Toc: PART I Biological Anthropology1 Teaching Theories: The Evolution-Creation Controversy- Robert Root-Bernstein and Donald L. McEachron2 Re-reading Root-Bernstein and McEachron in Cobb County, Georgia: A Year Past and Present- Benjamin Freed3 Great Mysteries of Human Evolution- Carl Zimmer4 A New Kind of Ancestor: Ardipithecus Unveiled- Ann Gibbons5 What are Friends For?- Barbara Smuts6 Mothers and Others- Sarah Blaffer Hrdy7 Apes, Hominids, and the Roots of Religion- Barbara King8 How Race Becomes Biology: Embodiment of Social Inequality- Clarence C. Gravlee9 Ancient Bodies, Modern Customs, and Our Health- Elizabeth D. Whitaker10 Ancient Genes and Modern Health- S. Boyd Eaton and Melvin Konner11 The Tall and the Short of It- Barry Bogin12 Identifying Victims after a Disaster-Dick GouldPART II Archaeology13 Dawn of a New Stone Age in Eye Surgery- Payson D. Sheets14 Feminine Knowledge and Skills Reconsidered: Women and Flaked Stone Tools- Kathryn Weedman Arthur15 The Secrets of Ancient Tiwanaku Are Benefiting Today's Bolivia- Baird Straughan16 Disease and Death at Dr. Dickson's Mounds- Alan H. Goodman and George J. Armelagos17 Uncovering America's Pyramind Builders- Karen Wright18 Battle of the Bones- Robson Bonnichsen and Alan L. Schneider19 The Challenge of Race to American Historical Archaeology- Charles E. Orser Jr.20 Archaeology and the Vauna Development in Fiji- Andrew Crosby21 Around the Mall and Beyond- Michael Kernan22 "Clean Your Plate. There Are People Starving in Africa!": The Application of Archaeology and Ethnography to America's Food Loss Issues- Timothy W. JonesPART III Linguistic Anthropology23 From Heofonum to Heavens- Yudhiijit Bhattacharjee23 "To Give up on Words": Silence in Western Apache Culture- Keith H. Basso25 Village of the Deaf: In a Bedouin Town, a Language Is Born- Margalit Fox26 Shifting Norms of Linguistic and Cultural Respect: Hybrid Sociolinguistic Zulu Identities- Stephanie Inge Rudwick27 Lost in Translation- Lera Boroditsky28 Talk in the Intimate Relationship: His and Hers- Deborah TannemPART IV Cultural AnthropologyCULTURE AND FIELDWORK29 Body Ritual among the Nacirema- Horace Miner30 Shakespeare in the Bush-Laura Bohannan31 Eating Christmas in the Kalahari- Richard Borshay LeeFAMILY & KINSHIP32 Our Babies, Ourselves- Meredith F. Small33 How Many Fathers Are Best for a Child?- Meredith F. Small34 When Brothers Share a Wife- Melvyn C. Goldstein35 How Families Work: Love, Labor and Mediated Oppositions in American Domestic Ritual- Mark AuslanderGENDER AND SEXUALITY36 "Strange Country This": An Introduction to North American Gender Diversity- Will Roscoe37 Tricking and Tripping: Fieldwork on Prostitution in the Era of AIDS- Claire E. Sterk38 Law, Custom, and Crimes against Women: The Problem of Dowry Death in India- John van Wiligen