Internationalizing Physical Anthropology: A View of the Study of Living Human Variation from the Pages of the American Journal of Physical Anthropology

In this paper we present an overview of an increasingly global community of physical (biological) anthropologists as it pertains to the study of living human variation (human biology) and as it is represented in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology (AJPA), focusing especially on the period...

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Published in:	Current anthropology 2012-04, Vol.53 (S5), p.S139-S151
Main Authors:	Larsen, Clark Spencer, Williams, Leslie Lea
Format:	Article
Language:	eng
Subjects:	20th century Anthropological theory Anthropologists Authorship Biological anthropology Biology Cooperation Genetic research Hrdlicka, Ales Human evolution Human genetics Periodicals Physical anthropology Population Professional Identity Stewart, T. Dale U.S.A United States of America
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Summary:	In this paper we present an overview of an increasingly global community of physical (biological) anthropologists as it pertains to the study of living human variation (human biology) and as it is represented in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology (AJPA), focusing especially on the period of 2001-2007, when Clark Spencer Larsen served as editor in chief. The journal was founded by Ales Hrdlicka in order to provide professional identity of physical (biological) anthropology as practiced in the United States. By the mid-twentieth century, the journal editorship under T. Dale Stewart called for greater presence of international research collaboration and publication in AJPA. By 1960, international collaboration and non-U.S. authorship began to have significant presence in the journal, a pattern that has continued to the present. As in the pre-2000 period, although non-US contributions cover all major topics in human biology, they tend to focus on population genetics and population history. For the period of 2001-2007, there is an increased presence of multinational collaborative research and non-US authorship, a trend that will likely increase. The recent rise in non-US submissions and authorship is due in large part to increased international collaboration and electronic access to the submission process. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]
ISSN:	0011-3204 1537-5382