Contents
Foreword / Richard Levins and Richard Lewontin
Acknowledgments
Series Introduction / Emilio F. Moran
Part 1. Historical Overview and Theoretical Developments
1. Traversing the Chasm between Biology and Culture: An Introduction / Alan H. Goodman and Thomas L. Leatherman
2. The Evolution of Human Adaptability Paradigms: Toward a Biology of Poverty / R. Brooke Thomas
3. Political Economy and Social Fields / William Roseberry
4. The Development of Critical Medical Anthropology: Implications for Biological Anthropology / Merrill Singer
Part 2. Case Studies and Examples: Past Populations
5. Linking Political Economy and Human Biology: Lessons from North American Archaeology / Dean J. Saitta
6. The Biological Consequences of Inequality in Antiquity / Alan H. Goodman
7. Owning the Sins of the Past: Historical Trends, Missed Opportunities, and New Directions in the Study of Human Remains / Debra L. Martin
8. Nature, Nurture, and the Determinants of Infant Mortality: A Case Study from Massachusetts, 1830–1920 / Alan C. Swedlund and Helen Ball
9. Unequal in Death as in Life: A Sociopolitical Analysis of the 1813 Mexico City Typhus Epidemic / Lourdes Márquez Morfin
Part 3. Case Studies and Examples: Contemporary Populations
10. Illness, Social Relations, and Household Production and Reproduction in the Andes of Southern Peru / Thomas L. Leatherman
11. On the (Un)Natural History of the Tupí-Mondé Indians: Bioanthropology and Change in the Brazilian Amazon / Ricardo V. Santos and Carlos E. A. Coimbra Jr.
12. The Political Ecology of Population Increase and Malnutrition in Southern Honduras / Billie R. DeWalt
13. The Biocultural Impact of Tourism on Mayan Communities / Magali Daltabuit and Thomas L. Leatherman
14. Poverty and Nutrition in Eastern Kentucky: The Political Economy of Childhood Growth / Deborah L. Crooks
Part 4. Steps toward a Critical Biological Anthropology
15. Race, Racism, and Anthropology / George J. Armelagos and Alan H. Goodman
16. Beyond European Enlightenment: Toward a Critical and Humanistic Human Biology / Michael L. Blakey
17. Latin American Social Medicine and the Politics of Theory / Lynn M. Morgan
18. Nature, Political Ecology, and Social Practice: Toward an Academic and Political Agenda / Søren Hvalkof and Arturo Escobar
19. What Could Be: Biocultural Anthropology for the Next Generation / Gavin A. Smith and R. Brooke Thomas
Contributors
Index