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NORTH AMERICA: Notes on Hopi Clans . R obert H. L owie .
Hopi Kinship . R obert H. L owie .     

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NORTH AND SOUTH AMERICA: The Agricultural and Hunting Methods of the Navaho Indians . W. W. H ill .
NORTH AND SOUTH AMERICA: A Brief History of Navajo Silver smithing . A rthur W oodward .
NORTH AND SOUTH AMERICA: Navaho Life of Yesterday and Today . K atharine L uomala .     

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NORTH AND SOUTH AMERICA: Wintu Ethnography. C ora D u B ois
NORTH AND SOUTH AMERICA: Sinkyone Notes. G ladys A yer N omland.
NORTH AND SOUTH AMERICA: Varia Anthropologica.     

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NORTH AND SOUTH AMERICA: Excavations at Snaketown: Material Culture . H arold S. G ladwin , E mil Haury, E. B. S ayles , N ora G ladwin .
NORTH AND SOUTH AMERICA: Excavations at Snaketown, II: Comparisons and Theories. H arold S. G ladwin .     

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NORTH AMERICA: Family Hunting Territories and Social Life of Various Algonkian Bands of the Ottawa Valley. F. G. Speck.
Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa. F. G. Speck.     

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NORTH AND SOUTH AMERICA: Observaciones sobre la alfareria de los Médanos de Colón. A ntonio S errano. (Memmorias del Museo de Paraná, No. 6, Paraná, 1933.) Las culturas protohistóricas del Este Argentino y Uruguay. A ntonio S errano. (Memorias del Museo de Paraná, No. 7, Paraná, 1933.) La estructura de los túmulos indígenas prehispánicos del Departamento de Guaieguaychú. H éctor G reslebin. (Apartado de la Revista de la Sociedad "Amigos de la Arqueología," Vol. 5, pp. 1–51, Montevideo, 1931.) Dos vasos indígenas—Hallados en Puerto Basilio. H éctor G reslebin.
NORTH AND SOUTH AMERICA: Nueva hipótesis sobre el destino de las placas grabadas de la Patagonia prehistórica. H éctor G reslebin. (Physis, Vol. 9, pp. 223–33, Buenos Aires, 1928). Descripción de dos nuevas placas rectangulares grabadas de Patagonia prehispánica. H éctor G reslebin. (Physis, Vol. 10, pp. 8–16, Buenos Aires, 1930.) Instrumental lítico de Patagonia prehispánica. H éctor G reslebin.
NORTH AND SOUTH AMERICA: La antigüedad del hombre en la región de Sayape, Provincia de San Luis, República Argentina ( Nota preliminar ). H éctor G reslebin. (Proceedings, Twenty-third International Congress of Americanists, pp. 305–12, New York, 1930). Las llamadas "botijas" o "tinajas" de la Provincia de San Luis ( República Argentina ). H éctor G reslebin. (Physis, Vol. 9, pp. 46–71, Buenos Aires, 1928.) Los "morteritos" de Cerro Varela. H éctor G reslebin.     

"Taco" tongue fold in Seminole Indians

Two Florida Seminole Indians demonstrated the ability to fold the tongue longitudinally, with the open side either to the right or to the left.     

Social Dimensions of Evolutionary Research: Discovering Native American History in Colonial Southeastern U.S.

Beginning in the late sixteenth century, a series of Spanish missions was built in coastal Georgia and northern Florida. These missions were designed to convert and “civilize” the indigenous peoples of the region and establish a Spanish presence in the southeastern United States. The colony was not a success, and the missions were destroyed by the English by 1706. The native population fared poorly and suffered massive loss of people due to epidemics and colonial period hardships. In this paper, I discuss microevolutionary analyses of archeological skeletal samples representing the native populations from the region. Analyses document changing patterns of variation and intergroup biological integration through time. Formal evolutionary interpretations are offered, but these are reinterpreted with respect to the social and historical context of the time period. Specifically, patterns of variation suggest a nascent Catholic Indian identity was emergent in Spanish Florida when the missions were destroyed. While this may indicate an evolutionary and historical “dead end” for the indigenous peoples of Florida, further interpretation of the data with respect to the later history of the early Seminole people suggests a continuous biological history can be inferred, linking Spanish period (seventeenth century) and Seminole period (eighteenth century) peoples of Florida within a unified historical narrative. This complex, ephemeral history has repercussions for interpreting evolutionary genetic data within a strict cladistic framework. In addition, this research contributes a humanistic component to the evolutionary sciences with respect to cultural patrimony and oral traditions, in this case, of the Seminole peoples.     

Cerumen types and PTC-tasting in the Seminole indians of Florida

Of 100 Seminole Indians of Florida examined for cerumen, 44 had the dry type, 37 were wet, 10 were beady, and nine were indeterminate or absent. All except one of 53 Indians tested for PTC-tasting was a taster.     

The Seminole pumpkin

The authors here present evidence that Cucurbita moschata, of which numerous cultivated varieties are known and the nativity of which has been in doubt, is an indigenous species of Florida, and that the Seminole pumpkin, long used by the Floridian aborigines, is its prototype.     

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SOUTH AMERICA: Los Principios de la Civilizacion en la Sierra Peruana. M ax U hle .
SOUTH AMERICA: Origines Centroamericanos. M ax U hle . ( Ibid
SOUTH AMERICA: Influencias Mayas en el Alto Ecuador. M ax U hle . ( Ibid
SOUTH AMERICA: Los Principios de las Antiguas Civilizaciones Peruanas. M ax U hle .
SOUTH AMERICA: Fundamentos Etnicos y Arqueología de Arica y Tacna. M ax U hle .
Civilizaciones Mayoides de la Costa Pacifica de Sudamérica. M ax U hle . ( Ibid.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Man the Hunter. Edited by Richard B. Lee and Irven DeVore Primates: Studies in Adaptation and Variability. Edited by Phyllis C. Jay The Unlucky Australians. By Frank Hardy. Nelson Megalithic Sites in Britain. By Alexander Thom The Development of Omaha Kinship Terminologies in Three Australian Aboriginal Tribes of the Kimberley Division, Western Australia. By Peter Lucich Kimberley Region: an annotated bibliography. Compiled by Beryl F. Craig San Bernadino Contla. By Hugo G. Nutini The Old Stone Age. By François Bordes. Translated by J. E. Anderson The Origins and Growth of Archaeology. By Glyn Daniel Conceptions of Kentucky Prehistory. By Douglas W. Schwartz The Judicial Process among the Barotse of Northern Rhodesia. By Max Gluckman The Life History in Anthropological Science. By L. L. Langness. Holt     

The Seminole Indians of Florida: morphology and serology

The Seminole Indians of Florida were studied on their three reservations for blood types, red cell enzymes, serum proteins, physical measurements, and relationships. Both serologic and morphologic factors suggest their close similarity to other Indians and small amount of admixture. The Florida Seminoles are similar to Cherokee “full-bloods” in their absence of Rho and their incidence of O and M. In the presence of Di^a they are similar to other Indians, especially those of South America. While the presence of G-6-P-D A and the frequency of Hgb. S are indicative of Negro ancestry, the absence of Rho suggests that the Negro contribution must have been small. Physical traits give parallel results. Both serology and morphology further show that the Seminoles of the Dania and Big Cypress reservations are more similar to each other than to those of the Brighton reservation, in keeping with their history.     

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MEXICO, CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA: Excavations at Zacatenco. G eorge C. V aillant.
MEXICO, CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA: Excavations at Ticoman. G eorge C. V aillant. (Same series, Vol. 32, Part 2, 1931.)
MEXICO, CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA: Excavations at Gualupita. S uzannah B. and G eorge C. V aillant. (Same series, Vol. 35, Part 1, 1934.)
MEXICO, CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA: Excavations at El Arbolillo. G eorge C. V aillant. (Same series, Vol. 35, Part 2, 1935.)
MEXICO, CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA: Early Cultures in the Valley of Mexico: Results of the Stratigraphical Project of the American Museum of Natural History in the Valley of Mexico, 1928–1933. G eorge C. V aillant. (Same series, Vol. 35, Part 3, 1935.)     

Production and survivorship of the functional stolons of giant cutgrass, Zizaniopsis miliacea (Poaceae)

Giant cutgrass [Zizaniopsis miliacea], a tall emergent grass native to the southeastern United States, was studied in two Florida lakes. In Lake Seminole (15 176 ha) giant cutgrass forms large expanding stands, but in Lake Alice (9 ha) it is confined to a stable narrow fringe. By monitoring individual plants in Lake Seminole, it was found that an average decumbent flowering stem produced three flowers and ten nodes, 80% of which became rooted in the substrate. Such flowering stem development could potentially result in stand expansion of 2.2–2.7 m/yr, depending upon water levels and rates of node rooting. Once flowering stems became decumbent in Lake Alice, they typically broke, producing no more than two flowers with four nodes in a growing season. While still attached to the parent plant, few of these nodes were able to become rooted in the substrate, limiting the rate of stand expansion in Lake Alice. Sections of flowering stems bearing axillary shoots that were detached from the parent plant and free-floating could become rooted on reaching shallow water and produce robust, new, flowering plants. This interesting mode of population dispersal and spread has important implications for the distribution and management of giant cutgrass.     

Three new species of Polyclithrum Rogers, 1967 (Gyrodactylidae: Monogenea) from mugilid fishes from Australia and Brazil, with a redescription of P. mugilini Rogers, 1967

Polyclithrum mugilini Rogers, 1967, a parasite of Mugil cephalus Linnaeus, is redescribed from type-material from Lake Seminole, Georgia, USA. Three new species of Polyclithrum Rogers, 1967 are also described: P. alberti n. sp. from M. cephalus from the Albert River, Queensland, Australia; P. boegeri n. sp. from M. platanus Günther from Rio da Guarda, State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; and P. corallense n. sp. from M. cephalus from Heron Island, Great Barrier Reef, Australia. The four species can be distinguished by the size and shape of haptoral sclerites, but in particular by accessory bar number 3, the dorsal bar, the marginal hooks and the hamulus point to shaft angle. The validity of Micropolyclithrum parvum Skinner, 1975, a parasite of M. cephalus in Biscayne Bay, Florida, is discussed, and a key to the species of Polyclithrum is presented.     

Book Reviewes

Interest and Emotion: Essays on the Study of Family and Kinship . Hans Medick and David Warren Sabean , eds.
Kinship in the Past: An Anthropology of European Family Life, 1500–1900 . Andrejs Plakans.     

Dividends of Kinship: Meanings and Uses of Social Relatedness.; New Directions in Anthropological Kinship.

Dividends of Kinship: Meanings and Uses of Social Relatedness. Peter P. Schweitzer. ed. New York: Routledge, 2000. 221 pp.
New Directions in Anthropological Kinship. Linda Stone. ed. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2001. 352 pp.     

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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA: Preliminary Report on the Smithsonian Institution-Harvard University Archaeological Expedition to Northwestern Honduras, 1936 . W illiam D uncan S trong , A lfred K idder II and A. J. D rexel P aul , J r .
CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA: An Archaeological Reconnaissance of Northwestern Honduras: A Report of the Work of the Tulane University-Danish National Museum Expedition to Central America 1935 . J ens Y de .     

Antimicrobial resistance of Campylobacter jejuni and Campylobacter coli isolates from broiler chickens isolated at an Irish poultry processing plant

AIMS: The antibiotic susceptibility of Campylobacter jejuni and Campylobacter coli isolates from broiler chickens were determined in order to evaluate the level of antibiotic resistance of Campylobacter species in the Irish poultry industry. METHODS AND RESULTS: Seventy-eight Camp. jejuni and 22 Camp. coli strains were examined for susceptibility to eight antibiotics using the disc diffusion assay. The highest level of resistance of the Camp. jejuni isolates was recorded to ampicillin (35.9%), followed by 20.5% to tetracycline, 20.5% to naladixic acid, 17.9% to ciprofloxacin, 10.2% to erythromycin, 2.5% to streptomycin and 1.2% to kanamycin. Multidrug resistance to two or more antibiotics was seen for 30.7% of Camp. jejuni strains. Resistance of the Camp. coli isolates was shown to ampicillin (9%) and tetracycline (18.2%). CONCLUSIONS: The majority of Camp. jejuni strains were susceptible to antibiotics commonly used for human therapy. Camp. coli strains showed very low resistance levels and were susceptible to six of the eight antimicrobial agents studied. SIGNIFICANCE AND IMPACT OF THE STUDY: Levels of Camp. jejuni and Camp. coli antimicrobial resistance in Irish poultry production was assessed to determine the current situation in Ireland. The prevalence of antibiotic resistance of Campylobacter strains isolated from broiler chickens was low.