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Title Human biologists in the archives : demography, health, nutrition, and genetics in historical populations / edited by D. Ann Herring and Alan C. Swedlund
Published Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 341 pages) : illustrations
Series Cambridge studies in biological and evolutionary anthropology
Cambridge studies in biological and evolutionary anthropology.
Contents Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Foreword; Acknowledgements; 1 Human biologists in the archives: demography, health, nutrition and genetics in historical populations; 2 The use of archives in the study of microevolution: changing demography and epidemiology in Escazú, Costa Rica; 3 Anthropometric data and population history; 4 For everything there is a season: Chumash Indian births, marriages, and deaths at the Alta California missions; 5 Children of the poor: infant mortality in the Erie County Almshouse during the mid nineteenth century
6 Worked to the bone: the biomechanical consequences of 'labor therapy' at a nineteenth century asylum7 Monitored growth: anthropometrics and health history records at a private New England middle school, 1935-1960; 8 Scarlet fever epidemics of the nineteenth century: a case of evolved pathogenic virulence?; 9 The ecology of a health crisis: Gibraltar and the 1865 cholera epidemic; 10 War and population composition in Åland
Summary In this book, the 'field' is not an exotic locale but the sometimes dusty back rooms of libraries, archives and museums. These largely untapped resources however reveal how the study of human biology through historical documents can expand the horizons of anthropological research
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Medical anthropology -- Archival resources -- Congresses
Physical anthropology -- Archival resources -- Congresses
Physical anthropology.
Research.
Anthropology, Physical
Archives
Research
physical anthropology.
research (function)
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
Research
Physical anthropology
Genre/Form proceedings (reports)
Conference papers and proceedings
Conference papers and proceedings.
Actes de congrès.
Form Electronic book
Author Herring, Ann, 1951-
Swedlund, Alan C
ISBN 051106330X
9780511063305
051117845X
9780511178450
9780511542534
0511542534
9780511071768
0511071760
9780521801041
0521801044