Histories of American Physical Anthropology in the Twentieth Century

by Little, Michael A.; Kennedy, Kenneth A. R.; Brace, C Loring; Brown, Kaye; Cartmill, Matt; Giles, Eugene; Kaplan, Bernice; R. Kennedy, Kenneth A.; Larsen, Clark Spencer; Marks, Jonathan; Ortner, Donald J.; Relethford, John H.; Stini, William A.; E. Szathmá

• ISBN13: 9780739135112
• ISBN10: 0739135112
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-12-23
• Publisher: Lexington Books

Summary

Histories of American Physical Anthropology in the Twentieth Century chronicles the growth and progress of the field of physical anthropology in the United States, from its professional origins in the late 1800s up to its modern transformation in the late 1900s, when it became known as biological anthropology. Michael A. Little and Kenneth A. R. Kennedy have assembled an impressive group of thirteen scholars and anthropologists to elaborate on some of the various people, ideas, traditions, and organizations that have contributed to the advancement of biological anthropology, which today focuses on the study of human variation and evolution. They highlight episodes that contributed to the evolution of biological anthropology into a science, touching on the shift from antiquated nineteenth-century practices to the contemporary application of modern scientific inquiry within the field.

Author Biography

Michael A. Little is distinguished professor of anthropology at the State University of New York at Binghamton. Kenneth A. R. Kennedy is professor emeritus in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Cornell University.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
Contributors to the Volume	p. xi
Introduction to the History of American Physical Anthropology	p. 1
"Physical" Anthropology at the Turn of the Last Century	p. 25
Franz Boas's Place in American Physical Anthropology and Its Institutions	p. 55
AleÜ Hrdlička and the Founding of the American Journal of Physical Anthropology: 1918	p. 87
Principal Figures in Early 20th-century Physical Anthropology: With Special Treatment of Forensic Anthropology	p. 105
The Founding of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists: 1930	p. 127
Principal Figures in Physical Anthropology Before and During World War II	p. 141
The Immediate Postwar Years: The Yearbook of Physical Anthropology and the Summer Seminars	p. 155
Sherwood L. Washburn and "The New Physical Anthropology"	p. 173
The Two 20th-century Crises of Racial Anthropology	p. 187
Race and the Conflicts within the Profession of Physical Anthropology During the 1950s and 1960s	p. 207
75 Years of the Annual Meetings of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, 1930-2004	p. 221
Description, Hypothesis Testing, and Conceptual Advances in Physical Anthropology: Have We Moved On?	p. 233
Appendix	p. 243
Index	p. 249
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