Henry A Selby

Dados Biográficos

ID101069
NOMEHenry A Selby
PRENOMESHenry A
SOBRENOMESelby
ASSINATURASELBY H A
AFILIAÇÕESThe University of Texas at Austin
VERIFICADONão
TOTAL DE OBRAS23
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES197
TOTAL COMO AUTOR23
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO1966
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO1997
ÍNDICE H5

  • Beautiful Flowers of the Maquiladora

    Norma Iglesias Prieto, Gabrielle Winkler et al.BOOKBeautiful Flowers of the…1997

    Published originally as La flor mas bella de la maquiladora, this beautifully written book is based on interviews the author conducted with more than fifty Mexican women who work in the assembly plants along the U.S.-Mexico border. A descriptive analytic study conducted in the late 1970s, the book uses compelling testimonials to detail the struggles these women face. The experiences of women in maquiladoras are attracting increasing attention fro…

  • Exits from the Labyrinth

    Open AccessHenry A SelbyARTICLEAmerican Ethnologist1995

  • Social/Cultural Anthropology

    Open AccessHenry A SelbyARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist1992

  • The Mexican Urban Household

    Henry A Selby, Arthur D Murphy et al.BOOKMexican Urban Household1990

    The sufferings of "ordinary" people under harsh economic conditions can eventually lead to the fall of governments. Given this fact, it becomes important to know how "ordinary" people live—what privations they suffer and what strategies they use to survive in times of economic crisis. The Mexican Urban Household provides this information for Mexico near the end of the twentieth century. Mexico is now a predominantly urban nation, and this study i…

  • Social/Cultural Anthropology

    Open AccessHenry A Selby, Henry SelbyARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist1988

  • Battling Urban Poverty from Below

    Open AccessHenry A Selby, Arthur D Murphy et al.ARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist1987Citada por: 2

  • Socioeconomic variation in the growth status of children in a subsistence agricultural community

    Open AccessRobert M Malina, Bertis B Little et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Physical…1985Citada por: 19Referências: 14

    Socioeconomic variation in the growth status of 293 children, 6 through 13 years of age, from a rural subsistence agricultural community in southern Mexico was considered. Socioeconomic status was based on an index developed from landholdings, household goods, and occupation, and households were classified as high and low status. Growth measurements included weight, stature, sitting height, estimated leg length, arm and estimated arm muscle circu…

  • Somos Tocayos

    Open AccessHenry A SelbyARTICLEAmerican Ethnologist1985

  • Applied

    Open AccessHenry A Selby, Henry SelbyARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist1984

  • Assortative mating for phenotypic characteristics in a Zapotec community in Oaxaca, Mexico

    Open AccessRobert M Malina, Henry A Selby et al.ARTICLEJournal of Biosocial Science1983

    Assortative mating for age and several anthropometric characteristics is considered in a sample of 68–70 husband-wife pairs from a rural Zapotec-speaking community in the Valley of Oaxaca in southern Mexico. Conditions in the community with a population of approximately 1700 indicate chronic, mild-to-moderate undernutrition as reflected in high infant mortality rates, smaller body size of school children, and delayed biological maturation. Phenot…

  • Adult stature and age at menarche in Zapotec‐speaking communities in the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico, in a secular perspective

    Open AccessRobert M Malina, Henry A Selby et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Physical…1983Citada por: 18Referências: 36

    Adult stature and the age at menarche among individuals from Zapotec‐speaking communities in the Valley of Oaxaca in southern Mexico are considered in a secular perspective. Four sets of observations are utilized: (1) adult stature in males and females from five rural communities; (2) age at menarche in adult women and school girls from a single rural community; (3) earlier studies of adult stature in the Valley of Oaxaca; and (4) estimated statu…

  • Aging in selected anthropometric dimensions in a rural Zapotec-speaking community in the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico

    Open AccessRobert M Malina, Peter H Buschang et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine1982Citada por: 12Referências: 22

  • Growth status of schoolchildren in a rural Zapotec community in the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico, in 1968 and 1978

    Open AccessRobert M Malina, Henry A Selby et al.ARTICLEAnnals of Human Biology1980

    Stature, weight, arm circumference, triceps skinfold and estimated mid-arm muscle circumference were compared in schoolchildren, 6 to 14 years of age, in 1968 and 1978. The children were resident in a rural Zapotec-speaking community in the Valley of Oaxaca in southern Mexico. There were no differences in stature, weight and arm circumference over the ten-year period. Triceps skinfold and estimated mid-arm muscle circumference showed small, signi…

  • Quantification in Cultural Anthropology

    Open AccessHenry A SelbyARTICLEAmerican Ethnologist1980Citada por: 1

  • Meaning in Anthropology

    Joseph B Casagrande, Keith H Basso et al.REVIEWMan1979

  • Meaning in Anthropology

    Henry A Selby, Keith Basso et al.BOOKMeaning in Anthropology1977Citada por: 102

  • Zapotec Deviance

    Margo L Smith, Henry A SelbyARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…1976

  • Norms and behavior

    Henry A SelbyARTICLEReviews in Anthropology1976

    Francesca Cancian. What Are Norms? A Study of Beliefs and Action in a Maya Community. New York and London: Cambridge University Press, 1975. x + 212 pp. Tables, diagrams, appendices, references and index. $14.95. Richard A. Thompson. The Winds of Tomorrow: Social Change in a Maya Town. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1974. x + 182 pp. Tables, references and index. $12.50

  • Kinship and Social Organization

    Robin Fox, Ira R Buchler et al.ARTICLEMan1969

  • A Formal Study of Myth

    Elli Köngäs Maranda, Ira R Buchler et al.ARTICLEJournal of American Folklore1969

  • General

    Open AccessHenry A SelbyARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist1969

  • Sex Differences in the Incidence of Susto in Two Zapotec Pueblos

    Open AccessCarl W O''Nell, Carl W O’nell et al.ARTICLEEthnology1968Citada por: 41

    Carl W. O'Nell, Henry A. Selby, Sex Differences in the Incidence of Susto in Two Zapotec Pueblos: An Analysis of the Relationships between Sex Role Expectations and a Folk Illness, Ethnology, Vol. 7, No. 1 (Jan., 1968), pp. 95-105

  • Foreign Students at a High-Pressure University

    Henry A Selby, Clyde M WoodsARTICLESociology of Education1966Citada por: 2