title: Anthropology at the University of Michigan in the late 1950s.
abstract: By 1958, the Anthropology Department at the University of Michigan had emerged as a major center in the discipline. Its excellence derived from a strong faculty, commitment to an integrated view of the field, and broader support from a rising national tide of scholarship. While many new intellectual currents developed, among the strongest was biological-behavioral theory--somewhat ironically flourishing in a biological anthropology program that viewed itself as a nexus of population genetics. The biological anthropology faculty thought like anthropologists. From this environment, Frank Livingstone not only drew intellectual support, but also became a key player in demonstrating the importance of historical and cultural factors to shaping biological patterns. A biocultural perspective is evident in Michigan research to this day.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anthropology, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 14261, USA.
authors.forename: Theodore
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Steegmann
mesh_terms: D000883:Anthropology / Q000266:history*; D000885:Anthropology, Physical / Q000266:history; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D008824:Michigan; D014495:Universities / Q000266:history*