School of Anthropology & Museum Ethnography: Latest Publications

Latest Publications

This page provides an up to date listing of all recent publications sorted by Books, Edited Volumes and Journal Articles.

Articles:
2012
Elisabeth Hsu ‘'Feeling Lighter': Why the patient's treatment evaluation matters to the health scientist’, Integrative Medicine Research 1 (1), 2012, pp. 5-12.
Peter Turchin, Harvey Whitehouse, Pieter Francois, Edward Slingerland and Mark Collard ‘A Historical Database of Sociocultural Evolution’, Cliodynamics 3 (2), 2012, pp. 271 - 293.
M Donohue, T Denham and Stephen Oppenheimer ‘A lexical-based methodology detects diffusion rather than prior subgrouping’, Diachronica 29 (4), 2012, pp. 505-522.
Stephen Oppenheimer ‘A single southern exit of modern humans from Africa: before or after Toba?’, Quaternary International 258 , 2012, pp. 88-99.
David Zeitlyn ‘Anthropology in and of the Archives: Possible Futures and Contingent Pasts. Archives as Anthropological Surrogates’, Annual Review of Anthropology 41 , 2012, pp. 461-80.
M Donohue, T Denham and Stephen Oppenheimer ‘Consensus and the lexicon in historical Linguistics: Rejoinder to “Basic vocabulary and Bayesian phylolinguistics”’, Diachronica 29 (4), 2012, pp. 538-546.
David Zeitlyn ‘Divinatory logics: diagnoses and predictions mediating outcomes’, Current Anthropology 53 (5), 2012, pp. 525-546.
R Mace and Alexandra Alvergne ‘Female reproductive competition within families in rural Gambia’, Proceedings of the Royal Academy of London B 279 , 2012, pp. 2210-2227.
Stephen Oppenheimer ‘Iron and Infection: Review on an iron supplementation study in New Guinea mounted from the Department of Tropical Paediatrics LSTM 1979-1983, its aftermath and the continuing relevance of its results’, Annals of Tropical Paediatrics 32 (2), 2012, pp. 63-71.
Iain Walker ‘Is social capital fungible? The rise and fall of the Sanduk microcredit project in Ngazidja’, Journal of Eastern African Studies 6 (4), 2012.
Elizabeth Ewart ‘Making and Unmaking Panará Beadwork—Or, How to Overcome the Fixity of Material Things’, Anthropology and Humanism 37 (2), 2012, pp. 177-190.
Elisabeth Hsu and Caroline Potter ‘Medical anthropology in Europe: shaping the field. Special Issue’, Anthropology and Medicine 19 (1), 2012, pp. 1-128.
Iain Walker ‘Ntsambu: the foul smell of home: Food, commensality and identity in the Comoros and in the diaspora’, Food and Foodways 20 (3-4), 2012, pp. 187-210.
Jonathan Lanman ‘On the non-evolution of atheism and the importance of definitions and data’, Religion, Brain, and Behavior 2 , 2012, pp. 76-78.
Stephen Oppenheimer ‘Out-of-Africa, the peopling of continents and islands: tracing uniparental gene trees across the map’, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences , 2012.
Stanley Ulijaszek ‘Socio-economic status, forms of capital and obesity’, Journal of Gastrointestinal Cancer 43 , 2012, pp. 3-7.
Jonathan Lanman ‘The Importance of Religious Displays for Belief Acquisition and Secularization’, Journal of Contemporary Religion 27 , 2012, pp. 49-65.
Morgan Clarke ‘The judge as tragic hero: judicial ethics in Lebanon’s shari‘a courts’, American Ethnologist 39 (1), 2012, pp. 106-121.
Harvey Whitehouse, K Kahn, M E Hochberg and J J Bryson ‘The role for simulations in theory construction for the social sciences: Case studies concerning Divergent Modes of Religiosity’, Religion, Brain and Behavior 2 (3), 2012, pp. 182-201.
David N. Gellner ‘Uncomfortable Antinomies: Going Beyond Methodological Nationalism in Social and Cultural Anthropology’, AAS Working Papers in Social Anthropology 24 , 2012, pp. 1-16.
William B. Swann, Jolanda Jensen, Ángel Gómez, Harvey Whitehouse and Brock Bastian ‘When Group Membership Gets Personal: A theory of identity fusion’, Psychological Review 119 (3), 2012, pp. 441-456.
Harvey Whitehouse and Emma Cohen ‘Seeking a Rapprochement between Anthropology and the Cognitive Sciences: A problem-driven approach’, Topics in Cognitive Science 4 (3), 2012, pp. 404-4012.
Emma Cohen ‘The evolution of tag-based cooperation in humans: the case for accent’, Current Anthropology , 2012, In Press.
Books:
Mike Morris Concise Dictionary of Social and Cultural Anthropology, 2012, Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.
Stanley Ulijaszek, N. Mann and S. Elton Evolving Human Nutrition. Implications for Public Health, 2012, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Katherine Swancutt Fortune and the Cursed: The Sliding Scale of Time in Mongolian Divination, 2012, Oxford: Berghahn.
Caroline Potter Bodies in Flux: Becoming a professional dancer (Forthcoming), 2012.
Contributions to books:
David N. Gellner and K. Adhikari ‘Conclusions: Pathways to Integration’, In K. Adhikari (ed.) Nepalis in the United Kingdom: An Overview, Reading: CNSUK, 2012, pp. 151-169.
David N. Gellner ‘Fluidity, Hybridity, Performativity: How Relevant are Social Scientific Buzzwords for Nepal’s Constitution Building?’, In C. Mishra and O. Gurung (eds) Ethnicity and Federalization in Nepal, Kathmandu: Central Dept of Sociology/Anthropology, Tribhuvan University, 2012, pp. 91-102.
Emma Cohen and Justin Barrett ‘In search of self: Interdisciplinary perspectives on personhood’, In J. Wentzel van Huysteen and Erik Wiebe , Eerdmans Publishing: Grand Rapids, MA, 2012, pp. 104-122.
Iain Walker ‘Marrying at Home, Marrying Away: Customary Marriages and Legal Marriages in Ngazidja and in the Diaspora’, In K. Charsley (ed.) Transnational Marriage: new perspective from Europe and beyond, London: Routledge, 2012.
Elisabeth Hsu ‘Mobility and connectedness: Chinese medical doctors in Kenya’, In H. Dilger, A. Kane and S. A. Langwick (eds) Medicine, mobility and power in global Africa, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2012, pp. 295-315.
Iain Morley ‘Music, Language and Human Evolution’, In N. Bannan , Oxford Univeristy Press: Oxford, 2012.
A. Pechy, R. Pechey and Stanley Ulijaszek ‘Obesity under affluence varies by welfare regimes’, In A. Offer, R. Pechey and S.J. Ulijaszek (eds) Insecurity, inequality and obesity, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012, pp. 199-224.
David N. Gellner and S. Hausner ‘Religion’, In K. Adhikari (ed.) Nepalis in the United Kingdom: An Overview, Reading: CNSUK, 2012, pp. 54-68.
Harvey Whitehouse ‘Religion, cohesion, and hostility’, In S. Clarke, R. Powell and J. Savulescu Religion, Intolerance and Conflict: A Scientific and Conceptual Investigation, Oxford Univeristy Press: Oxford, 2012.
Harvey Whitehouse ‘Religious Universals and Religious Variation’, In T. Biro and I. Czachesz Changing Minds: Religion and cognition through the ages, Peeters Publishers: Leuven, 2012.
Harvey Whitehouse ‘Ritual, Cognition, and Evolution’, In R Sun Grounding the Social Sciences in the Cognitive Sciences, MIT Press: Cambridge, MA, 2012, pp. 265 - 284.
Stephen Oppenheimer ‘The post-glacial peopling of the British Isles: can Celtic and Anglo-Saxon physical intrusions be defined and measured?’, In Daniel Le Bris, Marcel Otte and Francesco Benozzo Aires Linguistiques Aires Culturelles Etudes de concordances en Europe occidentale: zones Manche et Atlantique, Centre de Recherche Bretonne et Celtique: Brest, 2012.
Elisabeth Hsu ‘Treatment Evaluation: An Anthropologist’s Approach’, In S. Scheid and H. MacPherson (eds) Integrating East Asian Medicine into Contemporary Healthcare, London: Churchill Livingstone, 2012, pp. 157-172.
David N. Gellner ‘Uncomfortable Antinomies: Going Beyond Methodological Nationalism in Social and Cultural Anthropology’, In A. Ammelina, D.D. Nergiz, T. Faist, and N. Glick Schiller (eds) Beyond Methodological Nationalism: Research Methodologies for Cross-Border Studies (Routledge Research in Transnationalism Series), New York: Routledge, 2012, pp. 111-28.
Harvey Whitehouse ‘Whence and Whither Sociocultural Anthropology’, In Edward Slingerland and Mark Collard Consilience: Integrating the sciences and humanities, Oxford University Press: Oxford, 2012, pp. 130 - 139.
Paul Dresch ‘Aspects of Non-State Law: Early Yemen and "Perpetual Peace"’, In Paul Dresch and Hannah Skoda (eds) Legalism: Anthropology and History, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012, Forthcoming.
Morgan Clarke ‘Islamic bioethics and religious politics in Lebanon’, In M. Inhorn and S. Tremayne (eds) slam and assisted reproductive technologies, New York: Berghahn Books, 2012, Forthcoming.
Morgan Clarke ‘Science and social change’, In A. Sajoo (ed.) A Companion to Muslim Cultures (Muslim Heritage series), London: I.B. Tauris, 2012, Forthcoming.
Edited Books:
Avner Offer, Rachel Pechey and Stanley Ulijaszek Insecurity, inequality and obesity, 2012, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Paul Dresch and Hannah Skoda (eds) Legalism: Anthropology and History, 2012, Forthcoming, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Laura Rival and Roldan Muradian (eds) Governing the provision of Ecosystem Services, 2012, In Press, Dordrecht: Springer.
2011
Articles:
P. Soares, T. Trejaut, J. Mormina, Stephen Oppenheimer and S. Richards et al ‘Ancient Voyaging and Polynesian Origins’, The American Journal of Human Genetics 88 (2), 2011, pp. 1-9.
Emma Cohen ‘Broadening the critical perspective on supernatural punishment theories’, Religion, Brain & Behavior 1 (1), 2011, pp. 70-72.
David N. Gellner ‘Comment on 'Identity' by Lauren Leve’, Cultural Anthropology 52 (4), 2011, pp. 526-527.
David N. Gellner ‘Comment on 'The Liberal Treatment of Difference: An Untimely Meditation on Culture by Nigel Rapport’, Cultural Anthropology 52 (5), 2011, pp. 701-702.
Stefano Mona, Katharina E. Grunz, Silke Brauer, Robert Barnes and Brigitte Pakendorf, et al. ‘Corrigendum’, Molecular Biology and Evolution 28 (8), 2011, pp. 2419-2420.
Emma Cohen ‘Cross-cultural similarities and differences in person-body reasoning: Experimental evidence from the UK and Brazilian Amazon’, Cognitive Science 35 (7), 2011, pp. 1282-1304.
Mette Louise Berg ‘Digital Diasporas conference review’, Anthropology Today 27 (2), 2011, pp. 28.
David Zeitlyn ‘Finding Meaning in the Text: The Process of Interpretation in Text-Based Divination’, Using Documents and Records in Social Research (L. Prior), 2011.
Iain Walker ‘Hybridity, Belonging, and Mobilities: the Intercontinental Peripatetics of a Transnational Community’, Population, Space and Place 17 (2), 2011, pp. 167-178.
Morgan Clarke and Marcia Inhorn ‘Mutuality and immediacy between marja‘ and muqallid: evidence from male IVF patients in Shi‘i Lebanon’, International Journal of Middle East Studies 43 (3), 2011, pp. 409-427.
David N. Gellner ‘Not If But How: Ethnicity will have a role in the constitution, the question is just what that role will be’, The Kathmandu Post (2 May), 2011.
David N. Gellner ‘Preconditions of Democracy: An Outsider's Reflections and Their Reception in Nepal’, European Bulletin of Himalayan Research 38 , 2011, pp. 35-60.
L.J. Horsfall, David Zeitlyn, A. Tarekegn, E. Bekele, M.G. Thomas, N. Bradman and D.M. Swallow ‘Prevalence of Clinically Relevant UGT1A Alleles and Haplotypes in African Populations’, Annals of Human Genetics 75 , 2011, pp. 236-246.
M Jokela, Alexandra Alvergne, TV Pollet and V Lummaa ‘Reproductive behaviour and the personality traits of the Five Factor Model’, European Journal of Personality 25 , 2011, pp. 487-500.
Mette Louise Berg ‘Review Essay: ‘Revolutionizing Romance: Interracial Couples in Contemporary Cuba’ by Nadine T. Fernandez, and ‘Cuba in the Special Period: Culture and Ideology in the 1990s’ by Ariana Hernandez-Reguant (Ed.)’, Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology 16 (1), 2011, pp. 252-255.
David Zeitlyn ‘Review of 'Lancit, Matthew. Funeral season (la saison des funérailles): marking death in Cameroon. 2010'’, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (N.S) 17 , 2011, pp. 632-680.
Alexandra Alvergne, E Gurmu, MA Gibson and R Mace ‘Social transmission and the spread of modern contraception in rural Ethiopia’, PLoS One 6 (7), 2011, pp. e22515.
Laura Peers and Cara Krmpotich (eds) ‘The Scholar-practitioner expanded: An indigeneous and museum research network’, Museum Management and Curatorship (Special issue) v26 (4), 2011.
Jonathan Lanman ‘Thou shalt believe, or not’, New Scientist , 2011.
Iain Walker and Moussa Said Ahmed ‘Two fisherman's songs from Ngazidja, Comoro Islands’, Wasafiri 26 (2), 2011, pp. 59-62.
B. Pawlowski and Stanley Ulijaszek ‘Waist-to-hip ratio and woman's education level as predictors of breastfeeding duration’, Collegium Antropologicum 35 , 2011, pp. 313-318.
David Zeitlyn ‘You can't build a car with just one wheel (why duplication may not be such a bad thing), and some limitations of internet search/retrieval’, First Monday 16 (9), 2011.
Harvey Whitehouse ‘Whence and wither social anthropology’, Annales de la Fondation Fyssen Hors Serie 30e Anniversaire , 2011, pp. 19-29.
Harvey Whitehouse ‘The Coexistence Problem in Psychology, Anthropology, and Evolutionary Theory’, Human Development 54 , 2011, pp. 191-199.
Books:
Mette Louise Berg Diasporic Generations: Memory, Politics and Nation among Cubans in Spain., 2011, Oxford: Berghahn Books.
Iain Morley The Prehistory of Music: The evolutionary origins and archaeology of human musical behaviours (Forthcoming), 2011, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Contributions to books:
Iain Morley ‘A Grand Gesture: vocal and corporeal control in melody, rhythm and emotion’, In P. Rebuschat, P. Rohrmeier, J. Hawkins and I. Cross Language and Music as Cognitive Systems, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011, pp. 110-120.
David N. Gellner ‘Belonging, Indigeneity, Rites, and Rights: The Newar Case’, In J. Pfaff-Czarnecka and G. Toffin (eds) The Politics of Belonging in the Himalayas, Delhi: Sage, 2011, pp. 45-76.
Stanley Ulijaszek ‘Childhood obesity as an amplifier of societal obesity in the United States’, In D. Bacghi (ed.) Global Perspectives on Childhood Obesity, London: Academic Press, 2011, pp. 463-474.
Morgan Clarke ‘Children of the revolution: Ayatollah Khamene’i’s ‘liberal’ views on in vitro fertilisation (reprint of BJMES article)’, In L. Ridgeon (ed.) Iranian intellectuals: 1997-2007, London: Routledge, 2011, pp. 27-43.
Stephen Oppenheimer ‘Consultant for chapters 174-196 (Out of Africa)’, In Alice Roberts Evolution: The Human Story, London: Dorling Kindersley, 2011.
Mette Louise Berg ‘Cubans in Spain: Transnational Connections and Memories’, In Catherine Krull (ed.) Cuba in a Global Context: International Relations, Internationalism, and Transnationalism, Gainsville: University of Florida Press, 2011.
David N. Gellner ‘Editor’s Comment’, In Shrilaxmi Shrestha A Cry in the Wilderness and Other Short Stories, Kathmandu: Vajra Publications, 2011, pp. ix-x.
Elisabeth Hsu ‘Expériences de la personne, de la santé, et de la maladie en Chine’, In M. Godelier (ed.) Maladie et Santé Selon les Sociétés et les Cultures, Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2011, pp. 75-110.
Stephen Oppenheimer ‘MtDNA variation and southward Holocene human dispersals within Mainland Southeast Asia’, In N. J. Enfield (ed.) The Dynamics of Human Diversity: The Case of Mainland Southeast Asia, Canberra: Pacific Linguistics, 2011, pp. 81-108.
David N. Gellner ‘Preface’, In I. Fitzpatrick Cardamom and Class: A Limbu Village and its Extensions in East Nepal, Kathmandu: Vajra, 2011.
Emma Cohen ‘Religion and Rights: The Oxford Amnesty Lectures’, In Wes Williams , Manchester University Press: Manchester, 2011.
Harvey Whitehouse ‘Religious Reflexivity and Transmissive Frequency’, In Axel Michaels Ritual Dynamics and the Science of Ritual, Harrassowitz Verlag: Wiesbeden, 2011.
David N. Gellner ‘Varnasankarapan, taralata, bhumika grahan: Nepalko samvidhan nirmanma samajik vijnanka paribhashik sabdavalika abhiprayaharu’ [Hybridity, fluidity, performativity: Some implications of social science interpretive concepts for the formulation of the Nepal’s constitution], Nepali summary by Kapil Dahal’ Jatiyata ra Samghiyakaran sambandhi Brhat Gosthiko Sarsamksep [Ethnicity and Federalization: Summary conclusions of a large conference], Kathmandu: Central Department of Sociology and Anthropology, 2011, pp. 78-79.
Iain Walker ‘Yemen: the Resurgent Secessionism in the South’, In A. Pavković and P. Radan (eds) Ashgate Research Companion to Secession, Farnham: Ashgate, 2011.
Edited Books:
Marcus Banks and Jay Ruby (eds) Made to be Seen: Perspectives on the History of Visual Anthropology, 2011, Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Miscellany:
Iain Morley A review of Religion in the Emergence of Civilization: Çatalhöyük as a Case Study by Ian Hodder (ed.), 2011.