Robert A Myers
Biographic Data
| ID | 92659 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert A Myers |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert A |
| FAMILY NAME | Myers |
| SIGNATURE | MYERS R A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Davidson College |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5533-1198 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Film and Video
Film reviewed in this issue.Gringo Trails
The Cherokee Nation
The Cherokee Nation is one of the largest and most important of all the American Indian tribes. The first history of the Cherokees to appear in over four decades, this is also the first to be endorsed by the tribe and the first to be written by a Cherokee. Robert Conley begins his survey with Cherokee origin myths and legends. He then explores their relations with neighboring Indian groups and European missionaries and settlers. He traces their f…
Cherokee Pioneers in Arkansas
Curing Their Ills
The Caribbean Slave
Traditional Medicine
Circumcision
Perspectives on Postdoctoral Public Health Training for Medical Anthropologists
Island Carib cannibalism
In The Man-Eating Myth , William Arens questions the existence of customary 4 'as an accepted practice for any time or place (1979: 9). He finds no satisfactory documentation or sustained ethnography of and cannot isolate a single reliable complete first-hand account by an anthropologist of cannibalism (1979: 181). Institutional is a myth, he concludes; one which anthropologists, missionaries, explorers, and travellers alike have perpetuated. His…
Hypertension and Culture Change
General and Theoretical
Circumcision
Curing Their Ills
Island Carib cannibalism
In The Man-Eating Myth , William Arens questions the existence of customary 4 'as an accepted practice for any time or place (1979: 9). He finds no satisfactory documentation or sustained ethnography of and cannot isolate a single reliable complete first-hand account by an anthropologist of cannibalism (1979: 181). Institutional is a myth, he concludes; one which anthropologists, missionaries, explorers, and travellers alike have perpetuated. His…
Cherokee Pioneers in Arkansas
General and Theoretical
Hypertension and Culture Change
Perspectives on Postdoctoral Public Health Training for Medical Anthropologists
Island Carib cannibalism
In The Man-Eating Myth , William Arens questions the existence of customary 4 'as an accepted practice for any time or place (1979: 9). He finds no satisfactory documentation or sustained ethnography of and cannot isolate a single reliable complete first-hand account by an anthropologist of cannibalism (1979: 181). Institutional is a myth, he concludes; one which anthropologists, missionaries, explorers, and travellers alike have perpetuated. His…
Traditional Medicine
Circumcision
The Caribbean Slave
Curing Their Ills
Cherokee Pioneers in Arkansas
The Cherokee Nation
The Cherokee Nation is one of the largest and most important of all the American Indian tribes. The first history of the Cherokees to appear in over four decades, this is also the first to be endorsed by the tribe and the first to be written by a Cherokee. Robert Conley begins his survey with Cherokee origin myths and legends. He then explores their relations with neighboring Indian groups and European missionaries and settlers. He traces their f…
Film and Video
Film reviewed in this issue.Gringo Trails
Sociology (7 works) · History (4 works) · Library science (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Citation (3 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Cherokee (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Ethnology (2 works)