Anthropology explored: the best of Smithsonian AnthroNotes

Foreword / David W. McCurdy

Preface / Ruth Osterweis Selig

Art of Anthropology: A Note from the Artist / Robert L. Humphrey

Introduction: Human Origins, Diversity, and Cultures / Ruth Osterweis Selig

1. "Ape-ing" Language: Communicating with Our Closest Relatives / Kathleen D. Gordon

2. Are Humans Inherently Violent? / Robert W. Sussman

3. One Man's Search for Human Origins / Ruth Osterweis Selig and Rick Potts

4. New Research in Early Human Origins 7 to 1 Million Years Ago / Alison S. Brooks and Rick Potts

5. Emergence of Modern Humans / Alison S. Brooks

6. Real Flintstones: Artists' Depictions of Human Ancestors / Diane Gifford-Gonzalez

7. Stories Bones Tell / Kathleen D. Gordon

8. Disease in Human Evolution / George J. Armelagos, Kathleen C. Barnes and James Lin

9. Moche: An Ancient Peruvian People / John W. Verano

10. America's MIAs: Forensic Anthoropology in Action / Robert W. Mann and Thomas D. Holland

11. New Way to Look at Race / Boyce Rensberger

12. Race and Ethnicity / Alison S. Brooks, Fatimah L. C. Jackson and Roy Richard Grinker

13. Agricultural Origins in the Ancient World / Melinda A. Zeder

14. Progress? The Facts of Ancient Life / Mark N. Cohen

15. Ethnoarchaeology Among the EFE: African Hunter-Gatherers / John W. Fisher, Jr.

16. Vikings: Old Views and New Findings / William W. Fitzhugh

17. Who Got to America First? Fact and Fiction / Stephen Williams

18. Researching the First Americans: One Archaeologists's Journey / Ruth Osterweis Selig and Dennis J. Stanford

19. First South Americans: Archaeology at Monte Verde / Tom D. Dillehay

20. Who Were the Ancient Maya? / Jeremy A. Sabloff

21. Origins of Agriculture in Eastern North America / Ruth Osterweis Selig and Bruce D. Smith

22. East Meets West: New View of Arctic Peoples / William W. Fitzhugh

23. Archaeology of African American Life / Theresa A. Singleton

24. Cultural Relativism and Universal Human Rights / Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban

25. Andean Women: United We Sit / Catherine J. Allen

26. Identity in Colonial Northern Mexico / William L. Merrill

27. Whose Past is it Anyway? Plains Indian History / Loretta Fowler

28. Native Americans and Smithsonian Research / JoAllyn Archambault and William C. Sturtevant

29. Silk Road: A Global Cultural Economy / Richard Kurin

30. Refugees: Worldwide Displacement and International Response / Stephen C. Lubkemann

31. Linguistic Survival Among the Maya / Robert M. Laughlin

32. From Tattoo to Piercing: Body Art as Visual Language / Enid Schildkrout and Adrienne L. Kaeppler

33. Medicine, Law, and Education: Applied Linguistics / P. Ann Kaupp and Roger W. Shuy

34. Repatriation Mandate: A Clash of World Views / Tamara L. Bray

35. Museums and Repatriation: One Case Study / William T. Billeck

36. Aging: An Anthropological Perspective / Alison S. Brooks and Patricia Draper.