American Anthropologist
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Distribution Patterns of Tropical Plant Foods as an Evolutionary Stimulus to Primate Mental Development
Tập 83 Số 3 - Trang 534-548 - 1981
Primates 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 able
to remember the...
The Truth from the Body: Medical Certificates as Ultimate Evidence for Asylum Seekers
Tập 107 Số 4 - Trang 597-608 - 2005
Whether 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 seekers...
Hunting and Gathering in Tropical Rain Forest: Is It Possible?
Tập 91 Số 1 - Trang 59-82 - 1989
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. This
art...
Quantitative Research in Proxemic Behavior1
Tập 68 Số 4 - Trang 971-985 - 1966
Proxemics 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 these hyp...
Cultural Factors and the Response to Pain: A Review1
Tập 70 Số 3 - Trang 494-501 - 1968
A 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 experimental contr...
Origins of Specialized Pastoral Production in East Africa
Tập 92 Số 4 - Trang 873-894 - 1990
The 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 as a res...
Are Mixed Economies Persistent or Transitional? Evidence Using Social Networks from Arctic Alaska
Tập 118 Số 1 - Trang 121-129 - 2016
ABSTRACTTwo 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 transitional, and
Native communities a...
Cultivating an Ecological and Social Balance: Elite Demands and Commoner Knowledge in Ancient Ma‘ohi Agriculture, Society Islands
Tập 113 Số 2 - Trang 319-335 - 2011
ABSTRACT 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 data as well as the
motivations ...