, and the general public. These recommendations include: (1) playing to our strength in longitudinal, place-based research, (2) collaborating more broadly, (3) engaging in greater public communication of science, (4) aligning our work with open-science practices to the extent possible, and (5) increasing diversity of our field and teams through intentional action, outreach, training, and mentorship., Conclusions: We EBAs need to put ourselves out there: research and engagement are complementary, not opposed to each other. With the resources and workable examples we provide here, we hope to spur more EBAs to action., (© 2021 Wiley Periodicals LLC.)

Objectives: In this article, we discuss research from the science of teaching and learning and from progressive pedagogy, with the aim of discussing how these fields can help us all become better teachers., Methods: Our methods were based on assessment of the literature and our in-class practices., Results: We find that the practices of critical progressive pedagogy are rooted in good research practices and are based both on new research and on fundamental aspects of teaching and learning., Conclusions: While some of the ideas mentioned in this piece might be seen as radical, we argue that everyone can benefit from a discussion of these concepts and ideas. Teaching is something that we all do in various ways. Progressive pedagogy allows us to create classrooms as a space to welcome all learners and also pushes educators toward creating a more diverse, inclusive, and equitable classroom., (© 2021 Wiley Periodicals LLC.)

Objectives: This review explores the dualism in evolutionary anthropology that both acknowledges a broad range of familial caretaking strategies, while also remaining tethered to theories scaffolded around notions of selfish genes that constrain our understanding of who provides adequate kin care. I examine the process of norm creation in the sciences by investigating how theory may limit which data are collected and how those data are interpreted., Methods: This paper serves as a literature review and critique of prominent biological, evolutionary, and psychological conceptualizations of parental investment and caretaking in humans, and how these studies shape what is considered normal behavior in scientific literature., Results: Quantification, assessment, and theory building in evolutionary anthropology, and an oversampling of WEIRD communities in other disciplines, have limited our understanding of what constitutes both evolutionarily adaptive behaviors, and culturally specific human behaviors., Conclusions: A synthetic theoretical model of behavioral norms in childrearing must account for an exchange of psycho-social and cultural resources and skills, the transfer of energetic reserves via gestation and lactation, and the indirect benefits of genetic inheritance. The emphasis on tailoring data collection to fit evolutionary theories of the family has limited our ability to understand the diverse proximate mechanisms that humans employ in taking care of kin as biocultural reproducers., (© 2021 Wiley Periodicals LLC.)

Ethnographies of groups who draw genealogical charts are relatively common in anthropology. Bringing the ethnographic gaze to bear on genealogical charts drawn up by bureaucratic and legal institutions, however, is a fairly rare methodological strategy in both the anthropology of bureaucracy and kinship studies. Hybridizing these two bodies of anthropological theory and using ethnographic material on post-socialist housing restitution in Romania, I describe how bureaucratic and legal institutions co-create genealogical charts and use them as tools to make the composition of kin networks legible and to verify and validate them. Several articles of the Civil Code strictly regulate inheritance, amounting to what might be called, after Malinowski, the state's bastard algebra of kinship. These legal prescriptions inscribe kinship in bureaucratic certificates, documents, and genealogical charts, which help state institutions reach legal certainty about the flow of inheritance rights. Rather than simply dismissing genealogical charts as false science, anthropologists might approach them as a mundane form of statecraft and as bureaucratic inscriptions able to author social worlds and make law active in everyday life. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Presents bibliography of books on anthropology.

Before amalgamating published isotope data, comparability should be demonstrated. This paper compares carbon and oxygen isotopic compositions of 30 enamel samples measured by two laboratories. The aims were to see what, if any, isotopic variation was observed, to determine the causes as needed and to correct if possible. Bioapatite was acidified at 90°C in 2006 and at 26°C in 2017, while δ values were corrected via one‐point normalization in 2006 and by two‐point normalization in 2017. One case (of the 30) produced different δ values between the analysis dates, suggesting contamination. Repeated carbon isotope ratio measurements were not meaningfully different. Repeated oxygen isotope ratio measurements were significantly different, even following correction for acid‐carbonate fractionation at different temperatures and the renormalization of 2017 δ values using one point; however, differences were not meaningful for interpretations. Results were used to calculate real interpretative differences (RIDs) for comparing enamel bioapatite as 0.6‰ for δ13C values and as 1.6‰ for δ18O values. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Center for the Study of World Religions (CSWR) project represented here through papers by Thomas Lewis, Aaron Stalnaker, Hans Lucht, and Lee Yearley (with responses) was motivated by the judgment that the trend toward a focus on virtue ethics, with attendant concern for techniques of forming selves, creates an opportunity for a dialogue with ethnographers. I argue that the CSWR essays neglect social and institutional considerations, as well as overdrawing the distinction between “formalist” and virtue approaches to the study of comparative ethics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents a list of books related to anthropology including "Female Circumcision: Multicultural Perspectives," edited by Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf, "Silence: The Currency of Power," edited by Maria-Luisa Achino-Loeb and "Memory Practices in the Sciences," by Geoffrey C. Bowker.

A list of books about anthropology is presented including "Existentialism: An Introduction" by Kevin Aho, "Everyone Eats: Understanding Food and Culture," Second Edition, by E. N. Anderson, and "High Culture and Experience in Ancient Egypt" by John Baines.

The germ theory of disease and the attendant public health initiatives, including sanitation, vaccination, and antibiotic treatment, led to dramatic increases in global life expectancy. As the prevalence of infectious disease declines, mental disorders are emerging as major contributors to the global burden of disease. Scientists understand little about the etiology of mental disorders, however, and many of the most popular psychopharmacological treatments, such as antidepressants and antipsychotics, have only moderate-to-weak efficacy in treating symptoms and fail to target biological systems that correspond to discrete psychiatric syndromes. Consequently, despite dramatic increases in the treatment of some mental disorders, there has been no decrease in the prevalence of most mental disorders since accurate record keeping began. Many researchers and theorists are therefore endeavoring to rethink psychiatry from the ground-up. Anthropology, especially biological anthropology, can offer critical theoretical and empirical insights to combat mental illness globally. Biological anthropologists are unique in that we take a panhuman approach to human health and behavior and are trained to address each of Tinbergen's four levels of analysis as well as culture. The field is thus exceptionally well-situated to help resolve the mysteries of mental illness by integrating biological, evolutionary, and sociocultural perspectives., (© 2019 American Association of Physical Anthropologists.)

Human variation, including questions about race, have been central to biological anthropology since its emergence as a professional discipline in the early 20th century. More recently, genomic data have been used to address open questions about the nature and scope of human variation. Results from genome-wide association studies and commercially available direct-to-consumer genetic ancestry tests have also kindled scholarly debate about the relationship between genetics/genomics and race. Such discussions among scholars and other stakeholders, illustrates that there are still many open issues about how genomic data influence the ways that people think about and debate race and racism. Genetic ancestry remains particularly contentious because of a complicated history of race within anthropology and other human sciences. In this article, I provide a broad overview on understandings of race given the new discoveries in genetics/genomics and provide examples of how these types of data continue to impact social and legal understandings of race. Ultimately, given that a primary focus of biological anthropology is to query human experience from a biological perspective, it will remain critical that biological anthropologists uphold the anti-racist tradition of modern anthropology and diligently work to shape narratives about human difference., (© 2019 American Association of Physical Anthropologists.)

Objectives: Riparian or gallery forests are critical habitats for numerous plants and animals today. Paleoanthropologically, reliance on such habitats informs behavioral and ecological reconstructions; for example, gallery forest habitats likely played a critical role in the transition from ape to hominin in the early Pliocene and may represent a preferred habitat for the last common ancestor of chimpanzees and humans. Direct indicators for gallery forest habitats preference are lacking. The objective of this article is to assess whether strontium isotope ratios are a reliable indicator of habitat preference for fauna living in and around gallery forests., Materials and Methods: We report bioavailable strontium isotope ratios from the Mugiri River, its tributaries, and its gallery forest (Toro-Semliki Wildlife Reserve, southwestern Uganda), and compare them to surrounding savanna-grassland values. We compare these environmental values to strontium isotopes ratios in faunal tooth enamel to determine if habitat preferences are accurately reflected., Results: Gallery forest and savanna-grassland vegetations have significantly different strontium isotope ratio profiles. We trace these isotopic differences to the influence of the Mugiri tributaries, which originate on Paleoproterozoic gneiss deposits on top of the surrounding escarpments. These isotopic differences in vegetation are mirrored in the tissues of fauna with habitat preferences for either the gallery forest or the surrounding grasslands., Discussion: This research demonstrates the potential of strontium isotope ratios to identify habitat preferences in modern or fossil fauna under proper geologic variability. It provides a methodological model for future studies seeking to reconstruct habitat preferences in early hominins., (© 2019 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.)

Books reviewed: Anthropology and history Hare, Tom, Remembering Osiris: number, gender, and the word in ancient Egyptian representational systems Harlan, Jack R., The living fields: our agricultural heritage Inomata, Takeshi & Stephen D. Houston (eds), Royal courts of the ancient Maya. Vol. 1: theory, comparison, synthesis Lockwood, Matthew, Fertility and house– hold labour in Tanzania: demography, economy, and society in Rufiji district, c.1870–1986 Pollock, Susan, Ancient Mesopotamia: the Eden that never was (Case Stud. early soc.) Quijada, Mónica, Carmen Bernand & Arnd Schneider, Homogeneidad y nación: con un estudio de caso: Argentina, siglos XIX y XX (Coll. tierra nueva e cielo nuovo 42) Anthropology of religion Assayag, Jackie & Gilles Tarabout (eds), La possession en asie du sud: parole, corps, territorie / Possession in South Asia: speech, body, territory Klass, Morton & Maxine K. Weisgrau (eds), Across the boundaries of belief (Contemp. issues in anthr. relig.) Rakotomalala, Malanjaona, Sophie Blancy & Françoise Raison–Jourde, Madagascar: les ancêtres au quotidien: usages sociaux du religieux sur les Hautes–Terres Malgaches Development Bierschenk, Thomas, J.–P. Chaveau & J.–P. Olivier de Sardan (eds), Courtiers en développement: les villages africains en quête de projets (Collection ‘Hommes et Sociétés’) Zerner, Charles (ed.), People, plants, and justice: the politics of nature conservation General Armbrust, Walter (ed.), Mass mediations: new approaches to popular culture in the Middle East and beyond Dupont, Veronique, Emma Tarlo & Denis Vidal (eds), Delhi: urban space and human destinies King, Victor T. (ed.), Rural development and social science research: case studies from Borneo (Borneo Res. Counc. Proc. 6) Privratsky, Bruce G., Muslim Turkistan: Kazak religion and collective memory Van Beek, Martijn, Kristoffer Brix Bertelsen & Poul Pedersen (eds), Ladakh: culture, history, and development between Himalaya and Karakoram (Recent research on Ladakh 8) Winzeler, Robert L. (ed.), Indigenous architecture in Borneo: traditional patterns and new developments (Borneo Res. Counc. Proc. 5) Human evolution Agustí, Jorge, Lorenzo Rook & Peter Andrews (eds), The evolution of Neogene terrestrial ecosystems in Europe (Hominoid Evol. clim. chge Eur 1) Curtiss, Garniss, Carl Swisher & Roger Lewin, Java man: how two geologists changed the history of human evolution de Bonis, Louis, George Koufos & Peter Andrews (eds), Phylogeny of the Neogene hominoid primates of Eurasia (Hominoid Evol. clim. chge Eur. 2) Ghiglieri, Michael P., The dark side of man: tracing the origins of male violence Legal anthropology Just, Peter, Dou Donggo justice: conflict and morality in an Indonesian society Kahn, Paul W., The cultural study of law: reconstructing legal scholarship Niezen, Ronald, Defending the land: sover– eignty and forest life in James Bay Cree society (Cult. Surv. Stud. Ethn. Chge) Peterson, Nicolas & Will Sanders (eds), Citizenship and indigenous Australians: changing conceptions and possibilities (Reshaping Australian Institutions ser.) Method Guneratne, Katharine Bjork, In the circle of the dance: notes of an outsider in Nepal Mihesuh, Devon A. (ed.), Natives and academics: researching and writing about American Indians Mukherji, Partha Nath (ed.), Methodology in social research: dilemmas and perspectives: essays in honour of Ramkrishna Mukherjee Newman, Paul & Martha Ratliff (eds), Linguistic fieldwork Social anthropology Fonseca, Isabel, Bury me standing: the Gypsies and their journey Forshee, Jill, Between the folds: stories of cloth, lives, and travels from Sumba Hua, Cai (transl. Asti Hustvedt), A society without fathers or husbands: the Na of China Jackson, Peter, Michelle Lowe, Danielle Miller & Frank Mort (eds), Commercial cultures: economies, practices, spaces (Leisure, consumption and culture) McKnight, David, People, Countries, and the Rainbow Serpent: systems of classification among the Lardil of Mornington Island (Oxford studs. in anthrop. ling. 12) Palerm Viqueira, Jacinta & Tomás Martínez Saldaña (eds), Antologia sobre pequeño riego, Vol. II (Organizaciones Autogestivas) Pottier, Johan, Anthropology of food: the social dynamics of food security. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Presents a list of books about anthropology. "New Year Celebrations in Central China in Late Imperial Times," by Göran Aijmer; "Legal Bodies: Race, Criminality and Colonialism in South Asia," by Claire Anderson; "Cultivating Arctic Landscapes: Knowing and Managing Animals in the Circumpolar North," edited by David Anderson and Mark Nuttall.

Presents a list of books received the "Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute" as of March 2004. "The Hold Life Has: Coca and Cultural Identity in an Andean Community," end edition, by Catherine J. Allen; "Affirmative Exclusion: Cultural Pluralism and the Rule of Custom in France," by Jean-Loup Amselle; "The Neanderthal's Necklace: In Search of the First Thinkers," by Juan Luis Arsuaga; "The Ethics of Anthropology: Debates and Dilemmas," edited by Pat Caplan.

Presents a list of books related to anthropology.

Presents a list of books to be included in the publication of the 'Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute' periodical. 'Masculine Domination,' by P. Bourdieu; 'African Civilizations: An Archaeological Perspective,' second edition, by G. Connah; 'Human Societies: An Introduction,' by A. De Swaan.

Presents a list of books related to anthropology that were published in several journals. The books include "Political Ecology in a Yucatec Maya Community," by E. N. Anderson, "The Logic of Environmentalism: Anthropology, Ecology and Postcoloniality," by Vassos Argyrou, and "The Cradle of Humanity: Prehistoric Art and Culture," by Georges Bataille.

A list of books related to anthropology is presented, which include "Health Care in Maya Guatemala: Confronting Medical Pluralism in a Developing Country," edited by Walter Randolph Adams and John P. Hawkins, "Iraqi Women: Untold Stories From 1948 to the Present," by Nadje Sadig Al-Ali, and "Mixed Method Data Collection Strategies," by William G. Axinn and Lisa D. Pearce.

This article documents the beginning of the intellectual companionship between the founder of ethnomethodology, Harold Garfinkel, and Edward Rose, who is most often associated with his program of "ethno‐inquiries." I present results from archival research focusing on the contacts and collaborations between Rose and Garfinkel in the years 1955–1965. First, I describe the review process for Rose and Felton's paper, submitted to the American Sociological Review in 1955, which Garfinkel reviewed and after Rose's rebuttal recommended for publication. The paper induced Garfinkel to write an extensive commentary that has remained unpublished. Second, I discuss the 1958 New Mexico conference sponsored by the Air Force, which was an opportunity for Rose and Garfinkel to work together on topics related to common‐sense knowledge and scientific knowledge. Third, I give an overview of the ethnomethodological conferences in 1962 and 1963, supported by an Air Force grant written collaboratively by Rose and Garfinkel. Here I focus primarily on Rose's research on "small languages," which stimulated many discussions among the early ethnomethodologists. Rose's work and exchanges with Garfinkel demonstrate the former's affinity for miniaturization as a research approach and search for ways to empiricize topics of sociological theory in locally observable settings. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Presents a list of several books related to anthropology. "Beyond Lines of Control: Performance and Politics on the Disputed Borders of Ladakh, India"; "Creole Economics: Caribbean Cunning Under the French Flag"; "Rethinking the Mediterranean"; "Landlords and Lodgers: Socio-Spatial Organization in an Accra Community."

Gregory Bateson was one of the last and most distinguished products of the school of anthropology that Haddon and Rivers created in Cambridge after the Torres Strait Expedition. Beginning his career shortly after Rivers' death, Bateson used the interwar years to create a theoretical approach that continued and deflected that of Haddon and Rivers. His major ethnography from this period, Naven, evidenced his complex academic positioning between the legacy of Rivers and the new paradigm emerging around Malinowski and Radcliffe-Brown. After the Second World War, Bateson's intellectual project emerged as even closer to Rivers' in both psychological and evolutionary dimensions. © 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A bibliography of books and films on anthropology is presented.

The article presents abstract on anthropology topics including spondylolysis in prehistoric human remains, dentine thickness in XXXX females' permanent teeth, and Bergmann's Rule and the Thrifty Genotype, to be presented at the American Association of Physical Anthropologists' 64th annual meeting.

A list of anthropology-related books received for review is presented, including "The Making of Psychotherapists: An Anthropological Analysis," by James Davies, "Under Construction: Making Homeland Security at the Local Level," by Kerry B. Fosher, and "Hindu Divorce: A Legal Anthropology," by Livia Holden.

A list of the books about anthropology which were received by the Royal Institute of Anthropological Institute is presented.

A list of books related to anthropology is presented.

Presents a list of books related to anthropology.

A list of books received by the "Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute" is presented, including "Money and Violence: Financial Self-Help Groups in a South African Township," by Erik Bähre, "Social Change and the Evolition of Ceramic Production and Distribution in a Maya Community," by Dean E. Arnold and Culture, Rhetoric and the Vicissitudes of Life," edited by Michael Carrithers.

A list of books about anthropology is presented. It includes "Millennial Monsters: Japanese Toys and the Global Imagination," by Anne Allison, "Animals and the Maya in Southeast Mexico," edited by Vered Amit and Noel Dyck, "The World of an Anthropologist," by Marc Augé and Jean-Paul Colleyn and "The Language and Sexuality Reader," edited by Deborah Cameron and Don Kulick.

A bibliography on the subject of anthropology is presented which includes the books "Bad Souls: Madness and Responsibility in Modern Greece," by Elizabeth Anne Davis, "The Cult and Science of Public Health: A Sociological Investigation," by Kevin Dew, and "Revolutionary Medicine: Health and Body in Post-Soviet Cuba," by Sean P. Brotherton.

A list of the books and received by the journal is presented which includes "Talking to the Enemy: Violent Extremism, Sacred Values and What it Means to be Human," by Scott Atran, "The making of Language," by Mike Beaken and "Stirring the Pot: A History of African Cuisine," by James C. McCann.

A bibliography of books and films received for review by the "Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute" as of September 2013 is presented.

A list of books received for review is presented, including "Comparing Cities: The Middle East and South Asia," edited by Kamran Asdar Ali and Martina Rieker, "Neoliberal Frontiers: An Ethnography of Sovereignty in West Africa," by Brenda Chalfin, and "Social Brain, Distributed Mind," edited by Robin Dunbar, Clive Gamble and John Gowlett.