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Human biologists in the archives, demography, health, nutrition, and genetics in historical populations, edited by D. Ann Herring and Alan C. Swedlund

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Human biologists in the archives

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edited by D. Ann Herring and Alan C. Swedlund

Cambridge studies in biological and evolutionary anthropology, 35Cambridge Social Sciences eBooks

demography, health, nutrition, and genetics in historical populations

Many physical anthropologists study populations using data that come primarily from the historical record. For this volume's authors, the classic anthropological 'field' is not the glamour of an exotic locale, but the sometimes tedium of the dusty back rooms of libraries, archives and museum collections. This book tells of the way in which archival data inform anthropological questions about human biology and health. The authors present a diverse array of human biological evidence from a variety of sources including the archaeological record, medical collections, church records, contemporary health and growth data and genetic information from the descendants of historical populations. The papers demonstrate how the analysis of historical documents expands the horizons of research in human biology, extends the longitudinal analysis of microevolutionary and social processes into the present and enhances our understanding of the human condition.--, Provided by publisher

Human biologists in the archives: demography, health, nutrition and genetics in historical populations / Alan C. Swedlund and D. Ann Herring -- The use of archives in the study of microevolution: changing demography and epidemiology in Escazú, Costa Rica / Lorena Madrigal -- Anthropometric data and population history / John H. Relethford -- For everything there is a season: Chumash Indian births, marriages, and deaths at the Alta California missions / Phillip L. Walker and John R. Johnson -- Children of the poor: infant mortality in the Erie County Almshouse during the mid nineteenth century / Rosanne L. Higgins -- Worked to the bone: the biomechanical consequences of 'labor therapy' at a nineteenth century asylum / Shawn M. Phillips -- Monitored growth: anthropometrics and health history records at a private New England middle school, 1935-1960 / Lynette Leidy Sievert -- Scarlet fever epidemics of the nineteenth century: a case of evolved pathogenic virulence? / Alan C. Swedlund and Alison K. DontaThe ecology of a health crisis: Gibraltar and the 1865 cholera epidemic / Lawrence A. Sawchuk and Stacie D.A. Burke -- War and population composition in Åland, Finland / James H. Mielke -- Infectious diseases in the historical archives: a modeling approach / Lisa Sattenspiel -- Where were the women? / Anne L. Grauer -- Malnutrition among northern peoples of Canada in the 1940s: an ecological and economic disaster / D. Ann Herring, Sylvia Abonyi and Robert D. Hoppa -- Archival research in physical anthropology / Malcolm T. Smith