American Anthropologist
SCOPUS (SonsInc.)SSCI-ISI
0002-7294
1548-1433
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Cơ quản chủ quản: WILEY , Wiley-Blackwell
Lĩnh vực:
AnthropologyArts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
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Distribution Patterns of Tropical Plant Foods as an Evolutionary Stimulus to Primate Mental DevelopmentPrimates are noted for their mental abilities but the selective basis for such traits has remained obscure. It is hypothesized that the element of predictability associated with the spatial and temporal distribution patterns of plant foods in tropical forests has served to stimulate mental development in primates taking much of their food from the first trophic level. Primates...
Tập 83 Số 3 - Trang 534-548 - 1981
The Truth from the Body: Medical Certificates as Ultimate Evidence for Asylum SeekersWhether through traditional law or modern torture, the body has always been a privileged site on which to demonstrate the evidence of power. But for immigrants, the poor, and, more generally, the dominated—all of whom have to prove their eligibility to certain social rights—it has also become the place that displays the evidence of truth. In France, as immigration control increases, asylum... ... hiện toàn bộ
Tập 107 Số 4 - Trang 597-608 - 2005
Hunting and Gathering in Tropical Rain Forest: Is It Possible?Hunters and gatherers living in tropical forests represent an important part of the total range of variation among contemporary hunting and gathering societies. Studies of tropical forest hunting and gathering peoples have contributed to our perceptions of the foraging way of life. Yet no peoples have ever been directly observed living independently of agriculture in tropical rain forest. ... ... hiện toàn bộ
Tập 91 Số 1 - Trang 59-82 - 1989
Quantitative Research in Proxemic Behavior1Proxemics is the study of how man structures microspace, how he relates physically to other persons with whom he is interacting, and what is communicated by these physical relationships. Edward Hall, who coined the term “proxemics” and devised a system of notation for recording proxemic behavior, reports many impressionistic observations on Arab and American proxemic differences. To test t... ... hiện toàn bộ
Tập 68 Số 4 - Trang 971-985 - 1966
Cultural Factors and the Response to Pain: A Review1A review of the literature on the effects of ethnocultural factors on the response to pain revealed a paucity of information. The few existing experimental studies yield equivocal results as to the significance of such factors and suffer from anthropological naivete. On the other hand, only one anthropological report dealing specifically with this problem was found, but it lacks experiment... ... hiện toàn bộ
Tập 70 Số 3 - Trang 494-501 - 1968
Origins of Specialized Pastoral Production in East AfricaThe results of recent archeological research in the Loita‐Mara area of Kenya offer new information on the timing and process of the development of pastoralism in East Africa. They suggest that a pattern of specialized pastoral production, similar to that of contemporary East African pastoralists such as the Maasai, was present in parts of East Africa 2,000 years ago. It may have developed ... ... hiện toàn bộ
Tập 92 Số 4 - Trang 873-894 - 1990
Are Mixed Economies Persistent or Transitional? Evidence Using Social Networks from Arctic AlaskaABSTRACT Two opposing narratives describe future prospects for mixed economic livelihoods in Alaska and the broader Arctic. On the one hand, Arctic anthropologists have written about the emergence of persistent mixed economies in Native communities. A second narrative echoes modernization assumptions and assumes that “subsistence is dying,” mixed economies are trans... ... hiện toàn bộ
Tập 118 Số 1 - Trang 121-129 - 2016
Cultivating an Ecological and Social Balance: Elite Demands and Commoner Knowledge in Ancient Ma‘ohi Agriculture, Society IslandsABSTRACT Anthropological views of past human–environmental interactions are influenced by the data sets used and the subjects of study. In this article, we seek a balanced view of ancient human–environmental interactions in the Society Islands. We explore the social and ecological contexts of agricultural production by incorporating archaeological and ethnographic d...
Tập 113 Số 2 - Trang 319-335 - 2011