Helen Macbeth
Biographic Data
| ID | 89453 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Helen Macbeth |
| GIVEN NAMES | Helen |
| FAMILY NAME | Macbeth |
| SIGNATURE | MACBETH H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Oxford Brookes University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Liquid Bread
“This important volume sheds new light on the social, political, and economic role of beer in society.... Highly Recommended.”— Choice A Choice Outstanding Academic Book of The Year 2011 Winner of the 2011 Gourmand World Cookbook UK Award Beer is an ancient alcoholic drink which, although produced through a more complex process than wine, was developed by a wide range of cultures to become internationally popular. This book is the first multidisc…
A la Mémoire d'Igor de Garine
De Ricardo Avila C’est avec une profonde tristesse, que nous venons vous informer du décès, survenu ce 27 juin 2018, de notre cher ami et collègue, Igor de Garine. Igor était amplement reconnu dans le domaine de l’anthropologie de l’alimentation, où il a fait figure de pionnier à partir de sa publication : Les Habitudes dans la région alimentaire de Khombole, Sénégal (1960). Après une longue carrière professionnelle, Il est devenu chercheur éméri…
Food and Sustainability in the Twenty-First Century
Liquid Bread
Beer is an ancient alcoholic drink which, although produced through a more complex process than wine, was developed by a wide range of cultures to become internationally popular. This book is the first multidisciplinary, cross-cultural collection about beer. It explores the brewing processes used in antiquity and in traditional societies; the social and symbolic roles of beer-drinking; the beliefs and activities associated with it; the health-pro…
Consuming the Inedible
Human Population Dynamics
What is an Ethnic Group? A Biological Perspective
The first point to highlight is the risk that the words ‘ethnic group’ may have been used too simply to replace the word ‘race’, when concepts of race are considered to be both politically unacceptable and biologically inaccurate. It is not the objective of this paper to discuss political acceptability, but the same difficulties with the idea of discrete biological populations that invalidate traditional concepts of ‘race’ are central to the disc…
Seasonality of Marriages in Spanish and French Parishes in the Cerdanya Valley, Eastern Pyrenees
The Cerdanya valley in the eastern Pyrenees has a physical unity into which a political frontier has been imposed to divide it. The social and cultural repercussions of this Franco-Spanish border have created obstacles to marriage which are not due to topography. Choice of month of marriage is under cultural control and the study of seasonality in marriages recorded in the registers of all the Cerdan parishes on both sides of the border demonstra…
Health Outcomes
The costs of health care are much debated, but any study of these costs require measurement of what has been achieved by the health care. The results of health care have come to be known as 'health outcomes' and this book discusses the multiple angles involved in defining and measuring these outcomes. This book is deliberately cross-disciplinary, and looks at the topic thoroughly from the perspectives of different academic and practical angles.
Health Outcomes
Cerdanya
In this paper the records of 7844 marriages in the parishes of French and Spanish sectors of the Cerdanya Valley have been analysed. The Cerdanya is an eastern Pyrenean valley, today divided by the Franco-Spanish border, but once united within Catalonia. The results have been reported on the one hand on a small scale using local place names, and on the other hand on a wider scale across France and Spain, because interest lies both in the geograph…
Biology, boundaries and borders
Towards Justice and Peace is a splendid title for a symposium and book to honour Professor Sunderland. It is also a very difficult title for a biological anthropologist. I make the distinction from social anthropology with some apology. There are of course many subdisciplines and traditions within Anthropology and I most associate Professor Sunderland's support of my university and myself with our attempts to foster cross-disciplinary discussion,…
Boundaries and Borders
Nature/nurture
Dr Helen M Macbeth, a biological anthr-opologist, is a pr-incipal lecturer at Oxord Polytechnic, and Secretary of the Biosocial Society. 'But, out there, people do have a concept of a dichotomy called nature/nurture'. Therefore, the social anthropologist in the discussion argued, it was a valid theme for a first term course in Anthropology (Biological and Social), whereas the biological anthropologist had dismissed the topic as an out of date deb…
Geographical mobility and IQ components
In relation to two measures of the mobility involved in the migration histories of individuals now resident in the Otmoor villages of Oxfordshire, selectivity for components of the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale is clearly demonstrated. However, this selectivity is reconsidered in the light of other covariates of mobility, where these also relate to IQ, for example, some measures of temporal and socioeconomic variation. When correction is made…
Anthropometric variation between migrants and non-migrants
Anthropometric measurements on a non-migrant sample consisting of 174 males and 148 females aged 21 to 75 resident in the Orkney Islands are compared with measurements on 91 males and 96 females who migrated as adults to the Aberdeen area of Scotland. Covariance analysis, adjusting for age effects, reveals differences in a number of anthropometric variables, with migrants showing smaller dimensions in several cases. For most variables the differe…
Social Mobility and Psychometric Variation in a Group of Oxfordshire Villages
The patterns of male social mobility among the contemporary populations of Otmoor are described in terms of both intra- and inter-generational mobility. The social classes are differentiated by IQ and it is shown that sons' IQ is more highly correlated with their class, after their social mobility than before it. In 85 father-son pairs the number of steps sons moved in the social scale is positively related to the magnitude of the difference betw…
Psychometric, personality and anthropometric variation in a group of Oxfordshire villages
An account is given of a survey of psychometric, personality and anthropometric variation among adults resident in nine villages in the Otmoor region of Oxfordshire. Using the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, I.Q. variation was found between the sexes, social/occupational groups and the villages. Measures of extraversion and consistency obtained from the Eysenck Personality Inventory differentiated the social classes, and neuroticism the sexes.…
Psychometric, personality and anthropometric variation in a group of Oxfordshire villages
An account is given of a survey of psychometric, personality and anthropometric variation among adults resident in nine villages in the Otmoor region of Oxfordshire. Using the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, I.Q. variation was found between the sexes, social/occupational groups and the villages. Measures of extraversion and consistency obtained from the Eysenck Personality Inventory differentiated the social classes, and neuroticism the sexes.…
Social Mobility and Psychometric Variation in a Group of Oxfordshire Villages
The patterns of male social mobility among the contemporary populations of Otmoor are described in terms of both intra- and inter-generational mobility. The social classes are differentiated by IQ and it is shown that sons' IQ is more highly correlated with their class, after their social mobility than before it. In 85 father-son pairs the number of steps sons moved in the social scale is positively related to the magnitude of the difference betw…
Geographical mobility and IQ components
In relation to two measures of the mobility involved in the migration histories of individuals now resident in the Otmoor villages of Oxfordshire, selectivity for components of the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale is clearly demonstrated. However, this selectivity is reconsidered in the light of other covariates of mobility, where these also relate to IQ, for example, some measures of temporal and socioeconomic variation. When correction is made…
Anthropometric variation between migrants and non-migrants
Anthropometric measurements on a non-migrant sample consisting of 174 males and 148 females aged 21 to 75 resident in the Orkney Islands are compared with measurements on 91 males and 96 females who migrated as adults to the Aberdeen area of Scotland. Covariance analysis, adjusting for age effects, reveals differences in a number of anthropometric variables, with migrants showing smaller dimensions in several cases. For most variables the differe…
Nature/nurture
Dr Helen M Macbeth, a biological anthr-opologist, is a pr-incipal lecturer at Oxord Polytechnic, and Secretary of the Biosocial Society. 'But, out there, people do have a concept of a dichotomy called nature/nurture'. Therefore, the social anthropologist in the discussion argued, it was a valid theme for a first term course in Anthropology (Biological and Social), whereas the biological anthropologist had dismissed the topic as an out of date deb…
Boundaries and Borders
Biology, boundaries and borders
Towards Justice and Peace is a splendid title for a symposium and book to honour Professor Sunderland. It is also a very difficult title for a biological anthropologist. I make the distinction from social anthropology with some apology. There are of course many subdisciplines and traditions within Anthropology and I most associate Professor Sunderland's support of my university and myself with our attempts to foster cross-disciplinary discussion,…
Health Outcomes
The costs of health care are much debated, but any study of these costs require measurement of what has been achieved by the health care. The results of health care have come to be known as 'health outcomes' and this book discusses the multiple angles involved in defining and measuring these outcomes. This book is deliberately cross-disciplinary, and looks at the topic thoroughly from the perspectives of different academic and practical angles.
Health Outcomes
Cerdanya
In this paper the records of 7844 marriages in the parishes of French and Spanish sectors of the Cerdanya Valley have been analysed. The Cerdanya is an eastern Pyrenean valley, today divided by the Franco-Spanish border, but once united within Catalonia. The results have been reported on the one hand on a small scale using local place names, and on the other hand on a wider scale across France and Spain, because interest lies both in the geograph…
What is an Ethnic Group? A Biological Perspective
The first point to highlight is the risk that the words ‘ethnic group’ may have been used too simply to replace the word ‘race’, when concepts of race are considered to be both politically unacceptable and biologically inaccurate. It is not the objective of this paper to discuss political acceptability, but the same difficulties with the idea of discrete biological populations that invalidate traditional concepts of ‘race’ are central to the disc…
Seasonality of Marriages in Spanish and French Parishes in the Cerdanya Valley, Eastern Pyrenees
The Cerdanya valley in the eastern Pyrenees has a physical unity into which a political frontier has been imposed to divide it. The social and cultural repercussions of this Franco-Spanish border have created obstacles to marriage which are not due to topography. Choice of month of marriage is under cultural control and the study of seasonality in marriages recorded in the registers of all the Cerdan parishes on both sides of the border demonstra…
Human Population Dynamics
Consuming the Inedible
Liquid Bread
Beer is an ancient alcoholic drink which, although produced through a more complex process than wine, was developed by a wide range of cultures to become internationally popular. This book is the first multidisciplinary, cross-cultural collection about beer. It explores the brewing processes used in antiquity and in traditional societies; the social and symbolic roles of beer-drinking; the beliefs and activities associated with it; the health-pro…
Food and Sustainability in the Twenty-First Century
Liquid Bread
“This important volume sheds new light on the social, political, and economic role of beer in society.... Highly Recommended.”— Choice A Choice Outstanding Academic Book of The Year 2011 Winner of the 2011 Gourmand World Cookbook UK Award Beer is an ancient alcoholic drink which, although produced through a more complex process than wine, was developed by a wide range of cultures to become internationally popular. This book is the first multidisc…
A la Mémoire d'Igor de Garine
De Ricardo Avila C’est avec une profonde tristesse, que nous venons vous informer du décès, survenu ce 27 juin 2018, de notre cher ami et collègue, Igor de Garine. Igor était amplement reconnu dans le domaine de l’anthropologie de l’alimentation, où il a fait figure de pionnier à partir de sa publication : Les Habitudes dans la région alimentaire de Khombole, Sénégal (1960). Après une longue carrière professionnelle, Il est devenu chercheur éméri…
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