Human Biologists in the Archives: Demography, Health, Nutrition and Genetics in Historical Populations - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0521801044 ISBN 13 : 9780521801041

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2002

Synopsis

Many physical anthropologists study populations using data that come primarily from the historical record. For this volume's authors, the classic anthropological 'field' is not the glamour of an exotic locale, but the sometimes tedium of the dusty back rooms of libraries, archives and museum collections. This book tells of the way in which archival data inform anthropological questions about human biology and health. The authors present a diverse array of human biological evidence from a variety of sources including the archaeological record, medical collections, church records, contemporary health and growth data and genetic information from the descendants of historical populations. The papers demonstrate how the analysis of historical documents expands the horizons of research in human biology, extends the longitudinal analysis of microevolutionary and social processes into the present and enhances our understanding of the human condition.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

D. Ann Herring is Associate Professor of Anthropology at McMaster University, Ontario.

Alan C. Swedlund is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0521801044
• ISBN 13: 9780521801041
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 360
• Éditeur: Herring D. Ann, Swedlund Alan C.
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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