Evolução Humana.
Hilton P. Silva
Letícia Terreri


Propriedades Geométricas da Diáfise Umeral e a Atividade Física.
Estudo de Restos Esqueléticos do Sambaqui da Beirada, Saquarema, Litoral do Rio de Janeiro.
Adilson Dias Salles
Claudia Rodrigues-Carvalho
Hilton P. Silva
Sheila Mendonça da Souza
Eduardo T. Tonomura


O Acervo de Remanescents Ósseos Humanos do Museu Nacional,
Rio de Janeiro: constituição e atividades de Curadoria (1995-1998).
Elizabeth Christina da Silva
Ricardo V. Santos
Sheila Mendonça da Souza
Claudia Rodrigues-Carvalho

Crânios, corpos e medidas: a constituição do acervo de
instrumentos antropométricos do MuseuNacional na passagem
do século XIX para o XX
Guilherme José da Silva e Sá
Ricardo V. Santos
Claudia Rodrigues-Carvalho
Elizabeth Christina da Silva

The Xavánte in Transition: Health, Ecology and Bioanthropology in Central Brazil
Carlos E. A. Coimbra, Jr., Nancy M. Flowers, Francisco M. Salzano & Ricardo V. Santos. 2002.

"By expertly documenting changes in Xavánte culture, ecology, and biology in relationship to larger systems of power, the authors have written a breakthrough book: an integrated and politically informed anthropology for the new millennium. They show how the local and the regional meet on the ground and under the skin."
• Alan H. Goodman, Professor of Biological Anthropology, Hampshire College

"This volume delivers what it promises. Drawing on twenty-five years of team research, the authors combine history, ethnography and bioanthropology on the cutting edge of science in highly readable form."
• Daniel Gross, Lead Anthropologist, The World Bank

"The Xavante in Transition is an immensely valuable work, an exemplary outcome of collaborative interdisciplinary research. It provides a major contribution to scholarship on native Lowland South Americans, whose medical and epidemiological conditions are extraordinarily understudied. The book, based on research spanning a thirty-year period, opens a window onto the complex patterns of demography, health, and disease of native Amazonians, demonstrating their relation to broader historical processes, cultural beliefs and practices, environment, and broader political-economic systems. It points to an urgent need for systematic data collection and analysis of health, disease, and demography of Brazil's native peoples. No doubt it will serve as a model for future interdisciplinary scholarship. It promises to be highly relevant to policy formulation and implementation of health care programs among small scale populations in Brazil and elsewhere."
• Laura R. Graham, Professor of Anthropology, The University of Iowa

". . . represents one of the most detailed descriptions available on the history of contact, transition, and acculturation from a biological perspective for an indigenous population of Amazonia . . . a careful documentation of change is really at the core of this work, and history, economic development, dietary and sanitary transitions, and the Brazilian political context are all woven together to create a true 'ecology ' of the Xavante."
• Kim Hill, University of New Mexico, American Journal of Human Biology, September/October 2003

"Reading this book is a pleasure, for its style as well as for the information that the text provides. . . . It is an excellent example of an interdisciplinary collaboration so seamless that the boundaries between different approaches are hardly noticeable. This is obligatory reading."
• Rita B. Barata, Former President of the Brazilian Public Health Association-ABRASCO, Cadernos de Saude Publica, March/April 2003

"Rarely has the linkage between a local population and the larger forces that affect their adaptability been as thoroughly explicated as in this book. The authors bring together sophisticated understanding of indigenous South America, medical anthropology, biological anthropology, and social anthropology within an explicitly political-economic context that makes the local human conditions richer and more complex than if they only had been treated ethnographically, medically, or economically."
• Emilio Moran, Indiana University, From the Series Introduction

Inventário Análitico do Arquivo de Antropologia Física do
Museu Nacional
Ricardo Ventura Santos e Maria Celina Soares de Mello e Silva.
Série Livros, No. 14, Museu Nacional/UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro, 2006.

O “Arquivo de Antropologia Física” reúne documentos de grande importância para a análise da história da antropologia no Brasil, com imbricações com diversas outras áreas do conhecimento. Alberga documentos de cientistas de fundamental importância na trajetória da ciência no Brasil, como Edgard Roquette-Pinto, bem como referentes a questões teóricas de alta relevância em debates científicos contemporâneos (por exemplo, as teorias sobre o povoamento pré-histórico do continente americano). Há outros conjuntos de interesse, como documentos relacionados à Euclides da Cunha e ao Primeiro Congresso Brasileiro de Eugenia (de 1929). Parcela significativa dos documentos do Arquivo são inéditos e, devido à anterior inexistência de inventário e catalogação adequados, bem como precariedade da conservação, estavam disponíveis para consulta de forma muito limitada. Todo o livro está disponível em PDF.