R Godoy

Biographic Data

ID2427
NAMER Godoy
GIVEN NAMESR
FAMILY NAMEGodoy
SIGNATUREGODOY R
AFFILIATIONSBrandeis University
ORCID0000-0003-0121-6949
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS44
TOTAL CITATIONS255
AUTHOR COUNT44
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1983
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX10

  • Preferences for consonance are evident in Indigenous Amazonians with higher, but not lower, levels of global integration

    Open AccessMervyl J Mcpherson, Malinda J McPherson-McNato et al.ARTICLECognition2026

    It is unclear how elementary musical preferences are shaped by experience, in part due to the difficulty of measuring the presumptively relevant aspects of human experience. Previous work with an indigenous small-scale society in the Bolivian Amazon - Tsimane' - has failed to find evidence of the preference for canonically consonant to dissonant music intervals that is widespread in Western listeners. Leveraging changing conditions in the Amazon,…

  • Commonfield Agriculture

    Bruce M S Campbell, Bruce Campbell et al.CHAPTERField Systems and Farming Systems…2023

    Commonfield agriculture is one of the most distinctive and intriguing manifestations of common-property resource management. The precise nature of these arrangements depended upon environmental, technological, demographic, and sociopolitical circumstances, which is why England, for example, contained so many different types of commonfield systems. Environmentally, too, there was a vast difference in the circumstances under which these two commonf…

  • Empresarios, minas y campesinos

    Open AccessR Godoy, Ricardo A GodoyARTICLEAllpanchis2020

    The most distinguished anthropological studies on risk have a common characteristic: peasant agriculture. Anthropologists delight in pointing to the "institutional context" (Wolf 1969; XV) and the farming techniques used by peasants to reduce the chances of crop failure and market uncertainties. A partial list of such techniques includes: inter-row planting, plot dispersal, and planting of different species or varieties of the same crop. Social m…

  • Market Engagement and Indigenous People

    Jonathan Bauchet, Eduardo A Undurraga et al.ARTICLEJournal of Anthropological Research2020Cited by: 1References: 28

    Autarkic indigenous societies are changing fast from increased engagement with markets. Western writers have ascribed a wide array of often contradictory effects to markets, including greater sociability, increased consumption of temptation goods, greater industriousness, and lower adherence to local beliefs. We test the four hypotheses using data from Tsimane', a native Amazonian society in Bolivia. 500 participants aged ≥16y were tracked annual…

  • Child stunting is associated with weaker human capital among native Amazonians

    Open AccessEduardo A Undurraga, Jere R Behrman et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Human Biology2018

    OBJECTIVES: We assessed associations between child stunting, recovery, and faltering with schooling and human capital skills in a native Amazonian society of horticulturalists-foragers (Tsimane'). METHODS: We used cross-sectional data (2008) from 1262 children aged 6 to 16 years in 53 villages to assess contemporaneous associations between three height categories: stunted (height-for-age Z score, HAZ -1), and three categories of human capital: co…

  • Birth seasons and heights among girls and boys below 12 years of age

    Open AccessMarek Brabec, Jere R Behrman et al.ARTICLEAnnals of Human Biology2018

    The results suggest that redressing stunting will require attention to conditions in utero, infancy and late childhood

  • Conditional cash transfers for primary education

    Open AccessJonathan Bauchet, Eduardo A Undurraga et al.ARTICLEWorld Development2018Cited by: 5References: 11

    Conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs to increase primary-school enrollment and attendance among low-income households have been shown to benefit children and households, but to date little is known about who joins such programs. We test three hypotheses about predictors of CCT program participation in indigenous societies in Bolivia, focusing on attributes of the household (ethnicity), parents (modern human capital), and children (age, sex). …

  • Individual health and the visibility of village economic inequality

    Open AccessEduardo A Undurraga, Veronica Nica et al.ARTICLEEconomics & Human Biology2016

  • Catch-up growth and growth deficits

    Open AccessRebecca Zhang, Eduardo A Undurraga et al.ARTICLEAnnals of Human Biology2016

    The prevalence of growth faltering among the Tsimane' has declined, but hurdles still substantially lock children into height categories

  • The effects of community income inequality on health

    Open AccessEduardo A Undurraga, Jere R Behrman et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2016Cited by: 5References: 29

  • Savings at the Periphery of Markets

    Eduardo A Undurraga, A Zycherman et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Development Studies2014

    We used survey and ethnographic data to study savings in a highly autarkic society of native Amazonians in Bolivia (Tsimane’). We equated savings with the amount of maize and rice in storage, area planted with plantains and manioc, and number of edible domesticated animals owned by a household or an adult. We found no large inter-annual change in savings possibly due to low income, impulsivity and a bundle of institutions and norms, such as borro…

  • Diurnal cortisol rhythms and child growth

    Open AccessColleen Nyberg, Colleen H Nyberg et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Human Biology2012

    OBJECTIVE: Although psychosocial stress has also been implicated as a contributor to growth failure by imposing energetic constraints during development, the direct physiological pathways by which these life history trade-offs are imposed are not well understood. This study explores associations between diurnal cortisol rhythms and differential patterns of linear child growth among the Tsimane, a horticulturalist and foraging society in the Boliv…

  • Influence of helminth infections on childhood nutritional status in lowland Bolivia

    Open AccessTanner, S Tanner et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Human Biology2009

    Infectious disease, such as diarrheal disease, respiratory infections, and parasitic infections, are an important source of nutritional and energetic stress in many populations. Inspired by the research and methodological innovations of A. Roberto Frisancho, this work considers the impact of childhood environment and local disease ecology on child health and nutritional patterns among an indigenous group in lowland Bolivia. Specifically, we exami…

  • The Pay-Offs to Sociability

    Open AccessTaps Bolivian Study Team, Reyes‐garcía et al.ARTICLEHuman Nature2009Cited by: 6References: 43

  • Rain, temperature, and child–adolescent height among Native Amazonians in Bolivia

    Open AccessR Godoy, Elizabeth Goodman et al.ARTICLEAnnals of Human Biology2008

    The height of young females and males is well protected from climate events, but protection works less well for boys ages 2-12

  • Signaling by consumption in a native Amazonian society☆

    Open AccessR Godoy, V REYESGARCIA et al.ARTICLEEvolution and Human Behavior2007

  • On the accuracy of perceived parental height in a native Amazonian society

    Open AccessAnkur M Patel, R Godoy et al.ARTICLEEconomics & Human Biology2006

  • Adult male height in an American colony

    Open AccessR Godoy, Ricardo A Godoy et al.ARTICLEEconomics & Human Biology2006

  • Does village inequality in modern income harm the psyche? Anger, fear, sadness, and alcohol consumption in a pre-industrial society

    Open AccessR Godoy, Ricardo A Godoy et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2006Cited by: 15References: 43

  • Nutritional status and spousal empowerment among native Amazonians

    Open AccessR Godoy, Ricardo A Godoy et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2006Cited by: 10References: 27

  • Anthropometric variability in the USA

    Open AccessR Godoy, Elizabeth Goodman et al.ARTICLEAnnals of Human Biology2005

    Since anthropometric indices correlate reliably with canonical indicators of well-being (e.g. income), growing variability in anthropometric indices, particularly among the Blacks and the poor, signals growing inequality in quality of life--a worrisome trend

  • Physical growth and nutritional status of Tsimane' Amerindian children of lowland Bolivia

    Open AccessZoë Foster, Elizabeth Byron et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Physical…2005Cited by: 34References: 23

    This study examines patterns of growth and nutritional status of indigenous Tsimane' children under 9 years of age (n = 199 boys and 210 girls), based on a cross‐sectional sample from 58 villages from the Beni Deparment of lowland Bolivia. Compared with US children, Tsimane' children are quite short, with linear growth tracking at or below the US 5th centile in both sexes. The prevalence of low height‐for‐age (“stunting;” HA Z‐scores ≤−2) is 52% …

  • Predictors of C‐reactive protein in Tsimane' 2 to 15 year‐olds in lowland Bolivia

    Open AccessT W Mcdade, W R Leonard et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Physical…2005Cited by: 27References: 31

    Infectious disease is a major global determinant of child morbidity and mortality, and energetic investment in immune defenses (even in the absence of overt disease) is an important life‐history variable, with implications for human growth and development. This study uses a biomarker of immune activation (C‐reactive protein) to investigate an important aspect of child health among the Tsimane', a relatively isolated Amerindian population in lowla…

  • Physical stature of adult Tsimane’ Amerindians, Bolivian Amazon in the 20th century

    Open AccessR Godoy, Ricardo A Godoy et al.ARTICLEEconomics & Human Biology2005Cited by: 22References: 15

  • W. M. Loker, Changing Places

    Craig Seyfried, R Godoy