Alan H Goodman
Biographic Data
| ID | 74879 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alan H Goodman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alan H |
| FAMILY NAME | Goodman |
| SIGNATURE | GOODMAN A H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hampshire College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2868-1587 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 67 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1085 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 66 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1963 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 13 |
Building on the biocultural syntheses
Building a New Biocultural Synthesis: Political Economic Perspectives in Human Biology called for an integration of political economy with ecological and adaptability perspectives in biocultural anthropology. A major goal of this volume was to explore the utility of including political‐economic and sociocultural processes in analyses of human biological variation, nutrition, and health. A second goal was to enhance collaboration among subfields a…
Comments on How Academic Diversity Is Transforming Scientific Knowledge in Biological Anthropology
Skin Color
When a large group of students lines up from lightest to darkest skin color, there are no clear breaks from darker to lighter skin colors. Additionally, those with the darkest skin are just as likely to come from southern India and Southeast Asia as anywhere else. This exercise highlights two basic facts about human skin color variation: skin color is a poor predictor of race or the continent from which one comes, and skin color is continuous. Ev…
George John Armelagos (1936-2014)
Toward Deeper Biocultural Integration
Bioarcheology has a “health” problem
This article provides a critical historical overview of the stress concept in bioarcheological research and critically evaluates the term “health” in reference to skeletal samples. Stress has a considerable history in 20th century physiological research, and the term has reached a critical capacity of meaning. Stress was operationalized around a series of generalized physiological responses that were associated with a deviation from homeostasis. …
George Armelagos, 1936-2014
Bringing Culture into Human Biology and Biology Back into Anthropology
In the recent past, human biology in anthropology was typically theorized as separate from-even in tension with-culture. In contrast, by further theorizing the social, political, and ecological processes through which what I call "cultural-biologicals" dialectically come into being, I foreground the restlessness and site specificity of human biology. In this article, I highlight research of three junior colleagues to propose two general processes…
Race
Featuring essays by noted anthropologists and photos from the American Anthropological Association's "RACE: Are We So Different?" project, this book explores how the notion of race has changed throughout history, as well as contemporary experiences of race and racism in the United States; how race and racism have influenced laws, customs, and social institutions; and how current scientific understanding is often inconsistent with popular beliefs …
Race and Education
This chapter contains sections titled: Closing the “Achievement Gap” Affirmative Action: Undoing Inequality References Michael Omi, Asian Americans: The Unbearable Whiteness of Being? Mica Pollock, Some Myths about Race that Every Educator Needs to Unlearn Mica Pollock, Some Myths about Race; Further Reading Further Reading
Race and Health Disparities
This chapter contains sections titled: Race, Discrimination, and Stress Race and Hypertension: The Cultural Meaning of Skin Color Environmental Racism BiDil and Race in Medicine References Susan Reverby, Concepts of Race, Practices of Racism Further Reading
What Is Science in Anthropology
Changes in stature, weight, and nutritional status with tourism-based economic development in the Yucatan
Beyond the Tangible
Enamel hypoplasia and early mortality
The Barker hypothesis asserts that stressful events early in the life history of an individual have negative health consequences later in adulthood. The hypothesis initially focused on prenatal stressors as indicated by birth weight and related outcomes. This initial concern with the fetal phase of development led to its description as the “fetal programming” or “fetal origins” hypothesis. The realization that stressors in the postnatal phase had…
Maternal diets, nutritional status, and zinc in contemporary Mexican infants' teeth
Despite attempts to use zinc (Zn) concentrations in hard tissues to comment upon the degree of carnivory in past populations, zinc has yielded inconsistent trophic level effects. The question of what, if anything, zinc in human enamel reveals regarding past diets is the focus of this research. We test whether the zinc content of deciduous tooth enamel from contemporary Mexican infants varies by maternal dietary variables such as zinc intake, prop…
Next Steps for a Public Anthropology of Race
Joseph Jones is contributing editor for the AAA's RACE Project column in Anthropology News
Minorities in Anthropology
Expanding and Engaging Anthropologies
Race
101 9 Sickle Cell Disease: Not for Blacks Only 111 10 The Apportionment of Variation, or Why We Are All Africans Under the Skin 123 11 The Evolution of Variation 133 Part 3 Living with Race and Racism 145 12 Introduction: Living with Race and Racism 147 13 Race and the Census 154 14 Race and Education 174 15 Linking Race and Wealth: An American Dilemma 195 16 Race and Health Disparities 214 17 Conclusion 231 Glossary 246 Index 253
The Critical Intersection of Human Biology and Anthropology
Toward genetics in an era of anthropology
Genetic Nature/Culture
AnthroSource for All (And All for AnthroSource)
AAA's New Income-Based Dues Structure
Assessment of systemic physiological perturbations from dental enamel hypoplasias and associated histological structures
Dental enamel hypoplasias are deficiencies in enamel thickness resulting from physiological perturbations (stress) during the secretory phase of amelogenesis. The results of a wide variety of experimental, clinical, and epidemiological studies strongly suggest that these defects and their associated histological abnormalities (such as accentuated stria of Retzius and Wilson bands) are relatively sensitive and nonspecific indicators of stress. Bec…
Biocultural perspectives on stress in prehistoric, historical, and contemporary population research
Stress, a concept addressing the consequences of disruptive events on individuals and populations, can be a useful integrative idea. The stress process has much in common with its sister concept of adaptation. However, where adaptation focuses on "adaptive" or positive consequences, stress redresses an imbalance by focusing on the costs and limits of adaptation. In this paper we first review the interdisciplinary roots of the stress concept. Whil…
Factors affecting the distribution of enamel hypoplasias within the human permanent dentition
Frequencies and morphological and chronological distributions of enamel hypoplasias are presented by tooth type (permanent I1 to M2s), based on a sample of 30 prehistoric Amerindians with complete and unworn dentitions. There is nearly a tenfold variation in frequency of defects by tooth, ranging from 0.13 per mandibular second molar to 1.27 per maxillary central incisor. The six anterior teeth average between 0.70 and 1.27 defects/tooth, whereas…
Infant and childhood morbidity and mortality risks in archaeological populations
Infants and children are nearly universally found to be among the most vulnerable subgroups of a population. Their health can be a sensitive indicator of the health of the population as a whole. Furthermore, repeated bouts of illness during infancy and childhood, periods of rapid development, can have lasting functional effects on the individual and the group. In this paper we provide a framework for studying infant and childhood health in archae…
On the Interpretation of Health From Skeletal Remains
Childhood Stress and Decreased Longevity in a Prehistoric Population
The chronological distribution of enamel hypoplasias from prehistoric dickson mounds populations
The chronological distributions of enamel hypoplasias (indicators of nonspecific stress) are assessed for 111 individuals from two prehistoric populations from Dickson Mounds, Lewiston, Illinois. The earlier population (circa A.D. 950–1150) involves a transition from an indigenous gathering‐hunting tradition to increasing adoption of Mississippian lifeways. The later population (circa A.D. 1150–1300) is fully Mississippian (MM). Based on the occu…
Prevalence and age at development of enamel hypoplasias in Mexican children
Enamel hypoplasias, deficiencies in enamel thickness resulting from disturbances during the secretory phase of enamel development, are generally believed to result from nonspecific metabolic and nutritional disruptions. However, data are scarce on the prevalence and chronological distribution of hypoplasias in populations experiencing mild to moderate malnutrition. The purpose of this article is to present baseline data on the prevalences and chr…
Coca-colonization of diets in the Yucatan
Bringing Culture into Human Biology and Biology Back into Anthropology
In the recent past, human biology in anthropology was typically theorized as separate from-even in tension with-culture. In contrast, by further theorizing the social, political, and ecological processes through which what I call "cultural-biologicals" dialectically come into being, I foreground the restlessness and site specificity of human biology. In this article, I highlight research of three junior colleagues to propose two general processes…
Bioarcheology has a “health” problem
This article provides a critical historical overview of the stress concept in bioarcheological research and critically evaluates the term “health” in reference to skeletal samples. Stress has a considerable history in 20th century physiological research, and the term has reached a critical capacity of meaning. Stress was operationalized around a series of generalized physiological responses that were associated with a deviation from homeostasis. …
Response of bone and enamel formation to nutritional supplementation and morbidity among malnourished Guatemalan children
The effects of changes in nutritional and health status upon bone and enamel development are examined in a sample of 63 rural Guatemalan children (24 females, 39 males). The number of ossified hand‐wrist centers at 3 years and the number of linear enamel hypoplasias (LEH) in ∼0–3 year zones of developing teeth were used to monitor the response of bone mineralization and enamel matrix formation to illness and nutritional supplementation. Numbers o…
The origins of agriculture
On Seeking Common Ground between Medical Ecology and Critical Medical Anthropology
Racializing Kennewick Man
Genetic Nature/Culture
Post-Pleistocene facial reduction, biomechanics and selection against morphologically complex teeth
Race
101 9 Sickle Cell Disease: Not for Blacks Only 111 10 The Apportionment of Variation, or Why We Are All Africans Under the Skin 123 11 The Evolution of Variation 133 Part 3 Living with Race and Racism 145 12 Introduction: Living with Race and Racism 147 13 Race and the Census 154 14 Race and Education 174 15 Linking Race and Wealth: An American Dilemma 195 16 Race and Health Disparities 214 17 Conclusion 231 Glossary 246 Index 253
Variation in elemental intensities among teeth and between pre‐ and postnatal regions of enamel
Microspatial analyses of the trace element composition of dental enamel are made possible using laser ablation‐inductively coupled plasma‐mass spectrometry (LA‐ICP‐MS). Fine spatial resolution, multielement capabilities, and minimal sample destruction make this technique particularly well‐suited for documenting the distribution of elements in sequentially calcifying layers of enamel. Because deciduous enamel forms from week 13 in utero up to 9 mo…
Maternal diets, nutritional status, and zinc in contemporary Mexican infants' teeth
Despite attempts to use zinc (Zn) concentrations in hard tissues to comment upon the degree of carnivory in past populations, zinc has yielded inconsistent trophic level effects. The question of what, if anything, zinc in human enamel reveals regarding past diets is the focus of this research. We test whether the zinc content of deciduous tooth enamel from contemporary Mexican infants varies by maternal dietary variables such as zinc intake, prop…
Toward genetics in an era of anthropology
Toward Deeper Biocultural Integration
What Is Science in Anthropology
Beyond the Tangible
George John Armelagos (1936-2014)
Differentiation in alcoholic women1
On the Use of Microstructural Bone for Age Determination
Nutritional Inference from Paleopathology
The Influence of Individual Differences in Health and Illness . Linas A. Bieliauskas
The chronological distribution of enamel hypoplasias from prehistoric dickson mounds populations
The chronological distributions of enamel hypoplasias (indicators of nonspecific stress) are assessed for 111 individuals from two prehistoric populations from Dickson Mounds, Lewiston, Illinois. The earlier population (circa A.D. 950–1150) involves a transition from an indigenous gathering‐hunting tradition to increasing adoption of Mississippian lifeways. The later population (circa A.D. 1150–1300) is fully Mississippian (MM). Based on the occu…
Physical
Handbook of Health, Health Care, and the Health Professions . David Mechanic
Factors affecting the distribution of enamel hypoplasias within the human permanent dentition
Frequencies and morphological and chronological distributions of enamel hypoplasias are presented by tooth type (permanent I1 to M2s), based on a sample of 30 prehistoric Amerindians with complete and unworn dentitions. There is nearly a tenfold variation in frequency of defects by tooth, ranging from 0.13 per mandibular second molar to 1.27 per maxillary central incisor. The six anterior teeth average between 0.70 and 1.27 defects/tooth, whereas…
Prevalence and age at development of enamel hypoplasias in Mexican children
Enamel hypoplasias, deficiencies in enamel thickness resulting from disturbances during the secretory phase of enamel development, are generally believed to result from nonspecific metabolic and nutritional disruptions. However, data are scarce on the prevalence and chronological distribution of hypoplasias in populations experiencing mild to moderate malnutrition. The purpose of this article is to present baseline data on the prevalences and chr…
Biocultural perspectives on stress in prehistoric, historical, and contemporary population research
Stress, a concept addressing the consequences of disruptive events on individuals and populations, can be a useful integrative idea. The stress process has much in common with its sister concept of adaptation. However, where adaptation focuses on "adaptive" or positive consequences, stress redresses an imbalance by focusing on the costs and limits of adaptation. In this paper we first review the interdisciplinary roots of the stress concept. Whil…
Childhood Stress and Decreased Longevity in a Prehistoric Population
Post-Pleistocene facial reduction, biomechanics and selection against morphologically complex teeth
A Critical Theory Analysis of Nuclear Power
Candidates for Vice-President-elect
Infant and childhood morbidity and mortality risks in archaeological populations
Infants and children are nearly universally found to be among the most vulnerable subgroups of a population. Their health can be a sensitive indicator of the health of the population as a whole. Furthermore, repeated bouts of illness during infancy and childhood, periods of rapid development, can have lasting functional effects on the individual and the group. In this paper we provide a framework for studying infant and childhood health in archae…
Assessment of systemic physiological perturbations from dental enamel hypoplasias and associated histological structures
Dental enamel hypoplasias are deficiencies in enamel thickness resulting from physiological perturbations (stress) during the secretory phase of amelogenesis. The results of a wide variety of experimental, clinical, and epidemiological studies strongly suggest that these defects and their associated histological abnormalities (such as accentuated stria of Retzius and Wilson bands) are relatively sensitive and nonspecific indicators of stress. Bec…
Biosocial Aspects of Social Class . C. G. Nicholas Mascie‐Taylor
Paleoepidemiological inference and neanderthal dental enamel hypoplasias
The origins of agriculture
Response of bone and enamel formation to nutritional supplementation and morbidity among malnourished Guatemalan children
The effects of changes in nutritional and health status upon bone and enamel development are examined in a sample of 63 rural Guatemalan children (24 females, 39 males). The number of ossified hand‐wrist centers at 3 years and the number of linear enamel hypoplasias (LEH) in ∼0–3 year zones of developing teeth were used to monitor the response of bone mineralization and enamel matrix formation to illness and nutritional supplementation. Numbers o…
On Seeking Common Ground between Medical Ecology and Critical Medical Anthropology
Biological Anthropology
On the Interpretation of Health From Skeletal Remains
Diabetes as a Disease of Civilization
The Eternal Triangle
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