@article{13e02f6ce9174f61a0d4f32c4aef4111,
title = "Physical stature of adult Tsimane' Amerindians, Bolivian Amazon in the 20th century",
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.",
keywords = "Amazon, Amerindians, Anthropometrics, Bolivia, Height, Human capital, Indigenous populations, Nutritional status, Physical stature, Secular trends, Tsimane'",
author = "Godoy, {Ricardo A.} and Leonard, {William R.} and Victoria Reyes-Garc{\'i}a and Elizabeth Goodman and Thomas McDade and Tom{\'a}s Huanca and Susan Tanner and Vincent Vadez",
note = "Funding Information: 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, Jos{\'e} Cari, Esther Conde, Vicente Cuata, Zo{\"e} Foster, Claudio Guallata, Yorema Gutierrez, Dami{\'a}n Ista, Bernab{\'e} 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{\textquoteright} for their continuous support, and reviewers of EHB and John Komlos for many helpful comments on earlier drafts. ",
year = "2006",
month = jun,
doi = "10.1016/j.ehb.2005.11.001",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "4",
pages = "184--205",
journal = "Economics and Human Biology",
issn = "1570-677X",
publisher = "Elsevier",
number = "2",
}
