Reyes‐garcía
Biographic Data
| ID | 90992 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Reyes‐garcía |
| FAMILY NAME | Reyes‐garcía |
| SIGNATURE | GARCIA R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2914-8055 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 225 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1942 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 225 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 25 |
Cattle
Conservation efforts over the past century have often overlooked how human activities shape biodiversity, both positively and negatively. Biocultural approaches now seek to integrate cultural dimensions into conservation, with the concept of cultural keystone species offering a path to more equitable strategies. This study focuses on Bosco Gurin, a Walser village in the Swiss Alps, examining human-species relationships over time. Interviews and h…
Adult temporal mobility (2002-2010) in material wealth and physical health, self-perceived health, sociality, and use of addictive substances
Changes in relative socioeconomic rank during adulthood (intragenerational mobility) are increasingly recognized as important determinants of health and other well-being indicators. Quantitative studies in high-income countries find that mobility in rank generally correlates with these outcomes, but the direction and mechanisms remain unclear. Evidence from small-scale societies is scarcer due to limited panel data. We examine the correlation bet…
Knowing and unknowing transformative change
Calls for transformative change towards a just and sustainable world often discuss the role of paradigms and knowledge systems as levers for transformation. Yet, current knowledge practices can also obstruct transformation since research priorities reflect dominant interests in science, economy and society and dominant paradigms and knowledge systems, and marginalise alternative forms of knowledge. This situation posed a challenge for the Transfo…
Experienced climate change impacts help explain subjective well‐being—Evidence from 14 nature‐dependent communities
Climate change profoundly affects well‐being in complex and interconnected ways. However, the relationship between climate change and well‐being has been explored in only a handful of settings, most of which are industrialized. Here, we investigate the association between perceived climate change impacts, their severity and subjective well‐being (measured as life satisfaction) using cross‐culturally comparable first‐hand reports from 2488 partici…
Long panel studies of small-scale rural societies in the Global South
Many topics in the behavioral sciences and epidemiology require researchers to directly observe entities (e.g., individuals, households) over a long time to identify lasting effects. Long-term panel data collection is more common in high-income countries than in small-scale rural societies (SSRS) of low-income countries. SSRS are mobile, nature-dependent, linguistic minorities, and highly autarkic. Analyzing such data using a life-course perspect…
Resilience of Indigenous healthcare systems
Indigenous Peoples rely on biodiversity and traditional knowledge for health and well‐being, yet biological and cultural systems are threatened by ecological and social changes. Limited understanding exists on the factors that support the resilience of Indigenous Peoples' healthcare systems—the capacity of a healthcare system to adapt to disturbances while continuing to provide appropriate health services. This study explores how medicinal plants…
Supporting researchers’ engagement in international science–policy bodies
Exploring the dynamic functions of pastoral traditional knowledge
Pastoral traditional knowledge is increasingly recognized for its inherent adaptability in addressing contemporary challenges and increasing the resilience of pastoral communities. To deepen our understanding of how this knowledge system demonstrates adaptive characteristics, we employ a functional lens to examine its dynamic nature in this systematic review. Our analysis, based on insights from 152 case studies worldwide, shows that this knowled…
The costs of subsidies and externalities of economic activities driving nature decline
Economic sectors that drive nature decline are heavily subsidized and produce large environmental externalities. Calls are increasing to reform or eliminate subsidies and internalize the environmental costs of these sectors. We compile data on subsidies and externalities across six sectors driving biodiversity loss—agriculture, fossil fuels, forestry, infrastructure, fisheries and aquaculture, and mining. The most updated estimates suggest that s…
Crop diversity trends captured by Indigenous and local knowledge
Economic convergence, intragenerational economic mobility, and inequality in a native Amazonian small-scale society of Indigenous People in Bolivia
Adult intragenerational rank mobility matters for quality of life. • There are no quantitative studies of intragenerational mobility in small-scale societies. • Mobility study of Tsimane’ Indigenous People in Bolivia starts to fill the gap. • Like developed economies, pockets of rank immobility appear at the top. • But there was also more rank mobility & the bottom (especially men) converged fast. Adult intragenerational mobility reflects society…
Exploring Socio-Ecological Change at Multiple Temporal Scales in the Bas-Ogooué Ramsar Site, Gabon
Crop biocultural traits and diversity dynamics among Bassari farmers
Cultural and ecological dimensions of agriculture are often considered as contrasting in agricultural research. This is well reflected on approaches to variety evaluation and selection that privilege a narrow set of agronomic indicators that do not account for the complexity of farmer-crop interactions. In this work, we explore the concept of ‘crop biocultural traits’ to integrate the social and biological dimensions of crops and the entanglement…
Landraces and climate change
Transforming the economic landscape for global sustainability
The economic system’s interdependent relationship with nature is fraught with contradictions. While over half of global GDP moderately or highly depends on nature and subsidies to sectors driving nature’s decline, e.g., agriculture, fossil fuels, forestry, amount to trillions of dollars annually, funding for biodiversity conservation and restoration remains woefully inadequate. Bridging the biodiversity funding gap is crucial but alone does not e…
Adult knowledge of wild plants associated with limited delayed health and nutritional benefits for children or adults in the face of external change
Cross-sectional studies suggest that local ecological knowledge (LEK) helps humans cope with their environment. Among the forms of LEK, adult knowledge of wild plants has been associated with better child and adult health. We assess if the concurrent links between i) LEK and ii) health and nutritional status last and examine if LEK yields delayed benefits when societies face large socioeconomic and environmental changes. We use a yearly panel (20…
How do young identify plants? Using the drawing method to explore early ethnobotanical knowledge in Madagascar
In small‐scale societies, people learn to identify plant species during childhood. Plant recognition is an important baseline knowledge, immediately useful to avoid intoxication risk due to wrong identification. Plant recognition is the basis of other ethnobotanical knowledge essential for safeguarding biocultural diversity. However, despite many studies on folk classification, we still have a narrow understanding of the criteria locally used for…
Weaving scientific and local knowledge on climate change impacts in coastal Kenya, Western Indian Ocean
Climate change poses severe threats to coastal social-ecological systems (SES) worldwide. Recent calls recognize the importance of including Indigenous and local knowledge (ILK) in research on climate change impacts. Yet studies that have attempted to weave ILK and scientific knowledge have seldom considered the gendered nature of climate change impacts. Building on the literature on gender and climate change and knowledge pluralism, this study c…
Changes in adult well-being and economic inequalities
Knowing what happens over time to the lifeways of people in contemporary small-scale non-industrial societies of the rural Global South matters because it helps assess changes in the quality of life of underrepresented groups. It has been hard to answer the question because longitudinal information is rarely collected in such settings. A longitudinal dataset of nine years (2002–2010) from a horticultural-foraging society of Indigenous People in t…
Respuestas prácticas a barreras políticas. Factores que limitan la adaptación transformadora al cambio climático en Lonquimay, Chile
Recent studies show that Indigenous Peoples can contribute to transformative adaptation -the reduction of long-term vulnerability by profound and system-wide changes of the factors and paradigms that construct it.However, the factors that constrain communities' actions, and thus their contributions to such transformation, have yet to be addressed in depth.This article analyses the transformative potential of local adaptations to climate change in…
As Proficient as Adults
In drylands, where resources are scarce, wild edible plant (WEP) knowledge is crucial to overcome food scarcity. Understanding the distribution pattern of local ecological knowledge (LEK) about WEP and identifying knowledge holders are key steps to assessing the resilience and vulnerability of knowledge systems. However, little is known about how WEP knowledge is distributed across life stages and gender of people living in arid regions. Here, we…
Global impacts of extractive and industrial development projects on Indigenous Peoples’ lifeways, lands, and rights
To what extent do extractive and industrial development pressures affect Indigenous Peoples’ lifeways, lands, and rights globally? We analyze 3081 environmental conflicts over development projects to quantify Indigenous Peoples’ exposure to 11 reported social-environmental impacts jeopardizing the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Indigenous Peoples are affected in at least 34% of all documented environmental conflic…
Teenagers’ ecological knowledge about dry forests in Northeastern Brazil
Supernatural Gamekeepers Among the Tsimane’ of Bolivian Amazonia
Routledge Handbook of Climate Change Impacts on Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities
Indigenous communities throughout the Arctic are confronting unprecedented challenges arising from anthropogenic climate change. The inextricable connections between their livelihoods and social and environmental systems, combined with a rich foundation of individual and inter-generational collective experience and knowledge, make Indigenous communities particularly adept at observing changes in climate and understanding their impacts. In this ch…
The Effect of Market Economies on the Well-Being of Indigenous Peoples and on Their Use of Renewable Natural Resources
Assessing the effects of markets on the well-being of indigenous peoples and their conservation of natural resources matters to identify public policies to improve well-being and enhance conservation and to test hypotheses about sociocultural change. We review studies about how market economies affect the subsistence, health, nutritional status, social capital, and traditional ecological knowledge of indigenous peoples and their use of renewable …
Reinterpreting Change in Traditional Ecological Knowledge
Cultural, Practical, and Economic Value of Wild Plants
Knowledge and Use Value of Plant Species in a Rarámuri Community
Challenging Perceptions about Men, Women, and Forest Product Use
This study uses a multi-case dataset to question current assumptions about the gender differentiation of forest product use. We test some of the commonly held ideas on how men and women access, manage, and use different forest products. Overall, we found significant gender differentiation in the collection of forest products, which seems to support the claim that there are distinctive "male" and "female" roles associated with the collection of fo…
Schooling and local environmental knowledge
Maintenance versus growth
Immune function is a central component of maintenance effort, and it provides critical protection against the potentially life threatening effects of pathogens. However, immune defenses are energetically expensive, and the resources they consume are not available to support other activities related to growth and/or reproduction. In our study we use a life history theory framework to investigate tradeoffs between maintenance effort and growth amon…
Traditional ecological knowledge and community resilience to environmental extremes
Concepts and Methods in Studies Measuring Individual Ethnobotanical Knowledge
We review 34 quantitative studies that have measured individual-level variations in ethnobotanical knowledge, analyzing how those studies have conceptualized and operationalized ethnobotanical knowledge. We found that this type of research is recent but growing, and is concentrated in indigenous peoples of developing countries. We also found that studies differ on how they conceptualize and measure individual ethnobotanical knowledge. As it is th…
From famine foods to delicatessen
Economic Development and Local Ecological Knowledge
Rapid ecosystem change challenges the adaptive capacity of Local Environmental Knowledge
Knowledge and Consumption of Wild Plants
Researchers have often equated ethnobotanical knowledge collected through interview questions with actual uses of plants, but knowledge and uses of plants might or might not move in lockstep. Using data from 132 adults living in two villages of a foraging-farming society in the Bolivian Amazon, the Tsimane ́, we compare ethnobotanical knowledge with uses of wild and semi-domesticated plants. Villages differed in proximity to the market town and i…
Children's daily activities and knowledge acquisition
BackgroundThe acquisition of local knowledge occurs through complex interactions between individual and contextual characteristics: as context changes, so it changes the acquisition of knowledge. Contemporary small-scale societies facing rapid social-ecological change provide a unique opportunity to study the relation between social-ecological changes and the process of acquisition of local knowledge. In this work, we study children's involvement…
Physical growth and nutritional status of Tsimane' Amerindian children of lowland Bolivia
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% …
Beyond food production
Do pharmaceuticals displace local knowledge and use of medicinal plants? Estimates from a cross-sectional study in a rural indigenous community, Mexico
Long-Term (Secular) Change of Ethnobotanical Knowledge of Useful Plants
Anthropologists, conservation biologists, and psychologists have generally found a long-term (secular) decline of ethnobotanical knowledge among indigenous people. To estimate such knowledge loss, researchers have typically relied on a single cross-sectional data set to (a) measure knowledge among people of different ages, (b) compare measures between ages, and (c) infer a loss of knowledge if the old knew more than the young. We improve on the a…
Human capital, wealth, and nutrition in the Bolivian Amazon
Factors affecting ethnobotanical knowledge in a mestizo community of the Sierra de Huautla Biosphere Reserve, Mexico
Background Worldwide, mestizo communities's ethnobotanical knowledge has been poorly studied. Based on a mestizo group in Mexico, this study assesses a) the use value (UV) of the local flora, b) gendered differences in plant species, and c) the association between socio-economic variables and ethnobotanical knowledge. Methods To assess the degree of knowledge of plant resources, we conducted 41 interviews collecting information on knowledge of lo…
Predictors of C‐reactive protein in Tsimane' 2 to 15 year‐olds in lowland Bolivia
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…
Resilience of traditional knowledge systems
The relevance of traditional knowledge systems for ethnopharmacological research
Background Ethnopharmacology is at the intersection of the medical, natural, and social sciences. Despite its interdisciplinary nature, most ethnopharmacological research has been based on the combination of the chemical, biological, and pharmacological sciences. Far less attention has been given to the social sciences, including anthropology and the study of traditional knowledge systems. Methods I reviewed the literature on traditional knowledg…
Evaluating indices of traditional ecological knowledge
BACKGROUND: New quantitative methods to collect and analyze data have produced novel findings in ethnobiology. A common application of quantitative methods in ethnobiology is to assess the traditional ecological knowledge of individuals. Few studies have addressed reliability of indices of traditional ecological knowledge constructed with different quantitative methods. METHODS: We assessed the associations among eight indices of traditional ecol…
Income inequality and adult nutritional status
Local financial benefits of rain forests
Correlates of delay-discount rates
Validity of Self-Reports to Measure Deforestation
To assess rates of deforestation, researchers typically use questionnaires. But do questionnaires provide accurate information about the extent of forest clearance by households? In this article, the authors provide data on the amount of deforestation in a Tsimane' Amerindian village (Bolivia) and assess informant error by cross-checking three different assessments: (1) a direct physical measure by a research team of each plot cleared from the fo…
Patience in a Foraging-Horticultural Society
Patience, or the ability to delay gratification, matters in the behavioral and medical sciences and in public policy because it correlates with a wide range of desirable outcomes. For instance, patience correlates positively with income, wealth, conservation of natural resources, health, and savings and negatively with crime and drug addiction. Anthropologists have made few contributions to cross-cultural studies of patience despite its importanc…
Measuring Culture as Shared Knowledge
In this article, the authors contribute to the empirical study of culture as shared knowledge by exploring correlations of individual responses to different questionnaires of the same tasks and correlation of individual responses to different tasks. They collected data on ethnobotanical knowledge from 149 adult Tsimane' Amerindians in Bolivia. The authors used a cultural consensus model to calculate individual scores of cultural knowledge for eac…
Do Markets Worsen Economic Inequalities? Kuznets in the Bush
Do smiles have a face value? Panel evidence from Amazonian Indians
Physical growth and nutritional status of Tsimane' Amerindian children of lowland Bolivia
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
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…
Human capital, wealth, and nutrition in the Bolivian Amazon
Physical stature of adult Tsimane’ Amerindians, Bolivian Amazon in the 20th century
Graduate Student Methods Training in Lowland Bolivia
Income inequality and adult nutritional status
Knowledge and Consumption of Wild Plants
Researchers have often equated ethnobotanical knowledge collected through interview questions with actual uses of plants, but knowledge and uses of plants might or might not move in lockstep. Using data from 132 adults living in two villages of a foraging-farming society in the Bolivian Amazon, the Tsimane ́, we compare ethnobotanical knowledge with uses of wild and semi-domesticated plants. Villages differed in proximity to the market town and i…
The Effect of Market Economies on the Well-Being of Indigenous Peoples and on Their Use of Renewable Natural Resources
Assessing the effects of markets on the well-being of indigenous peoples and their conservation of natural resources matters to identify public policies to improve well-being and enhance conservation and to test hypotheses about sociocultural change. We review studies about how market economies affect the subsistence, health, nutritional status, social capital, and traditional ecological knowledge of indigenous peoples and their use of renewable …
Why Do Subsistence-Level People Join the Market Economy? Testing Hypotheses of Push and Pull Determinants in Bolivian Amazonia
Why would subsistence-level indigenous people join the market economy? The question matters because, in answering it, one contributes to a venerable debate about the effects of markets on well-being. Anthropologists have generally treated market participation as exogenous. Market participation is in fact endogenous if it reflects choice. We review hypotheses of determinants that push or pull people to the market, including resource scarcity from …
On the accuracy of perceived parental height in a native Amazonian society
Eating and Healing. Traditional Food as Medicine
Cultural, Practical, and Economic Value of Wild Plants
Evaluating indices of traditional ecological knowledge
BACKGROUND: New quantitative methods to collect and analyze data have produced novel findings in ethnobiology. A common application of quantitative methods in ethnobiology is to assess the traditional ecological knowledge of individuals. Few studies have addressed reliability of indices of traditional ecological knowledge constructed with different quantitative methods. METHODS: We assessed the associations among eight indices of traditional ecol…
The origins of monetary income inequality
Why do mothers favor girls and fathers, boys
Does village inequality in modern income harm the psyche? Anger, fear, sadness, and alcohol consumption in a pre-industrial society
Nutritional status and spousal empowerment among native Amazonians
Personal and Group Incentives to Invest in Prosocial Behavior
Ethnographic evidence, empirical research, and results of experimental studies suggest that people across cultures invest in prosocial behavior, but little research addresses the relative importance of personal versus group incentives to invest in prosocial behavior. We estimate the relative weight of personal and group incentives for households to invest in prosocial behavior using two waves of panel data (2001 and 2002) from ca. 350 Tsimane' Am…
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