IUP Anthropology OER - Dr. Allysha Winburn:  Forensic Anthropology and Race
Channel: IUP Anthropology
Date: 2020-10-27

IUP Anthropology presents Dr. Allysha Winburn (UWF) discussing Forensic Anthropology and the concept of race.  Part of the upcoming Introduction to 4-field Anthropology OER.

See the following links to continue this discussion:
More information on macromorphoscopics is available at the free Osteoware module:  https://osteoware.si.edu/guide/macromorphoscopics-module

More information about the relationship between nasal shape and climate in this open-access PLOS article:  https://journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/article?id=10.1371/journal.pgen.1006616

The Forensic Anthropology Data Bank contains extensive demographic information for many cases, including place of birth, medical history, occupation, stature, and weight. The skeletal information for cases includes cranial and postcranial metrics, suture closure information, various aging criteria scores, non-metric cranial information, perimortem trauma, congenital traits, and dental observations.  https://fac.utk.edu/background/

Is it valuable to assess ancestry?  See the abstract of this article by Dr. Konigsberg and colleagues (2009):  https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/ajpa.20934  

Does it cause harm to assess ancestry?  See this letter to the editors by Drs. Bethard and DiGangi (2020):  https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirect/10.1111/1556-4029.14513

How race makes us sick:  See David William's TEDMED talk:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzyjDR_AWzE