Anthropology Scholarly Works: Recent submissions
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Immunoglobulin haplotype frequencies in Anabaptist population samples: Kansas and Nebraska Mennonites and Indiana Amish
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Anthropological Genetics in the 21st Century: Introduction
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Population Substructure and Patterns of Quantitative Variation among the Gollas of Southern Andhra Pradesh, India
(Wayne State University Press, 2001-04-01)Population substructure and biological differentiation was studied among the Golla, a pastoral caste living in the southern areas of Andhra Pradesh (AP) in India, using 11 anthropometric measurements and 20 quantitative ... -
Genomic Diversity at Thirteen Short Tandem Repeat Loci in a Substructured Caste Population, Golla, of Southern Andhra Pradesh, India
(Wayne State University Press, 2001-04-01)Genomic diversity based on 13 short tandem repeat (STR) loci was studied in seven population groups of a substructured Golla caste from Chittoor district in southern Andhra Pradesh, India. These groups are traditionally ... -
Genetic Structure of Mongolic-Speaking Kalmyks
(Wayne State University Press, 2001-12-01)Genetic polymorphisms of blood groups ABO and RH D, serum proteins HP, TF, and GC, and red cell enzymes ACP1, PGM1, ESD, GLO1, and SOD-A have been reported for three tribes (Torguts, Derbets, and Buzavs) of the Volga’s ... -
Heritability of anthropometric phenotypes in caste populations of Visakhapatnam, India
(Wayne State University Press, 2002-06-01)In this study, we used anthropometric data from six Andhra caste populations to examine heritability patterns of 23 anthropometric phenotypes (linear, craniofacial, and soft tissue measures) with special reference to caste ... -
Genetic Evidence for the Phylogenetic Relationship between Na-Dene and Yeniseian Speakers
(Wayne State University Press, 2002-12-01)Abstract Ruhlen's hypothesis, based on linguistic evidence, for a common phylogenetic origin of Na-Dene and Yeniseian speakers is tested using genetic data. Gene frequency data for the Kets, the only surviving Yeniseian ... -
The Art of Seduction and Affect Economy: Neoliberal Class Struggle and Gender Politics in a Tokyo Host Club
(University of Illinois, 2008-01-01)My dissertation investigates the underground world of Japan’s increasingly popular host club scene, where mostly young, working-class men “sell” romance, love, and sometimes sex to indulge their female clients’ fantasy, ... -
Representations, Ritual, & Social Renewal: Essays In Africanist Medical Anthropology
(2014-08-26)The essays in this collection reflect the author’s thinking about sickness, health, and healing in Central Africa in the early years of the 21st century.“Representations, ritual, and social renewal” encapsulates a perspective ... -
Beyond the skin bag: on the moral responsibility of extended agencies
(Springer, 2009-03)The growing prominence of computers in contemporary life, often seemingly with minds of their own, invites rethinking the question of moral responsibility. If the moral responsibility for an act lies with the subject that ... -
The Jurisprudence of the Christian Right: Teachings from Regent and Liberty University Law Schools
(Oxford University Press, 2009-10-15)No issue is more hotly contested in the culture wars than the proper place of religion in public life. On the one side are those who insist that religion is a purely private matter with no place in government. In contrast ... -
Support Groups, Marriage, and the Management of Ambiguity among HIV-Positive Women in Northern Nigeria
(The John Hopkins University Press, 2009-03)In the context of the African HIV epidemic, support groups are not simply spaces for discussions of social and health well-being; neither are they institutions functioning solely to cultivate self-responsible and economically ... -
Ancient human genome sequence of an extinct Palaeo-Eskimo
(Macmilan Publishers, 2010-02-11)We report here the genome sequence of an ancient human. Obtained from ∼4,000-year-old permafrost-preserved hair, the genome represents a male individual from the first known culture to settle in Greenland. Sequenced to an ... -
The first occurrence of a toxodont (Mammalia, Notoungulata) in the United States
(Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, 2013-01-08)Toxodonts were a group of large-sized notoungulates of South American origin. They were diverse and widespread in South America in deposits ranging in age from late Oligocene to late Pleistocene. Sparse remains have been ... -
Balinese Y-Chromosome Perspective on the Peopling of Indonesia: Genetic Contributions from Pre-Neolithic Hunter- Gatherers, Austronesian Farmers, and Indian Traders
(Wayne State University Press, 2005-02-01)The island of Bali lies near the center of the southern chain of islands in the Indonesian archipelago, which served as a stepping-stone for early migrations of hunter-gatherers to Melanesia and Australia and for more ... -
A Polynesian Motif on the Y Chromosome: Population Structure in Remote Oceania
(Wayne State University Press, 2007-10-01)The Polynesian motif, a mitochondrial DNA marker of ancestral Polynesian communities, has filled a critical role in reconstructions of remote Oceanic history. Although the motif provides an effective narrative for Polynesian ... -
HLA Genes in the Chuvashian Population from European Russia: Admixture of Central European and Mediterranean Populations
(Wayne State University Press, 2003-06-01)HLA alleles have been determined for the first time in individuals from the Chuvashian population by DNA typing and sequencing. HLA-A, -B, -DR, and -DQ allele frequencies and extended haplotypes have also been determined, ... -
Autosomal STR Variation in a Basque Population: Vizcaya Province
(Wayne State University Press, 2006-10-01)We have characterized 68 unrelated Basque individuals from Vizcaya, Spain, for 13 tetrameric short tandem repeat (STR) loci: CSF1PO, D3S1358, D5S818, D7S820, D8S1179, D13S317, D16S539, D18S51, D21S11, FGA, TH01, TPOX, and ... -
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Introduction: Origins and Settlement of the Indigenous Populations of the Aleutian Archipelago
(Wayne State University Press, 2010-10-01)Dixie West, Dennis O’Rourke, and Michael H. Crawford offer an introduction to the special issue focused on the origins and settlement of the indigenous populations of the Aleutian Archipelago.