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1 online resource (xvii, 341 pages) : illustrations. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Series |
Cambridge studies in biological and evolutionary anthropology
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Cambridge studies in biological and evolutionary anthropology.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
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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 These largely untapped resources however reveal how the study of human biology through historical documents can expand the horizons of anthropological resarch. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Medical anthropology -- Archival resources -- Congresses.
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Medical anthropology. |
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Archival resources. |
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Physical anthropology -- Archival resources -- Congresses.
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Physical anthropology. |
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Anthropology, Physical. |
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Archives. |
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Research. |
| Genre/Form |
Congress.
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Electronic books.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Added Author |
Herring, Ann, 1951-
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Swedlund, Alan C.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Human biologists in the archives. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003 0521801044 (DLC) 2002024452 (OCoLC)49385930 |
| ISBN |
051106330X (electronic book) |
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9780511063305 (electronic book) |
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051117845X (electronic book) |
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9780511178450 (electronic book) |
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9780511542534 (electronic book) |
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0511542534 (electronic book) |
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9780511071768 (electronic book) |
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0511071760 (electronic book) |
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0511056974 |
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9780511056970 |
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0521801044 (Cloth) |
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1139147013 |
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9781139147019 |
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