Culture, environment and health in the Yucatan Peninsula : a human ecology perspective / Hugo Azcorra, Federico Dickinson, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Azcorra, Hugo, editor.

Dickinson, Federico, editor.

ProQuest ebook central.

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human ecology--Yucatán Peninsula.

Human ecology.

Human beings--Effect of environment on.

Human beings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (337 pages)

Place of Publication:

[Cham, Switzerland] : Springer, [2020]

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Introduction

The thin broken line. History, society, and the environment on the Yucatan Peninsula

Globalization and children's diets: The case of Yucatan, Mexico

Growth stunting and low height-for-age in the Yucatan Peninsula

The urban Maya from Yucatan; dealing with the biological burden of the past and a degenerative present

A critical biocultural perspective on tourism and the nutrition transition in the Yucatan

Effect of salaried work in cities and commercial agriculture on natural fertility in rural Maya women from the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico

Association between early developmental stress, as evidenced by linear enamel hypoplasias (LEHs), and body composition during adolescence in agricultural populations with different access to store foods and gendered activity patterns

Hydration, lactation, and child health outcomes in Yucatec Maya

Patterns of activity and somatic symptoms among urban and rural women at midlife in the state of Campeche, Mexico

Environmental and cultural stressors in the coastal northern Maya lowlands in pre-Hispanic times

History of health and life of pre-hispanic Maya through their skeletal remains

Crossing the threshold of modern life. Comparing disease patterns between two documented urban cemetery series from the city of Merida, Yucatan, Mexico

Health and wellbeing in the Yucatan Peninsula revisited with a human ecology perspective

Hair mercury content in an adult population of Merida, Yucatan Mexico as a function of anthropometric measures and seafood consumption

Tackling exposure to Chagas Disease in the Yucatan from a human ecology perspective

Conclusions.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based upon print version of record.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Other Format:

Print version: Azcorra, Hugo Culture, Environment and Health in the Yucatan Peninsula : A Human Ecology Perspective

ISBN:

9783030270018

3030270017

Publisher Number:

99984336609

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