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Does Height Matter?
Tags: Anthropology, health, Media, medical anthropology
Added on Sunday, May 15th, 2011 to Press Watch sections.
The New York Times’ Room for Debate opinion section asks “Do We Want to Be Supersize Humans? If human bodies become taller, bigger and longer-living — is that progress?” Alexandra Brewis, a medical anthropologist, answers: Height conveys all…
Medical Anthropology for the Skin
Tags: Anthropology, beauty, Media, medical anthropology
Added on Thursday, April 7th, 2011 to Press Watch sections.
Developed by cultural anthropologist, Dr. Tramayne Butler, AnthroSpa Logic combines beauty secrets from around the world and uses a combination of exotic, organic ingredients used for centuries by native peoples both medicinally and in beauty…
Courting La Paz, Part 1
Tags: Bolivia, chronic bodily pain, fieldwork, indigenous medicine, La Paz, language training, medical anthropology
Added on Wednesday, August 11th, 2010 to Fieldnotes sections.
When one arrives at a new fieldsite, the only things one can know with any certainty are the changes in one’s own experience. Lacunas of knowledge burst into one’s consciouness like the appearance of crystal-clear lakes dotting the ground…
Findings, Part 1: sample from Issue #2 of Anthropology Now
Tags: caring, emerging anthropology research, medical anthropology, race, tourism
Added on Sunday, October 4th, 2009 to Findings sections.
Findings is a new, regular column contribution appearing in the magazine, Anthropology Now. Each column highlights emerging anthropological research through a series of short reviews co-authored and co-edited by a diverse student collective from The…
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