Overview
Shows how social, political, economic, cultural and environmental changes affect human health over time
Adopts a human ecology approach to analyze the interactions between natural environment, human biology, health and social issues in the Yucatan Peninsula since the Classic Maya Period
Will be of interest to social and life scientists from fields such as anthropology, human biology and environmental health, as well as to public health researchers and practitioners
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Living Conditions and Human Biology
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Human Ecology from a Bioarchaeological Perspective
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Environment and Health
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About this book
This book adopts a human ecology approach to present an overview of the biological responses to social, political, economic, cultural and environmental changes that affected human populations in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico, since the Classic Maya Period. Human bodies express social relations, and we can read these relations by analyzing biological tissues or systems, and by measuring certain phenotypical traits at the population level. Departing from this theoretical premise, the contributors to this volume analyze the interactions between ecosystems, sociocultural systems and human biology in a specific geographic region to show how changes in sociocultural and natural environment affect the health of a population over time.
This edited volume brings together contributions from a range of different scientific disciplines – such as biological anthropology, bioarchaeology, human biology, nutrition, epidemiology, ecotoxicology, political economy, sociology and ecology – that analyze the interactions between culture, environment and health in different domains of human life, such as:
- The political ecology of food, nutrition and health
- Impacts of social and economic changes in children’s diet and women’s fertility
- Biological consequences of social vulnerability in urban areas
- Impacts of toxic contamination of natural resources on human health
- Ecological and sociocultural determinants of infectious diseases
Culture, Environment and Health in the Yucatan Peninsula – A Human Ecology Perspective will be of interest to researchers from the social, health and life sciences dedicated to the study of the interactions between natural environments, human biology, health and social issues, especially in fields such as biological and sociocultural anthropology, health promotion and environmental health. It will also be a useful tool to health professionals and public agents responsible for designing and applying public health policies in contexts of social vulnerability.
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Federico Dickinson is a Mexican biological anthropologist and human ecologist with a Sc.D. from the Polish Academy of Sciences. Dr. Dickinson is the founder of the Department of Human Ecology at the Center for Research and Advanced Studies of the National Polytechnic Institute in Merida, Mexico (Cinvestav-Merida), where he has developed his research lines on human growth in the last 33 years.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Culture, Environment and Health in the Yucatan Peninsula
Book Subtitle: A Human Ecology Perspective
Editors: Hugo Azcorra, Federico Dickinson
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27001-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-27000-1Published: 19 December 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-27003-2Published: 17 January 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-27001-8Published: 11 December 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 336
Number of Illustrations: 23 b/w illustrations, 25 illustrations in colour
Topics: Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, Biological and Physical Anthropology, Environmental Health