Histories of American Physical Anthropology in the Twentieth Century

Michael A. Little is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the State University of New York at Binghamton.Kenneth A. R. Kennedy is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Cornell University.

This volume is the first comprehensive treatment of physical anthropology's history to appear since Frank Spencer's in 1982, to whom it is appropriately dedicated. The contributors are all established and eminent scholars who have experienced our history and consequently understand it and appreciate it. It will serve as a text in university courses, and as a general reference for professionals.

• 1 Table of Contents2 Preface3 Contributors to the VolumeChapter 4 1. Introduction to the History of American Physical AnthropologyChapter 5 2. "Physical" Anthropology at the Turn of the Last CenturyChapter 6 3. Franz Boas's Place in American Physical Anthropology and Its InstitutionsChapter 7 4. Ale? Hrdlicka and the Founding of the American Journal of Physical Anthropology: 1918Chapter 8 5. Principal Figures in Early 20th Century Physical Anthropology: With Special Treatment of Forensic AnthropologyChapter 9 6. The Founding of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists (AAPA): 1930Chapter 10 7. Principal Figures in Physical Anthropology before and During World War IIChapter 11 8. The Post War Years: The Yearbook of Physical Anthropology and the Summer InstitutesChapter 12 9. Sherwood Washburn and "The New Physical Anthropology"Chapter 13 10. The Two Twentieth Century Crises of Racial AnthropologyChapter 14 11. Race and the Conflicts within the Profession of Physical Anthropology during the 1950s and 1960sChapter 15 12. 75 Years of the Annuals Meetings of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, 1930-2004Chapter 16 13. Description, Hypothesis Testing, and Conceptual Advances in Physical Anthropology: Have We Moved On?