Editorial Board
Please note that the order in which the Editors appear on this page is alphabetical, and follows the structure of the editorial board presented on the MDPI website under information for editors: editorial board responsibilities.
Members
Interests: the evolution of early agricultural and early complex societies in the Old World (Europe, Africa and Asia) from the Neolithic to the Iron Age
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Interests: biological anthropology; medical anthropology; total worker health; environmental health; occupational health; population health; mixed methods
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Interests: community archaeology; Indigenous archaeology; landscape archaeology; culture con contact; agricultural systems; Southeast Asia; Philippines
Interests: anthropology of South American Indians; anthropology of material culture; the arts of ritual museum anthropology
Interests: evolutionary psychology; biological anthropology; cognitive development; hunter-gatherer ecology; South America; child development; morality; indigenous knowledge
Interests: origin of modern behaviour; the archaeology of fire; ancient pyrotechnologies; use of space; site formation processes; geoarchaeology; soil micromorphology; indigenous archaeology
Interests: maternal and child health; gender equity in economic development; culturally competent humanitarian response; Southeast Asia; Sub-Saharan Africa
Interests: archaeology; shell; sociology of archaeology; gender; Archaic US; symbolism; caves; ritual; landscape; central Mexico
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Interests: human origins and evolution; social and cultural evolution; cultural ecology; material culture; cognitive evolution; Palaeolithic archaeology; Epipalaeolithic archaeology; hunter-gatherer archaeology; social archaeology; early village society
Interests: comparative social systems; theories of culture; contemporary and prehistoric hunter-gatherers; societies of Southeast Asia; Orang Asli; gender and age-structures; social learning; equality, and inequ
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Interests: egyptology; middle and neo-egyptian languages; ancient Egyptian law and legal linguistic registers; cognitive linguistics and categorization of ancient Egyptian scripts; iconography and semiotics; nonverbal communication in art; royal ideology and visual strategies during Akhenaten's reign; Egyptian(izing) material culture in the Southern Levant; cultural transmission in the second millennium BCE
Interests: abolition; slavery; Western Indian Ocean; gender; Mozambique; oral history; Somalia; dance and memory; research film; healing processes; complementary medicine; refugees; translocality; forced migrati
Interests: Eastern Europe; Hungary; US (southwest); consumer culture; material culture; Anthro of the Body; built environment (architecture)
Interests: Basque language and culture; ethno- and archaeo-astronomy; ethnomathematics; cultural linguistics; European folklore, folktales & performance art; orality; relational ontology; new animism; bear ceremonialism
Interests: environmental anthropology; natural resource management; AIDS; ethnicity; autochthony and indigeneity; kinship; religion; West-Africa (Cameroon, Burkina Faso); Southern Africa (South-Africa, Botswana, Swaziland, Zambia); East-Africa (Tanzania, Uganda); Southeast Asia (Malaysia, Thailand); Denmark
Interests: biological anthropology; human evolution; the Paleolithic of Central Asia; neandertal paleobiology; biogeography and GIS; dental anthropology
Interests: ethnography; anthropology of food; medical anthropology; gender and body; globalization and social change; social inequality and food insecurity; Spain and Mexico
Interests: zooarchaeology; ancient Near East; complex societies; political economy; Mesopotamia; Bronze and Iron Ages; ancient food provisioning; anthropology; archaeology
Interests: archaeoastronomy; ethnoastronomy; historical astronomy; cultural astronomy; skyscape archaeology; astroanthropology; astroarchaeology; cultural cosmology
Interests: biocultural approaches to illness; cultural dimensions of health and global health; health literacy and knowledge distribution in health care; healer-patient communication; autoimmune and chronic diseases; illness experience and patient behavior including adherence; women’s and children's health
Interests: cultural anthropology; urban anthropology; psychological anthropology; human sexuality; romantic love; family systems; human universals; Mormon fundamentalist polygamy; China; Inner Mongolia
Interests: language Ideological assemblages; language contact; lingual life histories; linguistic racism; language revitalization and reclamation; language and identity; verbal art and performance; indigenous language ideologies; multilingualisms; grammaticalization; etho-lexicography; Pueblo Southwest (US); Indigenous California; critical linguistic anthropology
Interests: the imaginary; urban studies; popular culture (suburban, design, branding, irony, recycling); Rome; Italy; the classic world (Mesopotamia, The Mediterranean); northwest Aboriginal peoples; west coast Indigenous peoples; Indigenous peoples of the Plateau; Indigenous peoples of the North American Southwest
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Interests: military, war, and society; race and gender; democracy; automobility and inequality; subjectivity and power; photography and cultural history; critical theory; anthropological methods; sociocultural contexts of science and technology; U.S. twentieth century history and ethnography; asia-pacific
Interests: northern Indigenous peoples; lands and resource management; linguistic anthropology; oral history; life history; ethnographic theory and method; hunting
Interests: cultural anthropology; Social inequality especially class, gender, and race; social change, programs, and policy; food, health, heritage; Washington DC to West Virginia’s Eastern Panhandle, the Potomac River; India/South Asia
Interests: sociology and social anthropology
Interests: human ecology; historical ecology; native resource management; savanna and tropical forest adaptive systems; South American early hunter/gatherers; Agrarian societies past and present; complex societies; Latin American archaeology and ethnography
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Interests: anthropological genetics and epigenetics: nutrition; the role of diet and epigenetics in adaptation, migration, disease, and evolution; adipokines, energy homeostasis, and obesity; variation in nutritional phenotypes; microbiome; sustainability of a healthy food chain. Indigenous populations of Siberia and other Circumpolar groups
Interests: history and anthropology; maritime anthropology; anthropology of religion; anthropology of humanitarianism