Kathryn Coe
Biographic Data
| ID | 3581035 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kathryn Coe |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kathryn |
| FAMILY NAME | Coe |
| SIGNATURE | COE K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1284-3841 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 37 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 35 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The interdependence of ancestors and their descendants
Ancestor worship, the communicated acceptance of the claim that dead ancestors influence and/or are influenced by their living descendants, has been documented in societies all over the world. Despite some researchers’ claims that ancestor worship was once universal, there have been relatively few attempts to explain how and why this behavior became so prominent in unrelated and geographically separated societies. A notable exception is the desce…
Happy marriages are all alike: Marriage and self-rated health among Serbian Roma
We describe how self-rated health varies with gender, type of marriage (marriage of choice vs arranged marriage), and cultural traits among Serbian Roma. Data on 91 men and 113 women (self-reported health, demographics and family dynamics) were collected in 2016 in Roma communities in Belgrade, Serbia. Roma in arranged marriage differ on a number of variables in regard to Roma in marriage of choice but not in regard to self-rated health. Gender s…
Factors influencing performance by contracted non-state providers implementing a basic package of health services in Afghanistan
Three sets of factors influenced the implementation of the BPHS: contextual, contractual and institutional. The MoPH should consider all of these factors when contracting out the BPHS and other functions to NSPs. Other fragile states and countries emerging from a period of conflict could learn from Afghanistan's example in contracting out primary health care services, keeping in mind that generic or universal contracting policies might not work i…
Role models and health of Serbian Roma women
We examine role model choice among Serbian Roma women and describe the relationships found among preferred role model type and socio-economic and health variables. Data were collected in 2015-2016 from 274 Roma women, averaging 55 years of age. Most often, Roma women chose female family members as role models, but some women also chose role models outside their ethic group. We discuss how the values of the two disparate role model choices, i.e., …
Reproductive Investment and Health Costs in Roma Women
In this paper, we examine whether variation in reproductive investment affects the health of Roma women using a dataset collected through original anthropological fieldwork among Roma women in Serbia. Data were collected in 2014-2016 in several Roma semi-urban settlements in central Serbia. The sample consisted of 468 Roma women, averaging 44 years of age. We collected demographic data (age, school levels, socioeconomic status), risk behaviors (s…
The health of Romanian Gypsy women in Serbia
Indigenous people are over-represented among the world's disadvantaged; their health is influenced by lack of access to critical resources including health care and by their cultural practices. We report on the health and the health practices of one group of indigenous women, the Roma/Gypsies of northern Serbia who live in poverty, reside in sub-standardized housing in segregated communities, and are poorly educated and stigmatized. We describe t…
The Use of Family Rituals in Eating Behaviors in Hispanic Mothers
Food rituals often abruptly change when Hispanic families migrate to the United States. This report describes changes in rituals of food procurement, preparation, and presentation (food-PPP) in Hispanic women following migration to the United States. Focus groups and face-to-face interviews were conducted with 13 low-income, overweight/obese Hispanic women 27 to 40 years of age. Content analysis was used to analyze cultural and contextual sources…
Ancestor Worship and the Longevity of Chinese Civilization (祖先崇拜与中华文明的长期延续)
Although an impressive body of literature is devoted to the practice of venerating ancestors in China and other places, there is little agreement on what ancestor worship is, where it is practiced, and whether it is an ancient and persistent trait. Ancestor worship, we argue, is an ancient trait that has persisted in China, as in other parts of the world, since prehistoric times. We also discuss its universal aspects, including those associated w…
Reconceptualizing the Human Social Niche: How It Came to Exist and How It Is Changing
In this paper we present a reconceptualization of the social dimension of the human niche and the evolutionary process that brought it into existence. We agree with many other evolutionary approaches that a key aspect of the human niche is a social environment consisting primarily of cooperating and altruistic individuals, not a Hobbesian social environment of "war of all against all." However, in contrast to the conception of this social environ…
Totemism and long-term evolutionary success
This paper proposes that the clan Totemism existing in many traditional cultures, and described as religious by many ethnographers, provides evidence about the early evolutionary function of religion in the sense that it provides evidence of the effects of religion that caused it to become widespread in our species. However, this paper also proposes that evolutionary explanations of Totemism have failed to fully appreciate the reason clan Totemis…
Religion, Kinship and Health Behaviors of African American Women
A positive relationship exists between functional health and religion. We present an empirical definition of religion and describe the key elements of religious behavior, building a model that can be used to explore the presumed relationship between religion and health. Semi-structured interactive interviews were conducted with 22 participants over a 6-month period. Head Start programs and churches located in the inner city of a large metropolita…
Using Rituals for Intervention Refinement
In this paper we propose a culture-based health promotion/disease prevention intervention model. This model, which is family-based, incorporates a life course perspective, which involves the identification of individual developmental milestones, and incorporates aspects of culture that have been widely used across cultures to influence behavior and mark important developmental transitions. Central among those cultural traits is the ritual, or rit…
Using a Community-Based Participatory Research Approach to Collect Hopi Breast Cancer Survivors' Stories
INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES: Breast cancer is the most frequent cancer endured by women on the Hopi Indian Reservation in northern Arizona. Women diagnosed with breast cancer and their family caregivers need knowledge of how other native women living on the reservation have successfully survived. Focus groups were used to explore local perceptions of breast cancer and breast cancer caregiving. Insights gained were incorporated into digital storie…
The National Cancer Institute’s Community Networks Program Initiative to Reduce Cancer Health Disparities: Outcomes and Lessons Learned
Findings demonstrate the value of government-supported, community-academic, CBPR partnerships in cancer prevention and control research
Promotoras' Roles in Integrative Validity and Treatment Fidelity Efforts in Randomized Controlled Trials
Promotoras from the communities in which interventions are implemented can be effective contributors to validity and fidelity efforts. This article describes a 48-week randomized controlled trial Madres para la Salud (Mothers for Health) and illustrates the use of promotoras as collaborative members of the research team to contribute to attaining integrative validity and treatment fidelity. Madres para la Salud implements a culturally tailored ph…
Operationalization of Community-Based Participatory Research Principles: Assessment of the National Cancer Institute's Community Network Programs
Objectives. We examined how National Cancer Institute–funded Community Network Programs (CNPs) operationalized principles of community-based participatory research (CBPR). Methods. We reviewed the literature and extant CBPR measurement tools. On the basis of that review, we developed a 27-item questionnaire for CNPs to self-assess their operationalization of 9 CBPR principles. Our team comprised representatives of 9 of the National Cancer Institu…
In defence of differentiating pilgrimage from tourism
There has been a recent trend to conclude that it is impossible, or at least unproductive, to differentiate pilgrimage from tourism. We challenge this trend by arguing that pilgrimage can be defined and distinguished from tourism by examining how these words are used literally. We conclude that pilgrimage can be defined as a journey claimed to be undertaken for reasons involving religious sacrifice, and that applying the word pilgrimage to touris…
Food Aversions and Cravings during Early Pregnancy: Association with Nausea and Vomiting
The prospective cohort study examined whether Ecuadorian women with early pregnancy nausea and vomiting (NVP) are more likely to develop food aversions and cravings, and if so, whether the specific foods identified as aversive or craved are the same as those predicted by the popular maternal-embryo protection hypothesis (MEPH). Consistent with MEPH predictions, women with NVP were more likely to report increased odor sensitivity and aversions for…
"Low Sex" Cultures, Religious Moral Traditions, and Evolutionary Theory Cultural Mechanisms for Influencing Male Sexual Behavior
In 1976, Heider claimed that Dani males had a low sex drive, and in 1971, Altschuler argued that Cayapa/Chachi males are among the world's most sexually repressed people. We use these ethnographies to point out inconsistencies in their arguments and ask, since there is no basis for thinking these males were uninterested in sex, why such talk would be common in these and other social groups. We resurrect Malinowsk's claim that sex can be a disrupt…
Parenting, courtship, Disneyland and the human brain
Using evidence drawn from the Southern California tourist industry, Geoffrey Miller argues that creativity, storytelling, humour, wit, music, fantasy, and morality, evolved as forms of courtship behaviour. Although he refers to the 'mind as amusement park' he fails to include in his analysis the most famous amusement park in the world, Disneyland, which is one of the most dense concentrations in the world of exactly those aspects of culture (art,…
How Elders Guided the Evolution of the Modern Human Brain, Social Behavior, and Culture
To prepare for writing this article, we reviewed many academic tomes, from anthropology to zoology, and perused many decades’ worth of ethnographic studies of American Indian elders and elders from other groups around the world. We wanted not only to describe elderly American Indians but also to build the argument that elders are of critical importance for American Indian families and communities and have been of critical importance for tens of t…
Nicholas J. G. Winter. Dangerous Frames: How Ideas about Race and Gender Shape Public Opinion
Few observers would disagree that the 2008 presidential campaign brought issues of race and gender into American politics in new and meaningful ways. With the first African American nominated to lead a major party ticket, a drawn out primary contest with a serious female contender, and a female vice presidential nominee, there are many important questions about race and gender in politics to be explored over the next several years. Into this mili…
Designing Health Promotion Programs for Latinos
Predictors of Pap Test Use Among Women Living on the Hopi Reservation
Between July and December 1993, the Hopi Department of Health Services, in collaboration with the Arizona Cancer Center (AZCC), conducted a population-based study of cervical cancer risk factors, screening practices, and predictors of Pap test utilization among American Indian women age 18 years and older living on the Hopi reservation in northern Arizona. This survey, entitled the Healthy Hopi Women's Study, involved a stratified random sample o…
Traditions and alcohol use: A mixed-methods analysis
An integrative mixed-methods analysis examined traditional beliefs as associated with beliefs about self-care during pregnancy and with alcohol abstinence among young adult women from two rural U.S.-Mexico border communities. Quantitative (measured scale) variables and qualitative thematic variables generated from open-ended responses served as within-time predictors of these health-related outcomes. A weaker belief that life is better in big cit…
Traditions and alcohol use: A mixed-methods analysis
An integrative mixed-methods analysis examined traditional beliefs as associated with beliefs about self-care during pregnancy and with alcohol abstinence among young adult women from two rural U.S.-Mexico border communities. Quantitative (measured scale) variables and qualitative thematic variables generated from open-ended responses served as within-time predictors of these health-related outcomes. A weaker belief that life is better in big cit…
Reconceptualizing the Human Social Niche: How It Came to Exist and How It Is Changing
In this paper we present a reconceptualization of the social dimension of the human niche and the evolutionary process that brought it into existence. We agree with many other evolutionary approaches that a key aspect of the human niche is a social environment consisting primarily of cooperating and altruistic individuals, not a Hobbesian social environment of "war of all against all." However, in contrast to the conception of this social environ…
In defence of differentiating pilgrimage from tourism
There has been a recent trend to conclude that it is impossible, or at least unproductive, to differentiate pilgrimage from tourism. We challenge this trend by arguing that pilgrimage can be defined and distinguished from tourism by examining how these words are used literally. We conclude that pilgrimage can be defined as a journey claimed to be undertaken for reasons involving religious sacrifice, and that applying the word pilgrimage to touris…
More Kin: An Effect of the Tradition of Marriage
Kinship has often been referred to as the heart of anthropology because societies are woven together by genealogical ties. In this paper we present a general model of the effect of the tradition of marriage on the potential number of individuals that can be identified as kin. The exact amount of increase in the number identifiable kin depends on demographic variables, but it will always be greater than the mere doubling of kin that might be first…
On Tools and Traditions
Once Upon a Time: Ancestors and the Evolutionary Significance of Stories
I have always thought that the oldest profession was that of storyteller—in particular, the teller of supernatural tales. (Hand 1996, 17) Evolutionary theorists attempting to explain forms of liter
The National Cancer Institute’s Community Networks Program Initiative to Reduce Cancer Health Disparities: Outcomes and Lessons Learned
Findings demonstrate the value of government-supported, community-academic, CBPR partnerships in cancer prevention and control research
Operationalization of Community-Based Participatory Research Principles: Assessment of the National Cancer Institute's Community Network Programs
Objectives. We examined how National Cancer Institute–funded Community Network Programs (CNPs) operationalized principles of community-based participatory research (CBPR). Methods. We reviewed the literature and extant CBPR measurement tools. On the basis of that review, we developed a 27-item questionnaire for CNPs to self-assess their operationalization of 9 CBPR principles. Our team comprised representatives of 9 of the National Cancer Institu…
Parenting, courtship, Disneyland and the human brain
Using evidence drawn from the Southern California tourist industry, Geoffrey Miller argues that creativity, storytelling, humour, wit, music, fantasy, and morality, evolved as forms of courtship behaviour. Although he refers to the 'mind as amusement park' he fails to include in his analysis the most famous amusement park in the world, Disneyland, which is one of the most dense concentrations in the world of exactly those aspects of culture (art,…
Tattoos and male alliances
Cancer mortality in U.S. counties with hazardous waste sites
Tattoos and male alliances
The human breast and the ancestral reproductive cycle: A preliminary inquiry into breast cancer etiology
Hungry for Hope: On the Cultural and Communicative Dimensions of Development in Highland Ecuador
Hungry for Hope: On the Cultural and Communicative Dimensions of Development in Highland Ecuador. Carmen G. Hess. London: Intermediate Technology Publications Ltd
African American Midwifery in the South: Dialogues of Birth, Race, and Memory
African American Midwifery in the South: Dialogues of Birth, Race, and Memory. Gertrude Jacinta Fraser. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998. ix. 287 pp., notes, references, index
Traditionalism and Its Relationship to Disease Risk and Protective Behaviors of Women Living on the Hopi Reservation
The fundamental aim of this study was to identify factors crucial for the development of effective cancer prevention programs for American Indian (AI) populations. Toward that end, we developed an instrument to assess the influence of traditionalism on health risks such as smoking, consumption, and obesity. A population-based survey was conducted among 559 randomly selected women living on the Hopi reservation aged 18 years and older, from July t…
More Kin: An Effect of the Tradition of Marriage
Kinship has often been referred to as the heart of anthropology because societies are woven together by genealogical ties. In this paper we present a general model of the effect of the tradition of marriage on the potential number of individuals that can be identified as kin. The exact amount of increase in the number identifiable kin depends on demographic variables, but it will always be greater than the mere doubling of kin that might be first…
On Tools and Traditions
The Many Manipulations of Morty Mouse: Children's Stories and the Parental Encouragement of Altruism
Most analyses of children's stories share the assumption that stories are told to children to influence their behavior. This paper explores how the analysis of stories can provide insight into social strategies used by people interacting within their cultural context. To demonstrate the potential of this approach, we created multiple versions of an original children's story to explore attitudes of college students toward the form of social intera…
Once Upon a Time: Ancestors and the Evolutionary Significance of Stories
I have always thought that the oldest profession was that of storyteller—in particular, the teller of supernatural tales. (Hand 1996, 17) Evolutionary theorists attempting to explain forms of liter
Designing Health Promotion Programs for Latinos
Predictors of Pap Test Use Among Women Living on the Hopi Reservation
Between July and December 1993, the Hopi Department of Health Services, in collaboration with the Arizona Cancer Center (AZCC), conducted a population-based study of cervical cancer risk factors, screening practices, and predictors of Pap test utilization among American Indian women age 18 years and older living on the Hopi reservation in northern Arizona. This survey, entitled the Healthy Hopi Women's Study, involved a stratified random sample o…
Traditions and alcohol use: A mixed-methods analysis
An integrative mixed-methods analysis examined traditional beliefs as associated with beliefs about self-care during pregnancy and with alcohol abstinence among young adult women from two rural U.S.-Mexico border communities. Quantitative (measured scale) variables and qualitative thematic variables generated from open-ended responses served as within-time predictors of these health-related outcomes. A weaker belief that life is better in big cit…
Nicholas J. G. Winter. Dangerous Frames: How Ideas about Race and Gender Shape Public Opinion
Few observers would disagree that the 2008 presidential campaign brought issues of race and gender into American politics in new and meaningful ways. With the first African American nominated to lead a major party ticket, a drawn out primary contest with a serious female contender, and a female vice presidential nominee, there are many important questions about race and gender in politics to be explored over the next several years. Into this mili…
How Elders Guided the Evolution of the Modern Human Brain, Social Behavior, and Culture
To prepare for writing this article, we reviewed many academic tomes, from anthropology to zoology, and perused many decades’ worth of ethnographic studies of American Indian elders and elders from other groups around the world. We wanted not only to describe elderly American Indians but also to build the argument that elders are of critical importance for American Indian families and communities and have been of critical importance for tens of t…
Parenting, courtship, Disneyland and the human brain
Using evidence drawn from the Southern California tourist industry, Geoffrey Miller argues that creativity, storytelling, humour, wit, music, fantasy, and morality, evolved as forms of courtship behaviour. Although he refers to the 'mind as amusement park' he fails to include in his analysis the most famous amusement park in the world, Disneyland, which is one of the most dense concentrations in the world of exactly those aspects of culture (art,…
Food Aversions and Cravings during Early Pregnancy: Association with Nausea and Vomiting
The prospective cohort study examined whether Ecuadorian women with early pregnancy nausea and vomiting (NVP) are more likely to develop food aversions and cravings, and if so, whether the specific foods identified as aversive or craved are the same as those predicted by the popular maternal-embryo protection hypothesis (MEPH). Consistent with MEPH predictions, women with NVP were more likely to report increased odor sensitivity and aversions for…
"Low Sex" Cultures, Religious Moral Traditions, and Evolutionary Theory Cultural Mechanisms for Influencing Male Sexual Behavior
In 1976, Heider claimed that Dani males had a low sex drive, and in 1971, Altschuler argued that Cayapa/Chachi males are among the world's most sexually repressed people. We use these ethnographies to point out inconsistencies in their arguments and ask, since there is no basis for thinking these males were uninterested in sex, why such talk would be common in these and other social groups. We resurrect Malinowsk's claim that sex can be a disrupt…
Promotoras' Roles in Integrative Validity and Treatment Fidelity Efforts in Randomized Controlled Trials
Promotoras from the communities in which interventions are implemented can be effective contributors to validity and fidelity efforts. This article describes a 48-week randomized controlled trial Madres para la Salud (Mothers for Health) and illustrates the use of promotoras as collaborative members of the research team to contribute to attaining integrative validity and treatment fidelity. Madres para la Salud implements a culturally tailored ph…
Operationalization of Community-Based Participatory Research Principles: Assessment of the National Cancer Institute's Community Network Programs
Objectives. We examined how National Cancer Institute–funded Community Network Programs (CNPs) operationalized principles of community-based participatory research (CBPR). Methods. We reviewed the literature and extant CBPR measurement tools. On the basis of that review, we developed a 27-item questionnaire for CNPs to self-assess their operationalization of 9 CBPR principles. Our team comprised representatives of 9 of the National Cancer Institu…
In defence of differentiating pilgrimage from tourism
There has been a recent trend to conclude that it is impossible, or at least unproductive, to differentiate pilgrimage from tourism. We challenge this trend by arguing that pilgrimage can be defined and distinguished from tourism by examining how these words are used literally. We conclude that pilgrimage can be defined as a journey claimed to be undertaken for reasons involving religious sacrifice, and that applying the word pilgrimage to touris…
Totemism and long-term evolutionary success
This paper proposes that the clan Totemism existing in many traditional cultures, and described as religious by many ethnographers, provides evidence about the early evolutionary function of religion in the sense that it provides evidence of the effects of religion that caused it to become widespread in our species. However, this paper also proposes that evolutionary explanations of Totemism have failed to fully appreciate the reason clan Totemis…
Religion, Kinship and Health Behaviors of African American Women
A positive relationship exists between functional health and religion. We present an empirical definition of religion and describe the key elements of religious behavior, building a model that can be used to explore the presumed relationship between religion and health. Semi-structured interactive interviews were conducted with 22 participants over a 6-month period. Head Start programs and churches located in the inner city of a large metropolita…
Using Rituals for Intervention Refinement
In this paper we propose a culture-based health promotion/disease prevention intervention model. This model, which is family-based, incorporates a life course perspective, which involves the identification of individual developmental milestones, and incorporates aspects of culture that have been widely used across cultures to influence behavior and mark important developmental transitions. Central among those cultural traits is the ritual, or rit…
Using a Community-Based Participatory Research Approach to Collect Hopi Breast Cancer Survivors' Stories
INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES: Breast cancer is the most frequent cancer endured by women on the Hopi Indian Reservation in northern Arizona. Women diagnosed with breast cancer and their family caregivers need knowledge of how other native women living on the reservation have successfully survived. Focus groups were used to explore local perceptions of breast cancer and breast cancer caregiving. Insights gained were incorporated into digital storie…
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