K S Oths
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 11864 |
|---|---|
| NOME | K S Oths |
| PRENOMES | K S |
| SOBRENOME | Oths |
| ASSINATURA | OTHS K S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Alabama |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7832-457X |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 27 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 239 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 27 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1992 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Use what you have
In mid-2021, the CommuniVax Alabama team broadened their community engagement by partnering with the Chamber of Commerce, the Alabama Department of Public Health, and others to bring vaccines to the workplace. Through this collaboration, the team hoped to fortify the state's persistently anemic rate of vaccination. The goals of increasing access to, and convenience of COVID-19 vaccination were only partially achieved due to human resource and pol…
Deep hanging out, mixed methods toolkit, or something else? Current ethnographic practices in US anthropology
We use a mix of qualitative and quantitative analyses to examine 1354 survey responses from members of the American Anthropological Association about their practice and teaching of cultural anthropology research methods. Latent profile analysis and an examination of responses to open-ended survey questions reveal distinctive methodological clustering among anthropologists. However, two historical approaches to ethnography remain prominent: deep h…
Age at Arrival and Depression among Mexican Immigrant Women in Alabama
Mexican-born women in the U.S. are at high risk of depression. While acculturation is the primary analytical framework used to study immigrant mental health, this research suffers from (1) a lack of specificity regarding how cultural models of living and being take shape among migrants converging in new destinations in the U.S., and (2) methods to empirically capture the impact of cultural positioning on individual health outcomes. Instead of rel…
Cultural Consonance in Food Consumption and Nutrient Intake in Southern Brazil
Culture influences food consumption and nutrient intake. In this paper we present a new approach in research, examining how knowledge and understanding of food is encoded in cultural models. The degree to which individuals match these shared models in their own consumption patterns is then measured, using the concept of cultural consonance. In research conducted in urban Brazil, the configuration of cultural models of food, and the association of…
Time in the United States and diabetes among Mexican immigrant women
Mexican immigrants in the U.S. show high incidence of type 2 diabetes, and increased risk is associated with longer duration of residency. This study considers the impact of culture over time for Mexican immigrant women in a southern U.S. city. Using cultural consensus analysis to empirically derive the substance and structure of a cultural model for la buena vida (the good life) among Mexican immigrant women in Birmingham, Alabama, we assess the…
Biocultural Strategies for Measuring Psychosocial Stress Outcomes in Field-based Research
The goal of assessing psychosocial stress as a process and outcome in naturalistic (i.e., field) settings is applicable across the social, biological, and health sciences. Meaningful measurement of biology-in-context is, however, far from simple or straightforward. In this brief methods review, we introduce theoretical framings, methodological conventions, and ethical concerns around field-collection of markers of psychosocial stress that have em…
La Buena Vida
Mexican immigrant women come to the United States in pursuit of what they call la buena vida (the good life) for themselves and for their children. The research described here attempts to better understand what la buena vida means to these women in terms of what they perceive as necessary to achieve this ideal. While the theoretical construct of acculturation is typically used to study what happens to individuals transitioning from one cultural o…
All's Well That Ends Well
Farmers markets are inextricably tied to local politics, culture, and individual feelings and behaviors about food and community. Just as the farmers market can be a site for community integration and bonding, it can also be a site of contention-especially when long-standing traditions are threatened. When city planners in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, decided to relocate the modest but long-established farmers market to a new indoor facility along the re…
A decade of rapid change
OBJECTIVES: In the past decade many areas of Peru have been undergoing extreme environmental, economic, and cultural change. In the highland hamlet of Chugurpampa, La Libertad, climate change has ruined harvests and led to frequent periods of migration to the coast in search of livelihood. This biocultural research examines how the changes could be affecting the growth of children who maintain residence in the highlands. METHODS: Clinical records…
Who Will Be Served? Farmers Market Variability and the Expectations of Young Adults
The number of farmers markets in the United States has increased rapidly over the past decade. The emergence of trendier markets puts pressure on cities to rehabilitate their traditional markets to compete. When considering any new community enterprise, it is imperative to gather knowledge on the needs, wants, and extent of the potential customer base in order to shape it to local realities. While much has been said about the elitist nature of al…
How culture shapes the body
OBJECTIVES: The aim of this article is to develop a model of how culture shapes the body, based on two studies conducted in urban Brazil. METHODS: Research was conducted in 1991 and 2001 in four socioeconomically distinct neighborhoods. First, cultural domain analyses were conducted with samples of key informants. The cultural domains investigated included lifestyle, social support, family life, national identity, and food. Cultural consensus ana…
Chestnuts and Spring Chickens
The taxonomy of farmers markets requires an update to encompass the expanding range of available options. Also absent from the literature is an appreciation of the connection between market types, ideological stances, social characteristics, and conflict-necessary for understanding the social processes, motivations, and expectations that create a farmers market. Our study of a long-standing farmers market on the verge of municipal revamping aims …
Intracultural Diversity in Food Knowledge in Southern Brazil
This research explores the social distribution of food knowledge in Ribeirão Preto, a city in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. Through an analysis of the distribution of individual expertise in regard to the cultural model of food along the dimensions of healthfulness, practicality, and prestige, this research demonstrates that knowledge of the cultural model of food is most strongly shared in the upper class of the city. Qualitative and quantitat…
Cultural consonance and adult body composition in urban Brazil
In previous research in Brazil, we found socioeconomic and gender differences in body mass and percent body fat, consistent with a model in which individuals in higher socioeconomic strata, especially women, could achieve a cultural ideal of body size and shape. In this article, using new data, we examine these processes more precisely using measures of cultural consonance. Cultural consonance refers to the degree to which individuals approximate…
Reflections on Teaching SCRM
Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation William Dressler, Kathryn Oths; Reflections on Teaching SCRM: Survey Research Methods in Anthropology. Practicing Anthropology 1 January 2008; 30 (1): 40–41. doi: https://doi.org/10.17730/praa.30.1.7331n0gu840t4265 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) R…
Give Me Shelter
Domestic violence is a growing public health concern in the United States. Research to date has focused more on why women stay in abusive relationships than on factors influencing their leaving. The work presented here explores the social structural connections between culturally defined social events and the timing of entry into the shelter system. Handwerker's (1996) taxonomy of the causal theories of domestic violence is used and expanded upon…
Race and Ethnicity in Public Health Research
The description and explanation of racial and ethnic health disparities are major initiatives of the public health research establishment. Black Americans suffer on nearly every measure of health in relation to white Americans. Five theoretical models have been proposed to explain these disparities: a racial-genetic model, a health-behavior model, a socioeconomic status model, a psychosocial stress model, and a structural-constructivist model. We…
Eating, drinking and being depressed
Social Status and Food Preference in Southern Brazil
The prestige value of food and food behaviors is a topic of inquiry that complements the study of nutritional aspects of food use. In this work, varying social groups in Brazil are examined with regard to their evaluation of the status of available foods, and in turn, the frequencies with which they consume high and low status foods. Ethnographic and structured interviews were used to collect data, with agreement among groups tested by using Cult…
Seeking Early Care
This exploratory study investigates the role of social support in the initiation of prenatal care by analyzing data from interviews with 36 pregnant women at a public health facility in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. A systematic sample of U.S.-born women aged 19 to 34 who initiated care in each of the three trimesters was interviewed. After controlling for age and education, three variables were found to be associated with earlier estimated gestational ag…
Sponsored by
Debilidad
Northern Peruvian highlanders complain of debilidad to express an embodied exhaustion resulting from a lifelong accumulation of productive and reproductive stresses. This study uses a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods and a political-economic and materialistinformed biocultural approach to explore this "women's illness " and why is also experienced by men and children. Eighty-two percent of cases of debilidad occur in the househ…
Assessing variation in health status in the Andes
Communication in a chiropractic clinic
Health Care Decisions of Households in Economic Crisis
In the study of medical decision-making, health care costs have perhaps received the greatest share of attention by researchers. This article illustrates an Andean pattern of medical treatment choice and how it changed when household resources suddenly became scarce during an economic crisis. With the economic downturn, highlanders did not revert from biomedical to traditional care, but continued to use each in lesser quantities, focusing their r…
Race and Ethnicity in Public Health Research
The description and explanation of racial and ethnic health disparities are major initiatives of the public health research establishment. Black Americans suffer on nearly every measure of health in relation to white Americans. Five theoretical models have been proposed to explain these disparities: a racial-genetic model, a health-behavior model, a socioeconomic status model, a psychosocial stress model, and a structural-constructivist model. We…
Debilidad
Northern Peruvian highlanders complain of debilidad to express an embodied exhaustion resulting from a lifelong accumulation of productive and reproductive stresses. This study uses a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods and a political-economic and materialistinformed biocultural approach to explore this "women's illness " and why is also experienced by men and children. Eighty-two percent of cases of debilidad occur in the househ…
Eating, drinking and being depressed
Some Symbolic Dimensions of Andean Materia Medica
Therapeutic healing symbols should be recognized as being embedded in and arising from a cultural context, which both specialists and nonspecialists then draw upon in treating the sick. The symbolic aspects of material features of medical systems have been discussed in reference to biomedicine, but little discussion has been devoted to these symbolic dimensions of traditional medical systems. Ethnographic data from an Andean hamlet in Northern Pe…
Seeking Early Care
This exploratory study investigates the role of social support in the initiation of prenatal care by analyzing data from interviews with 36 pregnant women at a public health facility in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. A systematic sample of U.S.-born women aged 19 to 34 who initiated care in each of the three trimesters was interviewed. After controlling for age and education, three variables were found to be associated with earlier estimated gestational ag…
Assessing variation in health status in the Andes
Biocultural Strategies for Measuring Psychosocial Stress Outcomes in Field-based Research
The goal of assessing psychosocial stress as a process and outcome in naturalistic (i.e., field) settings is applicable across the social, biological, and health sciences. Meaningful measurement of biology-in-context is, however, far from simple or straightforward. In this brief methods review, we introduce theoretical framings, methodological conventions, and ethical concerns around field-collection of markers of psychosocial stress that have em…
Use what you have
In mid-2021, the CommuniVax Alabama team broadened their community engagement by partnering with the Chamber of Commerce, the Alabama Department of Public Health, and others to bring vaccines to the workplace. Through this collaboration, the team hoped to fortify the state's persistently anemic rate of vaccination. The goals of increasing access to, and convenience of COVID-19 vaccination were only partially achieved due to human resource and pol…
All's Well That Ends Well
Farmers markets are inextricably tied to local politics, culture, and individual feelings and behaviors about food and community. Just as the farmers market can be a site for community integration and bonding, it can also be a site of contention-especially when long-standing traditions are threatened. When city planners in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, decided to relocate the modest but long-established farmers market to a new indoor facility along the re…
Who Will Be Served? Farmers Market Variability and the Expectations of Young Adults
The number of farmers markets in the United States has increased rapidly over the past decade. The emergence of trendier markets puts pressure on cities to rehabilitate their traditional markets to compete. When considering any new community enterprise, it is imperative to gather knowledge on the needs, wants, and extent of the potential customer base in order to shape it to local realities. While much has been said about the elitist nature of al…
Time in the United States and diabetes among Mexican immigrant women
Mexican immigrants in the U.S. show high incidence of type 2 diabetes, and increased risk is associated with longer duration of residency. This study considers the impact of culture over time for Mexican immigrant women in a southern U.S. city. Using cultural consensus analysis to empirically derive the substance and structure of a cultural model for la buena vida (the good life) among Mexican immigrant women in Birmingham, Alabama, we assess the…
La Buena Vida
Mexican immigrant women come to the United States in pursuit of what they call la buena vida (the good life) for themselves and for their children. The research described here attempts to better understand what la buena vida means to these women in terms of what they perceive as necessary to achieve this ideal. While the theoretical construct of acculturation is typically used to study what happens to individuals transitioning from one cultural o…
Some Symbolic Dimensions of Andean Materia Medica
Therapeutic healing symbols should be recognized as being embedded in and arising from a cultural context, which both specialists and nonspecialists then draw upon in treating the sick. The symbolic aspects of material features of medical systems have been discussed in reference to biomedicine, but little discussion has been devoted to these symbolic dimensions of traditional medical systems. Ethnographic data from an Andean hamlet in Northern Pe…
Communication in a chiropractic clinic
Health Care Decisions of Households in Economic Crisis
In the study of medical decision-making, health care costs have perhaps received the greatest share of attention by researchers. This article illustrates an Andean pattern of medical treatment choice and how it changed when household resources suddenly became scarce during an economic crisis. With the economic downturn, highlanders did not revert from biomedical to traditional care, but continued to use each in lesser quantities, focusing their r…
Abstracts & Reviews
Assessing variation in health status in the Andes
Sponsored by
Debilidad
Northern Peruvian highlanders complain of debilidad to express an embodied exhaustion resulting from a lifelong accumulation of productive and reproductive stresses. This study uses a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods and a political-economic and materialistinformed biocultural approach to explore this "women's illness " and why is also experienced by men and children. Eighty-two percent of cases of debilidad occur in the househ…
Seeking Early Care
This exploratory study investigates the role of social support in the initiation of prenatal care by analyzing data from interviews with 36 pregnant women at a public health facility in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. A systematic sample of U.S.-born women aged 19 to 34 who initiated care in each of the three trimesters was interviewed. After controlling for age and education, three variables were found to be associated with earlier estimated gestational ag…
Social Status and Food Preference in Southern Brazil
The prestige value of food and food behaviors is a topic of inquiry that complements the study of nutritional aspects of food use. In this work, varying social groups in Brazil are examined with regard to their evaluation of the status of available foods, and in turn, the frequencies with which they consume high and low status foods. Ethnographic and structured interviews were used to collect data, with agreement among groups tested by using Cult…
Eating, drinking and being depressed
Race and Ethnicity in Public Health Research
The description and explanation of racial and ethnic health disparities are major initiatives of the public health research establishment. Black Americans suffer on nearly every measure of health in relation to white Americans. Five theoretical models have been proposed to explain these disparities: a racial-genetic model, a health-behavior model, a socioeconomic status model, a psychosocial stress model, and a structural-constructivist model. We…
Give Me Shelter
Domestic violence is a growing public health concern in the United States. Research to date has focused more on why women stay in abusive relationships than on factors influencing their leaving. The work presented here explores the social structural connections between culturally defined social events and the timing of entry into the shelter system. Handwerker's (1996) taxonomy of the causal theories of domestic violence is used and expanded upon…
Cultural consonance and adult body composition in urban Brazil
In previous research in Brazil, we found socioeconomic and gender differences in body mass and percent body fat, consistent with a model in which individuals in higher socioeconomic strata, especially women, could achieve a cultural ideal of body size and shape. In this article, using new data, we examine these processes more precisely using measures of cultural consonance. Cultural consonance refers to the degree to which individuals approximate…
Reflections on Teaching SCRM
Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation William Dressler, Kathryn Oths; Reflections on Teaching SCRM: Survey Research Methods in Anthropology. Practicing Anthropology 1 January 2008; 30 (1): 40–41. doi: https://doi.org/10.17730/praa.30.1.7331n0gu840t4265 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) R…
Intracultural Diversity in Food Knowledge in Southern Brazil
This research explores the social distribution of food knowledge in Ribeirão Preto, a city in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. Through an analysis of the distribution of individual expertise in regard to the cultural model of food along the dimensions of healthfulness, practicality, and prestige, this research demonstrates that knowledge of the cultural model of food is most strongly shared in the upper class of the city. Qualitative and quantitat…
How culture shapes the body
OBJECTIVES: The aim of this article is to develop a model of how culture shapes the body, based on two studies conducted in urban Brazil. METHODS: Research was conducted in 1991 and 2001 in four socioeconomically distinct neighborhoods. First, cultural domain analyses were conducted with samples of key informants. The cultural domains investigated included lifestyle, social support, family life, national identity, and food. Cultural consensus ana…
Chestnuts and Spring Chickens
The taxonomy of farmers markets requires an update to encompass the expanding range of available options. Also absent from the literature is an appreciation of the connection between market types, ideological stances, social characteristics, and conflict-necessary for understanding the social processes, motivations, and expectations that create a farmers market. Our study of a long-standing farmers market on the verge of municipal revamping aims …
Who Will Be Served? Farmers Market Variability and the Expectations of Young Adults
The number of farmers markets in the United States has increased rapidly over the past decade. The emergence of trendier markets puts pressure on cities to rehabilitate their traditional markets to compete. When considering any new community enterprise, it is imperative to gather knowledge on the needs, wants, and extent of the potential customer base in order to shape it to local realities. While much has been said about the elitist nature of al…
A decade of rapid change
OBJECTIVES: In the past decade many areas of Peru have been undergoing extreme environmental, economic, and cultural change. In the highland hamlet of Chugurpampa, La Libertad, climate change has ruined harvests and led to frequent periods of migration to the coast in search of livelihood. This biocultural research examines how the changes could be affecting the growth of children who maintain residence in the highlands. METHODS: Clinical records…
All's Well That Ends Well
Farmers markets are inextricably tied to local politics, culture, and individual feelings and behaviors about food and community. Just as the farmers market can be a site for community integration and bonding, it can also be a site of contention-especially when long-standing traditions are threatened. When city planners in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, decided to relocate the modest but long-established farmers market to a new indoor facility along the re…
La Buena Vida
Mexican immigrant women come to the United States in pursuit of what they call la buena vida (the good life) for themselves and for their children. The research described here attempts to better understand what la buena vida means to these women in terms of what they perceive as necessary to achieve this ideal. While the theoretical construct of acculturation is typically used to study what happens to individuals transitioning from one cultural o…
Biocultural Strategies for Measuring Psychosocial Stress Outcomes in Field-based Research
The goal of assessing psychosocial stress as a process and outcome in naturalistic (i.e., field) settings is applicable across the social, biological, and health sciences. Meaningful measurement of biology-in-context is, however, far from simple or straightforward. In this brief methods review, we introduce theoretical framings, methodological conventions, and ethical concerns around field-collection of markers of psychosocial stress that have em…
Age at Arrival and Depression among Mexican Immigrant Women in Alabama
Mexican-born women in the U.S. are at high risk of depression. While acculturation is the primary analytical framework used to study immigrant mental health, this research suffers from (1) a lack of specificity regarding how cultural models of living and being take shape among migrants converging in new destinations in the U.S., and (2) methods to empirically capture the impact of cultural positioning on individual health outcomes. Instead of rel…
Cultural Consonance in Food Consumption and Nutrient Intake in Southern Brazil
Culture influences food consumption and nutrient intake. In this paper we present a new approach in research, examining how knowledge and understanding of food is encoded in cultural models. The degree to which individuals match these shared models in their own consumption patterns is then measured, using the concept of cultural consonance. In research conducted in urban Brazil, the configuration of cultural models of food, and the association of…
Time in the United States and diabetes among Mexican immigrant women
Mexican immigrants in the U.S. show high incidence of type 2 diabetes, and increased risk is associated with longer duration of residency. This study considers the impact of culture over time for Mexican immigrant women in a southern U.S. city. Using cultural consensus analysis to empirically derive the substance and structure of a cultural model for la buena vida (the good life) among Mexican immigrant women in Birmingham, Alabama, we assess the…
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