T Leatherman
Biographic Data
| ID | 2898 |
|---|---|
| NAME | T Leatherman |
| GIVEN NAMES | T |
| FAMILY NAME | Leatherman |
| SIGNATURE | LEATHERMAN T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of South Carolina |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2476-6241 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 218 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Secular Trends in Height and Changes in Anthropometric Measures Among Adult Women in Nuñoa, Peru 1964–2018
Market Integration and Secular Changes in Anthropometric Characteristics in Two Maya Communities From Yucatan, Mexico
OBJECTIVE: To compare the changes in children's height, weight, and BMI from two Maya communities during 1986-2023 in order to analyze if their differences in degrees of participation in market economy are reflected in secular changes in growth measures. MATERIAL AND METHODS: We compared the changes in height, weight, and BMI of 1463 children (6-12 years) from two communities (Dzeal and Yalcoba) differing by speed and degree of market integration…
Secular Changes in Growth in the Maya Village of Yalcoba
OBJECTIVE: To analyze the changes in children's height, weight, BMI and rates of stunting and overweight and obesity over three periods: 1986-1987, 1996-1998, and 2023 for the community of Yalcoba in the Yucatan Peninsula. MATERIAL AND METHODS: Four hundred forty (6-to-15 years) children measured in 2023 were compared with data obtained in 1986-1987 (n = 675) and 1996-1998 (n = 628). Z-scores of height and BMI were calculated to estimate percenta…
Are There Global Syndemics
In this article, we address the nature of syndemics and whether, as some have asserted, these epidemiological phenomena are global configurations. Our argument that syndemics are not global rests on recognition that they are composed of social/environment contexts, disease clusters, demographics, and biologies that vary across locations. These points are illustrated with the cases of syndemics involving COVID-19, diabetes mellitus, and HIV/AIDS. …
Building on the biocultural syntheses
Building a New Biocultural Synthesis: Political Economic Perspectives in Human Biology called for an integration of political economy with ecological and adaptability perspectives in biocultural anthropology. A major goal of this volume was to explore the utility of including political‐economic and sociocultural processes in analyses of human biological variation, nutrition, and health. A second goal was to enhance collaboration among subfields a…
Secular trends in growth in the high‐altitude district of Nuñoa, Peru 1964–2015
OBJECTIVES: Nuñoa, Peru has been the site of anthropological research on human adaptability, growth, and health since the 1960s. Previous studies documented a nascent secular trend in growth between 1964 and 1984. However, no secular trend was evident when the population was re-examined in 1999, following an intervening period of sociopolitical upheaval. Subsequently, the region experienced considerable economic development reflected in secular i…
Bridging Graduate Education in Public Health and the Liberal Arts
The University of Massachusetts Amherst is part of Five-Colleges Inc, a consortium that includes the university and four liberal arts colleges. Consortium faculty from the School of Public Health and Health Sciences at the university and from the colleges are working to bridge liberal arts with public health graduate education. We outline four key themes guiding this effort and exemplary curricular tools for innovative community-based and multidi…
The Reproduction of Poverty and Poor Health in the Production of Health Disparities in Southern Peru
It is a common starting assumption for analyses of health disparities that poverty and poor health occur together and mutually influence one another. While earlier research tended to focus on how poverty leads to poor health, over the past two decades it has become more common to focus on the social and economic costs of illness and disease. Yet, the majority of this research has not employed an ethnographic lens and is limited in accounting for …
Introduction
Changes in stature, weight, and nutritional status with tourism-based economic development in the Yucatan
AAA Awards Exceptional Undergraduate Anthropology Teachers Researchers
Lightfoot Brings Archaeology to Life •Chin Creates Teachable Moments
Coca-colonization of diets in the Yucatan
A Space of Vulnerability in Poverty and Health
In this article I present a political-ecological approach for biocultural analyses that attempts to synthesize perspectives from anthropological political economy and those from ecological anthropology and human adaptability approaches. The approach is used to examine contexts and consequences of vulnerability among Andean peoples in southern Peru, and specifically the ongoing and dialectical relationships between poverty, illness, and household …
Healing soul loss
Why sobreparto? - 1 - Women's work, health, and reproduction in two districts in southern Peru
Human biology and social inequality
Human biology and social inequality
Changing biocultural perspectives on health in the Andes
Expanding the biocultural synthesis toward a biology of poverty
Expanding the biocultural synthesis toward a biology of poverty
A Biocultural Perspective on Health and Household Economy in Southern Peru
This article presents a biocultural approach to human health that integrates perspectives from anthropological political economy, ecology, and human adaptability. This approach frames local conditions in relation to macrohistorical forces, and focuses on the social relations that underlie health and responses to illness. It examines the coping responses of human agents operating with a "conditional rationality," and the multiple consequences to t…
Socioeconomic change and patterns of growth in the Andes
Changes in the pattern of growth over a 20‐year period are described for a combined rural and semi‐urban population in the District of Nunoa (Puno) in the southern Peruvian Andes. Over the past two decades, Andean regions have experienced many socioeconomic changes, including the implementation of agrarian reform policies and increased integration into a market economy. Local changes in Nunoa have included improved transportation networks, new ma…
Health Implications of Changing Agrarian Economies in the Southern Andes
Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Thomas Leatherman; Health Implications of Changing Agrarian Economies in the Southern Andes. Human Organization 1 December 1994; 53 (4): 371–380. doi: https://doi.org/10.17730/humo.53.4.k4m7h137864k534p Download citation file: Ris (Zotero…
On Seeking Common Ground between Medical Ecology and Critical Medical Anthropology
Biocultural synthesis in medical anthropology
Medical anthropology has developed distinct and separate biological and cultural approaches to the study of health and disease in human populations. Within cultural anthropology a major focus has been the ethnomedical perspective that analyzes the process of defining disease and describing the social response to disease. In biological anthropology, an ecological perspective considers the interaction of the population, the insult and the environme…
Contributions of nutrition versus hypoxia to growth in rural Andean populations
Previous research on diet and nutrition among peasant agriculturalists in the Andes has produced inconsistent results. As a consequence it has been difficult to determine the extent to which nutritional factors contribute to the slowed, prolonged growth and resultant small adult body size that is characteristic of these highland populations. The study examines patterns of diet and growth in the rural highland community of Nuñoa, Peru (elevation 4…
Coca-colonization of diets in the Yucatan
Biocultural synthesis in medical anthropology
Medical anthropology has developed distinct and separate biological and cultural approaches to the study of health and disease in human populations. Within cultural anthropology a major focus has been the ethnomedical perspective that analyzes the process of defining disease and describing the social response to disease. In biological anthropology, an ecological perspective considers the interaction of the population, the insult and the environme…
A Space of Vulnerability in Poverty and Health
In this article I present a political-ecological approach for biocultural analyses that attempts to synthesize perspectives from anthropological political economy and those from ecological anthropology and human adaptability approaches. The approach is used to examine contexts and consequences of vulnerability among Andean peoples in southern Peru, and specifically the ongoing and dialectical relationships between poverty, illness, and household …
Socioeconomic change and patterns of growth in the Andes
Changes in the pattern of growth over a 20‐year period are described for a combined rural and semi‐urban population in the District of Nunoa (Puno) in the southern Peruvian Andes. Over the past two decades, Andean regions have experienced many socioeconomic changes, including the implementation of agrarian reform policies and increased integration into a market economy. Local changes in Nunoa have included improved transportation networks, new ma…
A Biocultural Perspective on Health and Household Economy in Southern Peru
This article presents a biocultural approach to human health that integrates perspectives from anthropological political economy, ecology, and human adaptability. This approach frames local conditions in relation to macrohistorical forces, and focuses on the social relations that underlie health and responses to illness. It examines the coping responses of human agents operating with a "conditional rationality," and the multiple consequences to t…
On Seeking Common Ground between Medical Ecology and Critical Medical Anthropology
Secular trends in growth in the high‐altitude district of Nuñoa, Peru 1964–2015
OBJECTIVES: Nuñoa, Peru has been the site of anthropological research on human adaptability, growth, and health since the 1960s. Previous studies documented a nascent secular trend in growth between 1964 and 1984. However, no secular trend was evident when the population was re-examined in 1999, following an intervening period of sociopolitical upheaval. Subsequently, the region experienced considerable economic development reflected in secular i…
Changing biocultural perspectives on health in the Andes
Inuit Youth
The Reproduction of Poverty and Poor Health in the Production of Health Disparities in Southern Peru
It is a common starting assumption for analyses of health disparities that poverty and poor health occur together and mutually influence one another. While earlier research tended to focus on how poverty leads to poor health, over the past two decades it has become more common to focus on the social and economic costs of illness and disease. Yet, the majority of this research has not employed an ethnographic lens and is limited in accounting for …
Introduction
Are There Global Syndemics
In this article, we address the nature of syndemics and whether, as some have asserted, these epidemiological phenomena are global configurations. Our argument that syndemics are not global rests on recognition that they are composed of social/environment contexts, disease clusters, demographics, and biologies that vary across locations. These points are illustrated with the cases of syndemics involving COVID-19, diabetes mellitus, and HIV/AIDS. …
Maximal aerobic power in trained youths at high altitude
The sample for this study consisted of 25 males and 19 females between the ages of 8.8 and 19.5 years. The subjects were healthy, well nourished and trained swimmers residing in La Paz, Bolivia (mean altitude 3700 m). The purpose of this study was to provide normative values for the work capacity of high-altitude youths. Mean VO2 max was 46.9 ml/kg/min in males and 39.3 ml/kg/min in females. VO2max increased significantly with age in males but no…
Anthropometric survey of high-altitude Bolivian porters
This paper presents the results of an anthropometric survey of 138 rural Aymaran high-altitude males who were working as porters in La Paz, Bolivia (3700 m). All subjects were measured for stature, weight, upper arm circumference, and triceps skinfolds. The body size and composition of the porters were then compared to an Aymaran rural population from the Bolivian highlands, and urban mestizo labourers from La Paz. The porters were smaller than t…
Work performance of high-altitude Aymara males
The sample for this study consisted of 28 Aymara males between the ages of 15 and 43 years. The subjects were rural high-altitude natives who were temporarily working as porters in La Paz, Bolivia (3700 m). Mean VO2max was 46 X 5 ml/kg/min. There was a significant negative relationship between VO2max and age in adult porters . However, there was also a significant positive relationship between maximal work output and age and a significant negativ…
Inuit Youth
Contributions of nutrition versus hypoxia to growth in rural Andean populations
Previous research on diet and nutrition among peasant agriculturalists in the Andes has produced inconsistent results. As a consequence it has been difficult to determine the extent to which nutritional factors contribute to the slowed, prolonged growth and resultant small adult body size that is characteristic of these highland populations. The study examines patterns of diet and growth in the rural highland community of Nuñoa, Peru (elevation 4…
Evolution of infectious disease
The evolution of infectious disease can be understood from an ecological model that incorporates information from anthropology, epidemiology, and biomedicine. This model considers variables such as the pathogen, the host population, and the environment. In this model, the role that culture as well as other environmental variables plays in the transmission of infectious disease in human populations is considered. In addition, the sociocultural res…
Biocultural synthesis in medical anthropology
Medical anthropology has developed distinct and separate biological and cultural approaches to the study of health and disease in human populations. Within cultural anthropology a major focus has been the ethnomedical perspective that analyzes the process of defining disease and describing the social response to disease. In biological anthropology, an ecological perspective considers the interaction of the population, the insult and the environme…
On Seeking Common Ground between Medical Ecology and Critical Medical Anthropology
Health Implications of Changing Agrarian Economies in the Southern Andes
Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Thomas Leatherman; Health Implications of Changing Agrarian Economies in the Southern Andes. Human Organization 1 December 1994; 53 (4): 371–380. doi: https://doi.org/10.17730/humo.53.4.k4m7h137864k534p Download citation file: Ris (Zotero…
Socioeconomic change and patterns of growth in the Andes
Changes in the pattern of growth over a 20‐year period are described for a combined rural and semi‐urban population in the District of Nunoa (Puno) in the southern Peruvian Andes. Over the past two decades, Andean regions have experienced many socioeconomic changes, including the implementation of agrarian reform policies and increased integration into a market economy. Local changes in Nunoa have included improved transportation networks, new ma…
A Biocultural Perspective on Health and Household Economy in Southern Peru
This article presents a biocultural approach to human health that integrates perspectives from anthropological political economy, ecology, and human adaptability. This approach frames local conditions in relation to macrohistorical forces, and focuses on the social relations that underlie health and responses to illness. It examines the coping responses of human agents operating with a "conditional rationality," and the multiple consequences to t…
Expanding the biocultural synthesis toward a biology of poverty
Expanding the biocultural synthesis toward a biology of poverty
Changing biocultural perspectives on health in the Andes
Human biology and social inequality
Human biology and social inequality
Healing soul loss
Why sobreparto? - 1 - Women's work, health, and reproduction in two districts in southern Peru
Coca-colonization of diets in the Yucatan
A Space of Vulnerability in Poverty and Health
In this article I present a political-ecological approach for biocultural analyses that attempts to synthesize perspectives from anthropological political economy and those from ecological anthropology and human adaptability approaches. The approach is used to examine contexts and consequences of vulnerability among Andean peoples in southern Peru, and specifically the ongoing and dialectical relationships between poverty, illness, and household …
AAA Awards Exceptional Undergraduate Anthropology Teachers Researchers
Lightfoot Brings Archaeology to Life •Chin Creates Teachable Moments
Changes in stature, weight, and nutritional status with tourism-based economic development in the Yucatan
The Reproduction of Poverty and Poor Health in the Production of Health Disparities in Southern Peru
It is a common starting assumption for analyses of health disparities that poverty and poor health occur together and mutually influence one another. While earlier research tended to focus on how poverty leads to poor health, over the past two decades it has become more common to focus on the social and economic costs of illness and disease. Yet, the majority of this research has not employed an ethnographic lens and is limited in accounting for …
Introduction
Bridging Graduate Education in Public Health and the Liberal Arts
The University of Massachusetts Amherst is part of Five-Colleges Inc, a consortium that includes the university and four liberal arts colleges. Consortium faculty from the School of Public Health and Health Sciences at the university and from the colleges are working to bridge liberal arts with public health graduate education. We outline four key themes guiding this effort and exemplary curricular tools for innovative community-based and multidi…
Secular trends in growth in the high‐altitude district of Nuñoa, Peru 1964–2015
OBJECTIVES: Nuñoa, Peru has been the site of anthropological research on human adaptability, growth, and health since the 1960s. Previous studies documented a nascent secular trend in growth between 1964 and 1984. However, no secular trend was evident when the population was re-examined in 1999, following an intervening period of sociopolitical upheaval. Subsequently, the region experienced considerable economic development reflected in secular i…
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