Histories of American Physical Anthropology in the Twentieth Century chronicles the history of physical anthropology_or, as it is now known, biological anthropology_from its professional origins in the late 1800 up to its modern transformation in the late 1900s. In this edited volume, 13 contributors trace the development of people, ideas, traditions, and organizations that contributed to the advancement of this branch of anthropology that focuses today on human variation and human evolution.

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