The Biological Anthropology of Living Human Populations: World Histories, National Styles, and International Networks
2012; University of Chicago Press; Volume: 53; Issue: S5 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1086/663328
ISSN1537-5382
Autores Tópico(s)Zoonotic diseases and public health
ResumoPrevious articleNext article FreeThe Biological Anthropology of Living Human Populations: World Histories, National Styles, and International Networks Wenner-Gren Symposium Supplement 5Leslie C. AielloLeslie C. Aiello Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreThe Biological Anthropology of Living Human Populations: World Histories, National Styles, and International Networks is the fifth Wenner-Gren Symposium to be published as an open-access supplement of Current Anthropology. The symposium was organized by M. Susan Lindee (University of Pennsylvania, U.S.A.) and Ricardo Ventura Santos (Museu Nacional & Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Brazil) and was held March 5–12, 2010, at the Hotel Rosa dos Ventos, Teresópolis, Brazil (fig. 1).Figure 1. Participants in the symposium “The Biological Anthropology of Living Human Populations: World Histories, National Styles, and International Networks.” Seated, from left: Joanna Radin, Mike Little, Rachel Watkins, Ricardo Ventura Santos, Susan Lindee, Leslie Aiello, Laurie Obbink (Wenner-Gren staff). Standing, from left: Morris Low, Clark Larsen, Gonçalo Santos, Vassiliki Betty Smocovitis, Ann Kakaliouras, Warwick Anderson, Jenny Reardon, Gísli Pálsson, Jon Kyllingstad, Trudy Turner, Perrin Selcer, Jonathan Marks, Alan Morris, Jean-François Véran, Noel Cameron. Not pictured: Veronika Lipphardt.View Large ImageDownload PowerPointThere are interrelated and compelling reasons for Wenner-Gren interest in this symposium. As Lindee and Santos emphasize in their introduction (Lindee and Santos 2012), modern biological anthropologists, and particularly human biologists, are generally embarrassed by the history of their discipline and rarely have an interest in delving into it. Rather, most see themselves as the scientific wing of anthropology, with little to learn from the past or from research less than a decade or so old, leaving the history to historians of science. Accompanying this lack of interest is an apparent absence of appreciation for the rich diversity in international biological anthropology and the development of these varied orientations and approaches.The Biological Anthropology of Living Human Populations is intended to provide an easily accessible resource to help remedy this situation. It builds on the prior success of World Anthropologies: Disciplinary Transformations within Systems of Power (Ribeiro and Escobar 2006), which grew out of a 2003 Wenner-Gren Symposium of the same name, looking at the interconnected global historical trajectories in aspects of social anthropology. Papers in the current supplementary issue are written by anthropologists, historians of science, and scholars of science studies and address the international development of the discipline as well as its contemporary condition and potential future development.Papers included in this collection cover the development of the field in its “core” areas of France, Germany, and the United States, where it first appeared in the nineteenth century. There are also case studies in areas to which it subsequently spread: Brazil, Portugal, Norway, Japan, Iceland, and South Africa. Crosscutting topics include racism and the changing concept of race, the relationship between colonialism, imperialism, and physical anthropology, and the tension between biological and social adaptation as applied to humans. A major theme is the collection of human biological materials and the changing and evolving quandaries surrounding these collections and their repatriation over time, an issue that has been exacerbated by the “molecularization” of biological anthropology. Lindee and Santos (2012) describe biological anthropological collections as flash points for understanding the discipline, arguing that they play a pivotal role in the construction of modern ethnic, national, and global identities and at the same time are shaping what it means to be a biological anthropologist today.Past Wenner-Gren symoposia have addressed human biology (e.g., Baker and Weiner 1966), and particularly the interrelationships between biological and cultural adaptation (e.g., Goodman and Leatherman 1998; Harrison and Boyce 1972; Swedlund and Armelagos 1990), and the rise of genetic approaches to the discipline (e.g., Goodman, Heath, and Lindee 2003; Spuhler 1967). However, the current collection is a unique initiative in addressing both the past and the present of international biological anthropology. The strong message emerging from these papers is that biological anthropology has been entwined with politics throughout its history but has evolved in profound ways over the past century and continues to do so. A clear knowledge of its varied international histories is essential to understanding the dilemmas confronting the modern field and its potential future trajectories.The Wenner-Gren Foundation is always looking for innovative new directions for future Foundation-sponsored and -organized symposium meetings and eventual CA publication. We encourage anthropologists to contact us with their ideas for future meetings. Information about the Wenner-Gren Foundation and the Symposium program can be found on the Foundation’s Web site (http://wennergren.org/programs/international-symposia).References CitedBaker, Paul T., and Joseph S. 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