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Health care professional with anthropological bent

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Education • Ragsdale High School in Jamestown, NC, 1979; University of Florida, BS, marketing and business, 1983; Stetson University, DeLand, Fla.
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Anthropologists discover oldest wall art in collapsed cave in France

Los Angeles Times -
By Thomas H. Maugh II Anthropologists working in southern France have discovered what they believe to be the oldest known wall art in a rock shelter that collapsed 37000 years ago.

Does Global Work Mean Culture Clash?

Huffington Post (blog) -
Since the 1990s anthropologists have been writing about and investigating the modern notion of globalization as a world system and the movement of information, symbols, capital and commodities in global and transnational spaces.

Students place Indian cradleboard exhibit at anthropology museum

Enterprise-Record -
Hill was a local anthropologist. Most of the loaned cradleboards are local examples. Sandra Knight and the Mechoopda Tribe of Chico Rancheria have also shared one of their cradleboards and photographs of the fruits of their cradleboard-making ...

Moving Beyond a Biomedical View of Co-Sleeping

Huffington Post (blog) -
... Obama set off a firestorm of debate when he expressed his feelings that same-sex marriages do not weaken families and my fellow anthropologist Gia M. Hamilton recently blogged about being a single parent and her choice of "lifestyle design.

feminist anthropologist who pioneered studies on matriliny, kinship

The Hindu -
Scan through the acknowledgements and citations of any sociological or anthropological book on kinship or gender in India, from the 1960s till the present, and her name comes up with unfailing regularity.
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Old potatoes, scary statues and a rude jug: anthropological museum returns ...

Ely Standard -
All in all, it is a veritable smorgasbord of anthropological insight, each item more interesting than the last. From around the world and spanning two million years of history, the museum boasts around 1 million objects - only 1 per cent of which can ...

Forensic anthropology partnership established

UH System Current News -
The partnership provides forensic anthropology students with opportunities to learn in a field and laboratory environment at the Central Identification Lab, the most prestigious forensic anthropology lab in the nation. The lab's primary mission is to ...

Hunter-Gatherer Lifestyle May be Better for the Heart

Occupational Health and Safety -
Surprisingly, heart disease and stroke aren't necessarily inevitable with age,” said Michael Gurven, Ph.D., study author and anthropology professor and chairman of the University of California-Santa Barbara's Integrative Anthropological Sciences Unit.

What's the most misunderstood body part? Breasts

Globe and Mail -
To understand what modern life was doing to her breasts, Ms. Williams interviewed leading biologists, anthropologists and medical researchers to create a fascinating portrait of this highly fetishized, but little understood, body part.

'Bones' author and forensic anthropologist is this year's One Book choice

Evansville Courier & Press -
Reichs, born in Chicago in 1950, has a doctorate in physical anthropology and is one of some seven dozen forensic anthropologists certified by the American Board of Forensic Anthropology. The Chicago native divides her time between Charlotte, NC, ...

Lifestyle Design: Parenting while Single

Huffington Post -
Next Time: "The Power Rock Family- Super heroes in the Real World" Gia M. Hamilton is an applied anthropologist and native of New Orleans, Louisiana.

Peru Forced to Confront Deep Scars of Civil War

Pittsburgh Post Gazette -
"We are at this moment in a fight over what to remember and how to remember," said José Pablo Baraybar, executive director of the Peruvian Team for Forensic Anthropology, which has exhumed bodies from several mass graves from the war years.

Board of Overseers of the Penn Museum presented “Penn in Egypt: Then and Now”

PR Web (press release) -
Founded in 1887, the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology has become one of the largest archeological and anthropological collections in the United States, and has conducted more than 400 research expeditions around the ...
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Female genitalia carvings are Europe's oldest rock art

Fox News -
(Anthropologists still debate if the images are meant to be vulvas or something else.) Other European rock art sites have similar carvings, White said, though there are regional differences in how the symbols are drawn.

The ultimate freedom

Bangkok Post -
The anthropologist and political scientist draws extensively on works done by other scholars before him. But original and a source of the author's pride is his development of "friction of terrain" _ or the ruggedness of hill peoples' choice of ...

Progressive 'moral treatment' legacy lives on at Marion institute

Southwest Virginia Today -
An anthropologist who specializes in the study of traditional medical systems believes the vision and legacy of one progressive physician were so influential that more than 100 years later they are still carried forward at Southwestern Virginia Mental ...

Rosenberg elected president of American Association of Physical Anthropologists

University of Delaware -
2:43 pm, May 16, 2012--Karen Rosenberg, professor and chair of the University of Delaware's Department of Anthropology and a specialist in the evolution of birthing, has been elected president of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists ...

Exhumed remains 'not those of slain PM, ministers'

Antigua Observer -
During a two-week search that ended last Monday, a team of forensic anthropologists exhumed the remains from a section of the St George's Cemetery that was identified by witness testimony to be the most likely location of the bodies.

Anthropologist uncovers new process

The Daily News Journal -
Dr. Shannon Hodge, assistant professor of anthropology at MTSU, creates dental replicas to study rather than using the actual skeletal remains.
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