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Armelagos, George John was born on May 22, 1936 in Lincoln Park, Michigan, United States. Son of John and Ashimo (Tsafaras) Armelagos.
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Societies in transition are often faced with new settings and/or new diseases that require a response in order for the affected group to thrive or survive. A lack of effective response by a transitional population to a new pathogen can lead to the group's disintegration. A stark example of this, historically, is the decline of Native American civilizations with the arrival of European colonists in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The transitional response mechanism has been a neglected topic in anthropology until the publication of this book. In a broad selection of nineteen essays by distinguished researchers, the epidemiology and health status of prehistoric, historical, and present day populations in transition are thoroughly explored. Different models--biomedical, ethnomedical, ecological, and politicoeconomic--are used to illustrate the effects of transition on the health of human populations throughout the world. Swedlund and Armelagos have compiled and arranged these essays into three parts: genetic and evolutionary perspectives; infectious disease and nutrition in temporal perspective; and social epidemiology. Some of the topics studied in the essays include: disease and evolution in Amerindian populations; health and disease in prehistoric transitional peoples; mortality and morbidity consequences of nutritional variation in early child growth; and social support and mortality in post-transition populations. This insightful book will provide a vital perspective for medical anthropologists, development specialists, epidemiologists, and health professionals, as well as for graduate students in related course areas.
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Armelagos, George John was born on May 22, 1936 in Lincoln Park, Michigan, United States. Son of John and Ashimo (Tsafaras) Armelagos.
Bachelor, University Michigan, 1958. Master of Arts, University Colorado, 1963. Doctor of Philosophy, University Colorado, 1968.
Assistant professor anthropology, U. Utah, Salt Lake City, 1965-1968;
assistant professor anthropology, U. Massachusetts, Amherst, 1968-1973;
associate professor, U. Massachusetts, Amherst, 1973-1978;
professor, U. Massachusetts, Amherst, 1978-1990;
professor, chair anthropology, U. Florida, Gainesville, 1990-1993;
professor anthropology, Emory University, Atlanta, since 1993. Member of advisory committee behavioral and neurological science National Science Foundation, 1976-1979. Member J.T. Staley prize committee School American Research, 1990.
Visiting professor anthropology U. Colorado, Boulder, summer 1983, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88.
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Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science (delegate to council 1986-1989, chair section H anthropology since 1996), American Anthropol. Association (chair biological unit 1984-1987, distinguished lecturer general anthropology division 1994), American Association Physical Anthropologists (president 1987-1989). Member Society Medical Anthropology (awards committee W.H. Rivers prize 1990), Northeast Anthropol.
Association (president 1987-1988).
Married Adina Schrager. Married Lynn Middleton Sibley, June 22, 1991. 1 child, Gabriel Sibley.