A5026444055- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Child Nutrition and Water Access
- Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
- Economic and Environmental Valuation
- Income, Poverty, and Inequality
- Culture, Economy, and Development Studies
- Indigenous Health and Education
- Multilingual Education and Policy
- Agricultural Innovations and Practices
- Health disparities and outcomes
- Birth, Development, and Health
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Agricultural risk and resilience
- Mining and Resource Management
- Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
- Anthropological Studies and Insights
- Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory
- Second Language Learning and Teaching
- Migration and Labor Dynamics
- Neuroscience and Music Perception
- Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
- Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations
- Agriculture and Rural Development Research
- African Botany and Ecology Studies
- Indigenous Cultures and History
Brandeis University
2013-2024
Complejo Hospitalario Universitario de Albacete
2017-2023
The University of Texas at El Paso
2023
University of Chile
2023
International Paper (United States)
2021
Northwestern University
2021
Dartmouth College
2021
National Bureau of Economic Research
2021
ORCID
2020
Faculdade de Odontologia do Recife
2020
Abstract Music is present in every known society but varies from place to place. What, if anything, universal music cognition? We measured a signature of mental representations rhythm 39 participant groups 15 countries, spanning urban societies and Indigenous populations. Listeners reproduced random ‘seed’ rhythms; their reproductions were fed back as the stimulus (as game ‘telephone’), such that biases (the prior) could be estimated distribution reproductions. Every tested group showed...
Assessing the effects of markets on well-being indigenous peoples and their conservation natural resources matters to identify public policies improve enhance test hypotheses about sociocultural change. We review studies how market economies affect subsistence, health, nutritional status, social capital, traditional ecological knowledge use renewable resources. Market exposure produces mixed conservation. Unclear arise from small sample size observations; reliance cross-sectional data or...
Abstract: Unsustainable hunting of wildlife for food is often a more immediate and significant threat to the conservation biological diversity in tropical forests than deforestation. Why people eat debated. Some may bushmeat because they can afford it; others it familiar, traditional, confers prestige, tastes good, or adds variety. We completed survey 1208 rural urban households Gabon, Africa, 2002–2003 estimate effect wealth prices on consumption other sources animal protein. Consumption...
Abstract: Consumption of bushmeat is an important component household economies in most tropical forested regions the world and resulting unsustainable levels hunting, even relatively isolated regions. We conducted standardized surveys consumption, income, wealth, education level among Amerindian societies Central South America. Results suggest 1) demand for may follow inverted ∪ pattern with 2) consumers, particularly well‐off, reduce their consumption as price increases; 3) a small...
Abstract Music perception is plausibly constrained by universal perceptual mechanisms adapted to natural sounds. Such constraints could arise from our dependence on harmonic frequency spectra for segregating concurrent sounds, but evidence has been circumstantial. We measured the extent which musical notes are misperceived as a single sound, testing Westerners well native Amazonians with limited exposure Western music. Both groups were more likely mistake note combinations related simple...
Infrastructures are material forms that allow for the possibility of exchange over space. They physical networks through which goods, ideas, waste, power, people, and finance trafficked. In this article I trace range anthropological ...Read More
Abstract Over the last decades, native Amazonians have put increasing pressure on animal wildlife owing to growth in demand. Across societies, household monetary income and wealth shape food consumption; hence, so it is natural ask what effect might these variables demand for consumption among Amazonians, particularly as they gain a stronger foothold market economy de jure stewardship over their territories. Prior estimates of effects relied cross‐sectional data produced unclear results. The...
The authors examined the generalizability of first impressions from faces previously documented in industrialized cultures to Tsimane’ people remote Bolivian rainforest. as well U.S. judges showed within-culture agreement attractiveness, babyfaceness, and traits (healthy, intelligent/knowledgeable, dominant/respected, sociable/warm) own-culture faces. Both groups also for other-culture faces, although it was weaker than particularly among judges. Moreover, there between-culture agreement,...
A survey of 209 Chimane Amerindian households in 18 villages the Bolivian rain forest was done to examine role tenure security and private time preference on clearance old-growth forest. Results Tobit regressions suggest that conflict with abutters associated more deforestation, but average impatience household heads less deforestation. governments should protect land rights indigenous people if they wish enhance conservation. cast doubts idea high increases depletion natural resources.
Abstract This study examines patterns of growth and nutritional status indigenous Tsimane' children under 9 years age (n = 199 boys 210 girls), based on a cross‐sectional sample from 58 villages the Beni Deparment lowland Bolivia. Compared with US children, are quite short, linear tracking at or below 5th centile in both sexes. The prevalence low height‐for‐age (“stunting;” HA Z‐scores ≤−2) is 52% 43% girls. In contrast, weight‐for‐height approximates median, (“wasting”; WH being only 4% 6%...
Abstract Infectious disease is a major global determinant of child morbidity and mortality, energetic investment in immune defenses (even the absence overt disease) an important life‐history variable, with implications for human growth development. This study uses biomarker activation (C‐reactive protein) to investigate aspect health among Tsimane', relatively isolated Amerindian population lowland Bolivia. Our objectives are twofold: 1) describe distribution CRP by age gender...
Abstract Infectious disease, such as diarrheal respiratory infections, and parasitic are an important source of nutritional energetic stress in many populations. Inspired by the research methodological innovations A. Roberto Frisancho, this work considers impact childhood environment local disease ecology on child health patterns among indigenous group lowland Bolivia. Specifically, we examine association between soil‐transmitted helminth infection, especially hookworm species,...
Anthropologists, conservation biologists, and psychologists have generally found a long-term (secular) decline of ethnobotanical knowledge among indigenous people. To estimate such loss, researchers typically relied on single cross-sectional data set to (a) measure people different ages, (b) compare measures between (c) infer loss if the old knew more than young. We improve approach by simultaneously controlling for cohort effects age effects—the first refers effect birth period second life...