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the world over treat menstruating women as taboo? An anthropologist offers a new answer - and a challenge to Western ideas about contraception" A Woman's Curse?, Meredith F. Small, The Sciences, Jan/Feb 1999, pp. 24-29. In almost all mammals,…

Warfare "The fate of Africa's rarest apes hinges on battles over their territory as well as their taxonomy" Gorilla Warfare, Craig B. Stanford, The Sciences, Jul/Aug 1999, pp.18-23. Rwanda, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda,…

walk? For decades anthropologists said that we became bipedal to survive on the African savanna. But a slew of new fossils have destroyed that appealing notion and left researchers groping for a new paradigm." Sunset on the Savanna, James…

secrets of genetic destiny bring comfort or only more sorrow to a remote land ravaged by violence?" The Fortune Teller, Kenneth S. Kosik, The Sciences, Jul/Aug 1999, pp.13-17. Kenneth S. Kosik is a professor of neurology at Harvard Medical…

Diversity "We... have to stop teaching or accepting the idea that humans are divided into three races - Caucasian, Negroid, and Mongoloid - an idea that is at least 50 years out of date." Culture, Not Race, Explains Human Diversity,…

human existence, it is very evident that all cultures have developed through an initial resistance against adaptation to the reality in which they find themselves." (Beatrice Hinkle) It is obvious that in Las Casas' book, Amerindians are constantly…

before 1840. Evaluate the view of modern historians that Maori dominated these early exchanges and acted out of primarily Maori motives. Pre 1840 contact between Maori and Pakeha was limited to the coast and revolved around trade, religion and…

of global problems including poverty, racism, and environmental destruction. There is a focus on the system of capitalism and the way the ideal and practices of capitalism, consumerism and globalisation affect the aforementioned issues. The …

of the American Southwest, were centered in the middle Gila and Salt river drainage basins in the semiarid Sonoran Desert of Arizona. This landscape had some mountain ranges separated by level basins or plains. The mountains were important as a source…

from the Desert culture of the Great Basin and Southwest. People of the Desert culture hunted, fished, and gathered wild foods. In the processing of food, the Mogollon used crushing and grinding operations. Corn, wild seeds, and nuts were probably…