Forensic anthropology, sport and identification

Applied physical anthropology is measurement in the service of sport, medicine, identification and the state — name the use and the harm.

• Sports: phenotype plus training; Morehouse–Rasch body-type matching is a classification peg, not fate.
• Aviation and defence: pressure suits, cockpit reach, vest and night-vision sizing.
• Genotypic tools (stem cells, CAR-T) vs phenotypic (prosthetics, diet, Accessible India) — ethics first.
• Public-health genetics is not Galton’s eugenics; say the difference.
• Educational anthropology: culturally fit schooling — Haimendorf’s teacher training and Gond dictionary work as teaching cases.
• Corporate anthropology: products and workplaces designed with ethnography, not only surveys.

• Sex: pelvis first (subpubic angle, inlet). Skull second.
• Age: tooth eruption; epiphyseal fusion (femur head about 19–20 years; third molar 17–21).
• DNA / HLA for disaster identification.
• Facial approximation and photo–skull superimposition in disputed-identity cases.

• Orin Starn on Tiger Woods: race, celebrity, global capital — sport is not only oxygen uptake.
• Sachindra Narayan (1995): Munda phodi hockey — bamboo-root stick, later redesigned; indigenous knowledge in material culture.
• Hoberman on doping: commercialisation and ethics.