Holistic Anthropology

Anthropologists mostly from Oxford University describe how some anthropologists over the past decade or so have been paying more attention to developments in the study in social and biological evolution, and of material culture, and argue that that attention has brought social, material, cultural, and biological anthropologies closer to each other and closer to allied disciplines such as archaeology and psychology. Their topics include bioculturalism, evolutionary approaches to human behavior, the five agents and the body ecology in Chinese medicine, and anthropological theory and the multiple determinacy of the present. Annotation c2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Stanley Ulijaszek is Professor of Human Ecology at the University of Oxford, and was previously at the University of Cambridge. Current research interests include human evolutionary nutrition, and biocultural determinants of nutritional health in transitional economies of Eastern Europe and the Pacific. He has conducted research in Papua New Guinea, the Cook Islands, Poland, the UK, Australia, Bangladesh, Nepal and India. His books include Human Energetics in Biological Anthropology; Nutritional Anthropology; Prospects and Perspectives (with Simon Strickland).