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History of physical anthropology: An encyclopedia (two volumes)
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 1998-07)
Edited by Frank Spencer. New York: Garland. 1997. 1,195 pp. ISBN 0-8153-0490-0. $175.00 (cloth).
History, marriage politics, and demographic events in the central Himalaya
(Cambridge University Press, 1995)
This chapter explores the micro-politics of marriage practices among a Tamang and Ghale population in north central Nepal. Based on ethnographic and survey research in Timling (Tipling), it establishes that marriage ...
Developmental, genetic, and environmental components of aerobic capacity at high altitude
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 1995-04)
The aerobic capacity of 268 subjects (158 males and 110 females) was evaluated in La Paz, Bolivia situated at 3,750 m. The sample included 1) 39 high altitude rural natives (all male); 2) 67 high altitude urban natives (32 ...
Developmental components of resting ventilation among high- and low-altitude Andean children and adults
(John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1999-07)
This paper evaluates the age-associated changes of resting ventilation of 115 high- and low-altitude Aymara subjects, of whom 61 were from the rural Aymara village of Ventilla situated at an average altitude of 4,200 m and ...
Family Transitions and the Practice of Brideservice in the Upper Ankhu Khola: A Tamang Case
(Center for nepal & Asian Studies, Tribhuvan University, 1996-07)
Seasonality, resource stress, and food sharing in so-called "egalitarian" foraging societies
(Elsevier, 1990-06)
Most discussions of food sharing among so-called "egalitarian" hunters and gatherers implicitly assume that, because all adult members of a group participate in the network of sharing, all must therefore be receiving ...
The Economics of Ritual at Late Old Babylonian Kish
(Brill Academic Publishers; by Koninklijke Brill nv, Leiden, The Netherlands ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1998-01)
A small archive of economic documents from the city of Kish in the late Old Babylonian period records amounts of money owed to the “supervisor of kezertu women” from the kezertu account. The employment of kezertu women in ...
Zuttiyeh face: A view from the east
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 1993-07)
We analyze the phylogenetic position of the frontofacial fragment from Zuttiyeh, Israel. This specimen is dated to the Middle Pleistocene (the latest estimate is between 250 and 350 kyr) and is associated with the ...
Ape, man, apeman: Changing views since 1600. Edited by Raymond Corbey and Bert Theunissen. Leiden: Department of Prehistory of Leiden University. 1995. 408 pp. ISBN 90-73368-05-7. npg (paper)
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 1996-12)
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