R Godoy
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 2427 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | R Godoy |
| NOMBRES | R |
| APELLIDO | Godoy |
| FIRMA | GODOY R |
| AFILIACIONES | Brandeis University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0121-6949 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 44 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 255 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 44 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1983 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 10 |
Preferences for consonance are evident in Indigenous Amazonians with higher, but not lower, levels of global integration
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
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
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
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
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
The results suggest that redressing stunting will require attention to conditions in utero, infancy and late childhood
Conditional cash transfers for primary education
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
Catch-up growth and growth deficits
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
Savings at the Periphery of Markets
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
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
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
Rain, temperature, and child–adolescent height among Native Amazonians in Bolivia
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☆
On the accuracy of perceived parental height in a native Amazonian society
Adult male height in an American colony
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
Anthropometric variability in the USA
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
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…
Physical stature of adult Tsimane’ Amerindians, Bolivian Amazon in the 20th century
W. M. Loker, Changing Places
Brief Communication
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% …
The economic value and sustainable harvest of plants and animals from the tropical forest
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…
Physical stature of adult Tsimane’ Amerindians, Bolivian Amazon in the 20th century
Determinants of smallholder commercial tree cultivation
Do Markets Worsen Economic Inequalities? Kuznets in the Bush
Does village inequality in modern income harm the psyche? Anger, fear, sadness, and alcohol consumption in a pre-industrial society
Toward a Cultural Ecology of Mountains
A model of the cultural ecology of tropical high mountains based on a comparison of the Central Andes and the Himalayas is presented. It is argued that mountain adaptations have three basic elements: (1) an array of vertical production zones, each characterized by a complex interaction of variables including agricultural regime, social organization, stratification, land tenure, labor organization, and level of productivity; (2) choice by the popu…
Nutritional status and spousal empowerment among native Amazonians
The Fiscal Role of the Andean Ayllu
The Pay-Offs to Sociability
Conditional cash transfers for primary education
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). …
The effects of community income inequality on health
Technical and Economic Efficiency of Peasant Miners in Bolivia
The Life Cycle, Ecological, and Economic Determinants of Spousal Leisure Sharing
Market Engagement and Indigenous People
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…
Bolivian Mining
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Human fertility and land tenure in highland Bolivia
Basic demographic data of landless and landed peasants from the highlands and valley of Northern Potosi, Bolivia, are compared. Household size and crude birth rates are larger in the highlands than in the valley. Within the highland population, no statistically significant difference was observed between the age‐specific fertility of landless and landed women, nor in the survivorship ratio of their offspring. The prevalence of exchange and recipr…
Toward a Cultural Ecology of Mountains
A model of the cultural ecology of tropical high mountains based on a comparison of the Central Andes and the Himalayas is presented. It is argued that mountain adaptations have three basic elements: (1) an array of vertical production zones, each characterized by a complex interaction of variables including agricultural regime, social organization, stratification, land tenure, labor organization, and level of productivity; (2) choice by the popu…
Ecological degradation and agricultural intensification in the Andean highlands
Human fertility and land tenure in highland Bolivia
Basic demographic data of landless and landed peasants from the highlands and valley of Northern Potosi, Bolivia, are compared. Household size and crude birth rates are larger in the highlands than in the valley. Within the highland population, no statistically significant difference was observed between the age‐specific fertility of landless and landed women, nor in the survivorship ratio of their offspring. The prevalence of exchange and recipr…
Mining
Infrastructures are material forms that allow for the possibility of exchange over space. They are the physical networks through which goods, ideas, waste, power, people, and finance are trafficked. In this article I trace the range of anthropological ...Read More
Technical and Economic Efficiency of Peasant Miners in Bolivia
Bolivian Mining
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The Fiscal Role of the Andean Ayllu
Small‐scale mining and agriculture among the Jukumani Indians, Northern Potosí, Bolivia
The causal complexities and rationality of high‐grading are examined in the small‐scale antimony mines of the Jukumani Indians of Northern Potosí, Bolivia. Taxes and piece rate systems of payment provide incentives for selective removal of ore. The contractual format in which piece rate systems of payment are embedded serves the interests of both workers and owners. Proprietors are able to off‐load risks to labourers by paying them by results. Pe…
The profitability of smallholder rattan cultivation in Southern Borneo, Indonesia
Determinants of smallholder commercial tree cultivation
Mining and Agriculture in Highland Bolivia
Effects of Government Policies on Smallholder Palm Cultivation
Rattan is a non-timber forest product with good market potential that has been cultivated sustainably by smallholders for over a century. The government of Indonesia imposed a ban on the export of raw and semi-processed rattan in 1988. To determine whether and how the ban has affected smallholders, we interviewed farmers in two rattan-growing regions in Kalimantan. Since the ban, prices and rural incomes have dropped, cultivation has slowed/stopp…
The economic value and sustainable harvest of plants and animals from the tropical forest
Mining and Agriculture in Highland Bolivia
Tenure security, private time preference, and use of natural resources among lowland Bolivian Amerindians
Local financial benefits of rain forests
The Life Cycle, Ecological, and Economic Determinants of Spousal Leisure Sharing
Do Markets Worsen Economic Inequalities? Kuznets in the Bush
Brief Communication
Anthropometric variability in the USA
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
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…
Physical stature of adult Tsimane’ Amerindians, Bolivian Amazon in the 20th century
On the accuracy of perceived parental height in a native Amazonian society
Adult male height in an American colony
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