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The Aymara : strategies in human adaptation to a rigorous environment / edited by William J. Schull and Francisco Rothhammer ; with collaborating editor, Sara A. Barton.

Title
The Aymara : strategies in human adaptation to a rigorous environment / edited by William J. Schull and Francisco Rothhammer ; with collaborating editor, Sara A. Barton.
Publication
Dordrecht, Netherlands ; Boston : Kluwer Academic, c1990.

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Additional Authors
  • Barton, Sara A.
  • Rothhammer, Francisco.
  • Schull, William J.
Description
xiv, 261 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
Series Statement
Studies in human biology ; v. 2
Uniform Title
Studies in human biology v. 2.
Subject
  • Adaptation, Physiological
  • Altitude
  • Altitude, Influence of > Andes Region
  • Altitude, Influence of
  • Anoxemia > Andes Region
  • Anoxemia
  • Anthropometry
  • Aymara Indians > Anthropometry
  • Aymara Indians > Health and hygiene
  • Hypoxia
  • Indians, South American
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-242) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Flora and fauna / Angel E. Spotorno and Alberto Veloso -- Trace metals / William J. Schull [and others] -- The Aymará / Francisco Rothhammer -- Paleopathology / Marvin J. Allison -- Nutritional characteristics of the Aymará of northern Chile / Sara A. Barton [and others] -- The Chilean Aymará and their reproductive patterns / William J. Schull, Robert E. Ferrell and Sara A. Barton -- Ecologic determinants of the health of Aymará children / Judith McFarlane -- Disease and disability among the Aymará / Biffret Díaz [and others] -- Heterozygosity and physical growth in an Andean population / William H. Mueller, Patricia Soto-Heim and Victoria Schull -- Hearing and hypoxia among the Aymará / Julia K. Bailey and Betsy Weidman -- Altitude and cardiopulmonary relationships / William H. Weidman, Sara A. Barton and Vivian Lunny Lenart -- Oral characteristics of the Aymará / Hernán Palomino -- Intratribal genetic differentiation as assessed through electrophoresis / Francisco Rothhammer, Ranajit Chakraborty and Robert E. Ferrell -- Ethnogenesis and affinities to other South American aboriginal populations / Francisco Rothhammer.
ISBN
0792309693 (acid free paper)
LCCN
^^^90005335^
OCLC
22421281
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library