Browsing Faculty of Arts and Sciences by FAS Department "Anthropology"
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The brachymorph mouse and human evolution
(John Wiley & Sons, 2005)The degree to which evolutionary change in the cranial base was an integrative influence on other aspects of craniofacial evolution in hominids is a subject of much debate. Using a mouse model, we test the hypothesis that ... -
Breed Differences in Domestic Dogs' (Canis familiaris) Comprehension of Human Communicative Signals
(John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2009)Recent research suggests that some human-like social skills evolved in dogs (Canis familiaris) during domestication as an incidental by-product of selection for “tame” forms of behavior. It is still possible, however, that ... -
Bronze, Jade, Gold, and Ivory: Valuable Objects in Ancient Sichuan
(Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press, 2012)If negotiations about value are essentially political (Graeber 2001:115), our understanding of past political systems is illuminated by an understanding of how and through what processes value is attributed to objects in ... -
Building Subjects: Landscapes of Forced Resettlement in the Zaña and Chamán Valleys, Peru, 16th-17th Centuries C.E.
(2013-03-14)This dissertation examines transformations in the political landscapes of 16th and 17th century colonial Peru, focusing in particular on the effects of the reducción forced resettlement movement on native communities in ... -
Caged: Intimate Violence and the Search for Sovereignty at the Margins of the City
(2016-05-19)“Caged” is an ethnographic investigation of intimate partner violence in Usme, a peripheral district of Bogotá, Colombia, where 37% of women report having experienced physical violence by a partner and 80% report some form ... -
Can DNA ‘Witness’ Race?: Forensic Uses of an Imperfect Ancestry Testing Technology
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The Cancer War(d): Onco-Nationhood in Post-Traumatic Rwanda
(2016-05-20)In Africa, the effects of the HIV/AIDS pandemic, rapidly expanding industrial and extractive economies, uncontrolled economic growth, environmental and lifestyle changes, and the rising age of populations with better access ... -
Caregiving as Moral Experience
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Caregiving: The Odyssey of Becoming More Human
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Catastrophe and Caregiving: The Failure of Medicine as an Art
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The Chaine Operatoire Approach in Middle Paleolithic Archaeology
(University of Chicago Press, 2009)Since the pioneering days of Paleolithic archaeology in western Europe, the making of stone tools has received special attention. Numerous studies were aimed at creating systematic typologies of artifacts based on descriptions ... -
Commentary on Alex Cohen et al: "Questioning an Axiom: Better Prognosis for Schizophrenia in the Developing World"
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Community-specific evaluation of tool affordances in wild chimpanzees
(Nature Publishing Group, 2011)The notion of animal culture, defined as socially transmitted community-specific behaviour patterns, remains controversial, notably because the definition relies on surface behaviours without addressing underlying cognitive ... -
Comparing Neanderthal and Modern Human Long Bone Loading History from Cross-Sectional Geometry
(John Wiley & Sons, 2003)We evaluate here efforts to compare archaic and modern human limb loading from long bone cross sectional. Recent studies find that cross sectional properties (I, J, Z) calculated from second moments of area (SMA) are similar ... -
Comparison of Heart Rate Monitor and Accelerometer for Measuring Energy Expenditure Under Field Conditions
(John Wiley & Sons, 2009)Life history models predict differential energy allocation patterns among growth, maintenance, and reproduction under varying ecological conditions. The assessment of energy expenditure is one important tool in quantifying ... -
Complex Interactions Between Estrogen, Strain, and Exercise-Induced Periosteal Bone Growth
(John Wiley & Sons, 2007)Understanding the relationship between bone strain and bone growth is critical for interpreting variations in skeletal robusticity. Recently we presented a model for interactions between estrogen, strain, and periosteal ... -
The Continued Creation of Communities of Practice – Finding Variation in the Western Zhou Expansion (1046-771 BCE)
(2016-05-04)This work explores the question of when and how China became Chinese by studying state sponsored colonial expansion and intercultural interactions during the Western Zhou period (1046-771 BCE). Because Confucius and his ... -
Control and Function of Arm Swing in Human Walking and Running
(The Company of Biologists, 2009)We investigated the control and function of arm swing in human walking and running to test the hypothesis that the arms act as passive mass dampers powered by movement of the lower body, rather than being actively driven ... -
Control of Fire in the Paleolithic: Evaluating the Cooking Hypothesis
(University of Chicago Press, 2017-08)According to current evidence, Homo sapiens was unable to survive on a diet of raw wild foods. Because cooked diets have large physiological and behavioral consequences, a critical question for understanding human evolution ... -
Control of Jaw Movements in Two Species of Macropodines (Macropus eugenii and Macropus rufus)
(Elsevier, 2007)The masticatory motor patterns of three tammar wallabies and two red kangaroos were determined by analyzing the pattern of electromyographic (EMG) activity of the jaw adductors and correlating it with lower jaw movements, ...