Journal
ECONOMICS & HUMAN BIOLOGY
Volume 3, Issue 1, Pages 136-159Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.ehb.2005.01.001
Keywords
Anthropometrics; Wealth; Human capital; Nutritional status; Tsimane'; Income inequality; Bolivia; Amazon; Indigenous populations; Height; Physical stature; Amerindians; Latin America
Funding
- National Science Foundation [SBR-9731240, SBR-9904318]
- World Bank as part of the World Bank-Netherlands
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We analyze anthropometric variables of a society of forager-horticulturalists in the Bolivian Amazon (Tsimane') in 2001-2002. Community variables (e.g., inequality, social capital) explain little of the variance in anthropometric indices of nutritional status, but individual-level variables (schooling, wealth) are positively correlated with nutritional status. Dietary quality (foods high in animal proteins), access to foraging technology, and traditional knowledge of medicinal plants are related to better anthropometric indices. (C) 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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