Andrea S Wiley
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 97874 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Andrea S Wiley |
| PRENOMES | Andrea S |
| SOBRENOME | Wiley |
| ASSINATURA | WILEY A S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | James Madison University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4931-0715 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 47 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 113 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 44 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 3 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1992 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Silicone Wristbands for Measuring Human Exposure to Organic Chemicals
Increasing human exposure to environmental contaminants is a growing concern and has become an important factor within human biological variation and health outcomes. Yet, traditional exposure assessment methods are often limited in their ability to capture the complexity and variation of chemical exposure, or are invasive, costly, and challenging to apply in field-based research. Here, we introduce silicone wristbands as an innovative and noninv…
Biocultural Approaches in the Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition
On the occasion of SAFN's 50th anniversary I reflect on the development of biocultural and human evolutionary approaches to human diet and nutrition. I maintain that SAFN and its predecessors the Committee (1974–1987) and then Council on Nutritional Anthropology (1987–2004) have modeled, fostered, and advanced biocultural work in anthropology in a way that is unique within the broader field of anthropology. At the risk of being trite, the phrase …
Biological Normalcy
Contesting ideas about what is "normal" human behavior or biology is a core contribution of anthropology. In efforts to provide more inclusive views of what it means to be human, anthropologists challenge judgments about diverse ways of being, which include assumptions about what it means to be normal. Meanings of the term normal encompass the descriptive (statistical) and the evaluative (normative), i.e., judgments about a given characteristic. …
Mind the gap
Training in anthropology and evolutionary science ideally prepares scholars to recognize and challenge culturally grounded views of human variation. But upon inspection we find that idealized, and thus perhaps biased, conceptualizations of what is “normal” continue to permeate evaluations of human biology and behaviors. Each of the 13 contributions in this special issue on biological normalcy tackles these concerns as they pertain to some univers…
Pearl lecture
Biological normalcy is a new analytical framework for understanding the bi-directional relationships between the biology of populations and cultural norms. Populations are characterized by statistical distributions-that is, measures of central tendency and variance-for biological traits, and these co-exist in societies with ideas about what constitutes "normal" human bodies, that is, normative views about what bodies "should" be like. While stati…
Continuity and change in biocultural anthropology
Medical Anthropology Methods
Biocultural perspectives have a long history in medical anthropology as a means to advance our understanding of variation in health and disease across human populations. They are used when researchers seek to understand the complex, multidirectional relationships between culture and biology as these play out in the context of health and disease. As such, biocultural perspectives are frequently employed in holistic anthropological analyses. There …
Rethinking the starch digestion hypothesis for AMY1 copy number variation in humans
Alpha‐amylase exists across taxonomic kingdoms with a deep evolutionary history of gene duplications that resulted in several α‐amylase paralogs. Copy number variation (CNV) in the salivary α‐amylase gene ( AMY1 ) exists in many taxa, but among primates, humans appear to have higher average AMY1 copies than nonhuman primates. Additionally, AMY1 CNV in humans has been associated with starch content of diets, and one known function of α‐amylase is …
The Impacts of Dietary Change on Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Land Use, Water Use, and Health
Metabolic Living
Reviewed by: Metabolic Living: Food, Fat, and the Absorption of Illness in India by Harris Solomon Andrea S. Wiley Harris Solomon, Metabolic Living: Food, Fat, and the Absorption of Illness in India. Durham: Duke University Press, 2016. 304 pp. The global spread of “Western” diseases is widely documented, and India has emerged as a focal site for this trend, with rapidly rising rates of obesity, diabetes, and their comorbidities. These conditions…
What Do Anthropologists Mean When They Use the TermBiocultural
The term biocultural is often invoked as a unifying theme in a holistic vision of anthropology. To ascertain patterns in its use and meaning in current anthropological publications, we conducted a bibliometric review of the use of biocultural in AAA journals, Current Anthropology (CA), Annual Review of Anthropology (ARA), and in American Journal of Human Biology (AJHB) from 2000-2014. The term was found in 177 articles in the sample from AAA jour…
Wasted Food
The U.S. wastes 31 to 40% of its post-harvest food supply, with a substantial portion of this waste occurring at the consumer level. Globally, interventions to address wasted food have proliferated, but efforts are in their infancy in the U.S. To inform these efforts and provide baseline data to track change, we performed a survey of U.S. consumer awareness, attitudes and behaviors related to wasted food. The survey was administered online to mem…
Associations of Suboptimal Growth with All-Cause and Cause-Specific Mortality in Children under Five Years
BACKGROUND: Child undernutrition affects millions of children globally. We investigated associations between suboptimal growth and mortality by pooling large studies. METHODS: Pooled analysis involving children 1 week to 59 months old in 10 prospective studies in Africa, Asia and South America. Utilizing most recent measurements, we calculated weight-for-age, height/length-for-age and weight-for-height/length Z scores, applying 2006 WHO Standards…
Cow milk consumption, insulin‐like growth factor‐I, and human biology
Human biology eats
Assessing local food systems. Part 1
"Milk for "Growth
Whereas milk production and consumption and the genes that allow for milk digestion throughout life are strongly variable across populations, historically only a minority of human groups valued milk as an important component of local foodways. By the early 21st century, however, milk consumption has become globally normative, and a spectacular rise in intake has been documented in countries such as China and India. Meanwhile, in the United States…
Dairy and milk consumption and child growth
Humans are unique among mammals in that many consume cow's milk or other dairy products well beyond the traditional age of weaning. Milk provides various nutrients and bioactive molecules to support growth and development, and the question arises as to whether this dietary behavior influences growth parameters. There is evidence that milk makes positive contributions to growth in height, but its associations with other aspects of body size, such …
Consumption of milk, but not other dairy products, is associated with height among US preschool children in NHANES 1999–2002
Milk contributes positively to height among preschool children; this association was not found for non-milk dairy products
Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition
The Globalization of Cow's Milk Production and Consumption
Cow's milk consumption has been relatively rare in human history, largely confined to populations with genetic adaptations for continued production of lactase, the enzyme that breaks down the unique milk sugar lactose. But in the last forty years, both the production and consumption of cow's milk have spread around the world, and trade in milk products has likewise increased. Populations with no history of milk drinking have embraced this new bev…
Transforming Milk in a Global Economy
Large-scale milk production and consumption historically have been localized to Europe and countries with large European-derived populations. However, global patterns have now shifted, with dramatic increases in milk consumption in Asian countries and flat or declining consumption in European and European-derived countries. Efforts to market it around the world emphasize milk's positive effects on child growth, and, by extension, the individual a…
Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition
The Breakdown of Holism
A Review of “Liquid Materialities
The ascendance of fresh milk into a normative part of American and northern European diets is a particularly interesting issue in food history. Although milk products had long been a part of culina...
What Do Anthropologists Mean When They Use the TermBiocultural
The term biocultural is often invoked as a unifying theme in a holistic vision of anthropology. To ascertain patterns in its use and meaning in current anthropological publications, we conducted a bibliometric review of the use of biocultural in AAA journals, Current Anthropology (CA), Annual Review of Anthropology (ARA), and in American Journal of Human Biology (AJHB) from 2000-2014. The term was found in 177 articles in the sample from AAA jour…
Transforming Milk in a Global Economy
Large-scale milk production and consumption historically have been localized to Europe and countries with large European-derived populations. However, global patterns have now shifted, with dramatic increases in milk consumption in Asian countries and flat or declining consumption in European and European-derived countries. Efforts to market it around the world emphasize milk's positive effects on child growth, and, by extension, the individual a…
Neonatal size and infant mortality at high altitude in the western Himalaya
A prospective study was undertaken in Ladakh, India, a high‐altitude region of the Himalaya, to investigate the effects of small average birth size on neonatal mortality. While such studies exist from high‐altitude regions of the New World and shed light on the adaptive status of high‐altitude‐dwelling populations there, this is the first to examine this relationship in the Himalaya. In a sample of 168 newborns, birthweight and other anthropometr…
Drink Milk for Fitness
Cow's milk is accorded a high cultural value in the contemporary United States. Its white color, association with the maternal and the pastoral, and repeated mention in the Bible add positive symbolic weight to this major national agricultural commodity. Thus, it comes as no surprise that influential policy‐making institutions in the United States recommend milk consumption for all U.S. groups. This is despite variation in adult populations' abil…
Evolution, Adaptation, and the Role of Biocultural Medical Anthropology
Rethinking the starch digestion hypothesis for AMY1 copy number variation in humans
Alpha‐amylase exists across taxonomic kingdoms with a deep evolutionary history of gene duplications that resulted in several α‐amylase paralogs. Copy number variation (CNV) in the salivary α‐amylase gene ( AMY1 ) exists in many taxa, but among primates, humans appear to have higher average AMY1 copies than nonhuman primates. Additionally, AMY1 CNV in humans has been associated with starch content of diets, and one known function of α‐amylase is …
"Milk for "Growth
Whereas milk production and consumption and the genes that allow for milk digestion throughout life are strongly variable across populations, historically only a minority of human groups valued milk as an important component of local foodways. By the early 21st century, however, milk consumption has become globally normative, and a spectacular rise in intake has been documented in countries such as China and India. Meanwhile, in the United States…
Increasing use of prenatal care in Ladakh (India)
A Role for Biology in the Cultural Ecology of Ladakh
The Breakdown of Holism
Biological Normalcy
Contesting ideas about what is "normal" human behavior or biology is a core contribution of anthropology. In efforts to provide more inclusive views of what it means to be human, anthropologists challenge judgments about diverse ways of being, which include assumptions about what it means to be normal. Meanings of the term normal encompass the descriptive (statistical) and the evaluative (normative), i.e., judgments about a given characteristic. …
Demographic contexts and the adaptive role of mother-infant attachment
Adaptation and the Biocultural Paradigm in Medical Anthropology
Singer (1989a) recently critiqued biocultural studies in medical anthropology and concluded that adaptation was a virtually useless concept since it could not incorporate the role of social relations in explaining health‐related behavior. However, as I point out here, Singer's objections to biocultural research and the concept of adaptation in particular are founded on a misinterpretation of biocultural studies and need not lead to their dismissa…
Evolution, Adaptation, and the Role of Biocultural Medical Anthropology
Neonatal and maternal anthropometric characteristics in a high altitude population of the western Himalaya
A study of neonatal anthropometric characteristics was undertaken in Ladakh, India, a region comprising the western portion of the trans‐Himalayan plateau. The object was to better understand the dynamics of high altitude adaptation in the Himalaya. In a largely native sample of 168 women and their newborns, mean birth weight was 2,764 g, mean length was 48.02 cm, and mean Ponderal Index (PI) was 2.49. Female newborns were significantly lighter a…
Neonatal size and infant mortality at high altitude in the western Himalaya
A prospective study was undertaken in Ladakh, India, a high‐altitude region of the Himalaya, to investigate the effects of small average birth size on neonatal mortality. While such studies exist from high‐altitude regions of the New World and shed light on the adaptive status of high‐altitude‐dwelling populations there, this is the first to examine this relationship in the Himalaya. In a sample of 168 newborns, birthweight and other anthropometr…
Flexible Bodies
Why We Get Sick
Why We Get Sick: The New Science of Darwinian Medicine. Randolph M. Nesse and George C. Williams. New York: Times Books (cloth) and Vintage Books (paper), 1994. xi + 290 pp
A Role for Biology in the Cultural Ecology of Ladakh
The Ecology of Low Natural Fertility in Ladakh
The existence of very low rates of fertility among non-contracepting human populations has intrigued researchers in demography and reproductive ecology. Long inter-birth intervals, driven primarily by the lactational amenorrhoea associated with breast-feeding, have been shown to be important determinants of low natural fertility in several populations. Other reports have suggested that sterility brought about by sexually transmitted diseases (STD…
An alternative method for assessing early mortality in contemporary populations
Biological anthropologists are interested in a population's early mortality rates for a variety of reasons. Early mortality (infant or juvenile) is of obvious importance to those interested in demography, but early mortality statistics are useful for life history analysis, paleodemography, and human adaptability studies, among others. In general, the form of mortality statistics is derived from demography, where chronological age is the gold stan…
An alternative method for assessing early mortality in contemporary populations
Biological anthropologists are interested in a population's early mortality rates for a variety of reasons. Early mortality (infant or juvenile) is of obvious importance to those interested in demography, but early mortality statistics are useful for life history analysis, paleodemography, and human adaptability studies, among others. In general, the form of mortality statistics is derived from demography, where chronological age is the gold stan…
Demographic contexts and the adaptive role of mother-infant attachment
The Anthropology of Infectious Disease
The Anthropology of Infectious Disease: International Health Perspectives. MARCIA C. INHORN and PETER J. BROWN. eds. Amsterdam: Gordon and Breach Publishers, 1997. xv. 495 pp., contributors, index
Biosocial perspectives on children
Edited by Catherine Panter-Brick. New York: Cambridge University Press. 1998. 160 pp. ISBN 0-521-57595-8. $19.95 (paper).
Biosocial perspectives on children
Edited by Catherine Panter-Brick. New York: Cambridge University Press. 1998. 160 pp. ISBN 0-521-57595-8. $19.95 (paper)
Society for Medical Anthropology
The growth of humanity
Increasing use of prenatal care in Ladakh (India)
Drink Milk for Fitness
Cow's milk is accorded a high cultural value in the contemporary United States. Its white color, association with the maternal and the pastoral, and repeated mention in the Bible add positive symbolic weight to this major national agricultural commodity. Thus, it comes as no surprise that influential policy‐making institutions in the United States recommend milk consumption for all U.S. groups. This is despite variation in adult populations' abil…
Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition
Does milk make children grow? relationships between milk consumption and height in NHANES 1999-2002
In the United States, milk (usually cow's milk) is widely considered an "essential food" to support bone growth among post-weaning age children, as evident in government-sponsored nutrition policies that mandate milk for children. Milk contains calories, protein, and calcium, among other nutrients, and bioactive components such as insulin-like growth factor-I (IGF-I), all of which may facilitate bone growth. There is a large literature on milk an…
AAA Awards Holistic, Innovative and Engaged Anthropologists in 2005
Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition
The Breakdown of Holism
AAA Awards Engaged Scholars and Teachers of Anthropology
Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition
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