Acknowledgements
The author thanks all the authors and vignette writers to this issue who took the time to comment on her earlier drafts. She also thanks Josep Comelles, Alice Desclaux, Suzette Heald, Helle Johannessen, Murray Last, Anne-Lise Middleton, David Parkin and Martine Verwey for clarifying specific points. Finally, special thanks go to Caroline Potter.
Conflict of interest: none.
Notes
1. This is so although Murray Last, Gilbert Lewis and Vieda Skultans have a paper in this ASA volume, as they do in Loudon (Citation1976) and Littlewood (Citation2007).
2. For a more recent, similarly creative attempt to overcome the widespread ‘aversion’ among medical anthropologists against biological anthropology, see Parkin and Ulijaszek (Citation2007).