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Individual health and the visibility of village economic inequality: longitudinal evidence from native Amazonians in Bolivia
(2016)
Mounting evidence suggests that income inequality is associated with worse individual health. But does the visibility of inequality matter? Using data from a horticultural-foraging society of native Amazonians in Bolivia ...
Indifference to dissonance in native Amazonians reveals cultural variation in music perception
(2016)
Music is present in every culture, but the degree to which it is shaped by biology remains debated. One widely discussed phenomenon is that some combinations of notes are perceived by Westerners as pleasant, or consonant, ...
The nominalization as primary strategy of relativization in the Amazonian native languages
(Univ Wisconsin Press, 2012-06-01)
Variations in Human Herpesvirus Type 8 Seroprevalence in Native Americans, South America
(CENTERS DISEASE CONTROL, 2010)
To determine the epidemiology of human herpesvirus type 8 (HHV-8) among non-Amazonian native populations, we conducted a cross-sectional study in Brazil, Bolivia, and Paraguay. Our data show striking ethnic and geographic ...
Catch-up growth and growth deficits: Nine-year annual panel child growth data for native Amazonians in Bolivia.
(2017)
Background: Childhood growth stunting is negatively associated with cognitive and health outcomes, and is claimed to be irreversible after age 2. Aim: To estimate growth rates for children aged 2–7 who were stunted (sex-age ...