Knowledge from the Margins
W. Montague Cobb's Pioneering Research in Biocultural Anthropology
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2464337 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rachel J Watkins, R Watkins (0000-0001-5396-5779, American University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 109 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 186-196 |
| Publication date | 2007-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Anthropologist (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7294 • E-ISSN: 1548-1433 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1525/aa.2007.109.1.186 |
| OpenAlex | W2004862026 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 16 |
| References cited | 32 |
W. Montague Cobb became the first African American to receive a doctorate in physical anthropology in the United States (1932). He was also among the first U.S. physical anthropologists to demonstrate a commitment to biocultural integration and racial equality in his research. Nonetheless, very few European American physical anthropologists responded to or utilized Cobb's work. This continued after bioanthropology took on a more biocultural focus in the 1980s, some 50 years after Cobb's first studies of this kind. In this essay, I highlight Cobb's research and writing from the first decades of his career to illustrate his contribution to developing biocultural perspectives in physical anthropology. As a result, I hope to move Cobb from the margins to the center of discussions about methodological and theoretical developments in bioanthropology over the past 30 years
Biological anthropology · CobB · Sociology · Anthropology · Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies · Gender Studies
Derechos bioculturales
Bodies and persons
A critical biocultural approach to early growth in the United States
Doing biocultural anthropology
Health among sexual and gender minority people affected by armed conflict and forced displacement
Women gatherers of nalca (Gunnera tinctoria) as guardians of socioecosystems
The politics of the medieval preracial” i
An Evaluation of Ancestral Diversity in 19th-Century South Shields
Race and diversity in U.S. Biological Anthropology
Race and the Struggle for a Cosmopolitan Archaeology
Anthropological perspectives on genomic data, genetic ancestry, and race
This] system was not made for [you]
Uncloaking a Lost Cause
Knowledge from the Margins
Weathering Anti-Blackness
Biohistorical Narratives of Racial Difference in the American Negro
The retreat of scientific racism
Integrating archaeological demography
Building a New Biocultural Synthesis
The ethnographer's magic and other essays in the history of anthropology
Critical Race Theory
Section of Anthropology
Race and Runners
W. Montague Cobb (1904–1990)
Man's Most Dangerous Myth
Man’S Most Dangerous Myth
From Savage to Negro
Commentary
Critical Race Theory and the Archaeology of the African Diaspora
Cranial capacity and linear dimensions, in White and Negro
Physical anthropology of the American Negro
Mapping the Margins
The Osteological Paradox
The Rebirth of Anthropological Theory
Biocultural perspectives on stress in prehistoric, historical, and contemporary population research
The Physical Constitution of the American Negro
The Negro as a Biological Element in the American Population
An Anthropologist's Study of Negro Life
Education in Human Biology
Why are there so few black American archaeologists
Anthropology and the Black Experience
The Erasure of Women's Writing in Sociocultural Anthropology
Knowledge from the Margins
The Osteological Paradox Reconsidered
On Stress and Stature in the 'Osteological Paradox
On the Non-Existence of Human Races
| Unique citing works | 16 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,84 |
| Citation span | 2007 - 2026 (20) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 15 |