Physical stature of adult Tsimane' Amerindians, Bolivian Amazon in the 20th century

Ricardo A. Godoy; William R. Leonard; Victoria Reyes-García; Elizabeth Goodman; Thomas McDade; Tomás Huanca; Susan Tanner; Vincent Vadez

doi:10.1016/j.ehb.2005.11.001

Physical stature of adult Tsimane' Amerindians, Bolivian Amazon in the 20th century

Ricardo A. Godoy^*, William R. Leonard, Victoria Reyes-García, Elizabeth Goodman, Thomas McDade, Tomás Huanca, Susan Tanner, Vincent Vadez

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Abstract

We examine the association between exposure to the market and Western society on the height of adult Tsimane', a foraging-farming society in the Bolivian Amazon. As with other contemporary native peoples, we find little evidence of a significant secular change in height during 1920-1980. Female height bore a positive association with own schooling and fluency in spoken Spanish and with maternal modern human capital (schooling, writing ability, and fluency in spoken Spanish), but male heights bore no association with parental height or with modern human capital. The absence of a secular change likely reflects the persistence of traditional forms of social organization and production that protect health.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	184-205
Number of pages	22
Journal	Economics and Human Biology
Volume	4
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ehb.2005.11.001
State	Published - Jun 2006

Funding

Grants from the programs of Cultural and Biological Anthropology of the National Science Foundation (0078801, 0134225, 0200767, 9731240, 9904318, and 0322380), a grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and a grant from the Conservation, Food and Health Foundation paid for this research. Thanks go to the following people who helped collect data and provided logistical support: Mario Alvarado, Nestor Canchi, Santiago Cari, José Cari, Esther Conde, Vicente Cuata, Zoë Foster, Claudio Guallata, Yorema Gutierrez, Damián Ista, Bernabé Nate, Alonzo Nate, Paulino Pache, Daniel Pache, Javier Pache, Lorgio Pache, Manuel Roca, Brian Sandstrom, Evaristo Tayo, and Anna Yakhedts. We would like to thank the Gran Consejo Tsimane’ for their continuous support, and reviewers of EHB and John Komlos for many helpful comments on earlier drafts.

Keywords

Amazon
Amerindians
Anthropometrics
Bolivia
Height
Human capital
Indigenous populations
Nutritional status
Physical stature
Secular trends
Tsimane'

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Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous)

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