Building a New Biocultural Synthesis: Political-Economic Perspectives on Human Biology

Contents

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: Xl xvii xix 3 43 75 93 Lessons from North American Archaeology 127 Dean J. Saitta viii Contents 6. The Biological Consequences of Inequality in Antiquity 147 Alan H Goodman 7. Owning the Sins of the Past: Historical Trends, Missed Opportunities, and New Directions in the Study of Human Remains 171 Debra L. Martin 8. Nature, Nurture, and the Determinants of Infant Mortality: A Case Study from Massachusetts, 1830-1920 191 Alan C. Swedlund and Helen Ball 9. Unequal in Death as in Life: A Sociopolitical Analysis of the 1813 Mexico City Typhus Epidemic 229 Lourdes Marquez Morfin Part 3. Case Studies and Examples: Contemporary Populations 10. Illness, Social Relations, and Household Production and Reproduction in the Andes of Southern Peru 245 Thomas L. Leatherman 11. On the (Un)Natural History of the Tupi-Monde Indians: Bioanthropology and Change in the Brazilian Amazon 269 Ricardo V Santos and Carlos E. A. Coimbra Jr. 12. The Political Ecology of Population Increase and Malnutrition in Southern Honduras 295 Billie R. DeWalt 13. The Biocultural Impact ofTourism on Mayan Communities 317 Magali Daltabuit and Thomas L. Leatherman Contents ix 14. Poverty and Nutrition in Eastern Kentucky: The Political Economy of Childhood Growth 339 Deborah L. Crooks Part 4. Steps toward a Critical Biological Anthropology 15. Race, Racism, and Anthropology 359 George J. Armelagos and Alan H. Goodman 16. Beyond European Enlightenment: Toward a Critical and Humanistic Human Biology 379 Michael L. Blakey 17. Latin American Social Medicine and the Politics of Theory 407 Lynn M. Morgan 18. Nature, Political Ecology, and Social Practice: Toward an Academic and Political Agenda 425 Soren Hvalkofand Arturo Escobar 19. What Could Be: Biocultural Anthropology for the Next Generation 451 Gavin A. Smith and R. Brooke Thomas Contributors 475 Index 479 ...