J. Swenson and J.C. Domec are supported by Duke University. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.

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Gold mining in the Peruvian Amazon: global prices, deforestation, and mercury imports.

Darwinism and Human Affairs

Primitive Social Organization: An Evolutionary Perspective.

Recent research not only confirms the existence of substantial psychological variation around the globe but also highlights the peculiarity of many Western populations. We propose that part of this variation can be traced back to the action and diffusion of the Western Church, the branch of Christianity that evolved into the Roman Catholic Church. Specifically, we propose that the Western Church's transformation of European kinship, by promoting small, nuclear households, weak family ties, and residential mobility, fostered greater individualism, less conformity, and more impersonal prosociality. By combining data on 24 psychological outcomes with historical measures of both Church exposure and kinship, we find support for these ideas in a comprehensive array of analyses across countries, among European regions, and among individuals from different cultural backgrounds.

The Church, intensive kinship, and global psychological variation.

The prevalence of overweight and obesity is rapidly increasing among Latin American children, posing challenges for current healthcare systems and increasing the risk for a wide range of diseases. To understand the factors contributing to childhood obesity in Latin America, this paper reviews the current nutrition status and physical activity situation, the disparities between and within countries and the potential challenges for ensuring adequate nutrition and physical activity. Across the region, children face a dual burden of undernutrition and excess weight. While efforts to address undernutrition have made marked improvements, childhood obesity is on the rise as a result of diets that favour energy-dense, nutrient-poor foods and the adoption of a sedentary lifestyle. Over the last decade, changes in socioeconomic conditions, urbanization, retail foods and public transportation have all contributed to childhood obesity in the region. Additional research and research capacity are needed to address this growing epidemic, particularly with respect to designing, implementing and evaluating the impact of evidence-based obesity prevention interventions.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/obr.12571

Nutrition status of children in Latin America.

Postmarital residence patterns in traditional human societies figure prominently in models of hominid social evolution with arguments for patrilocal human bands similar in structure to female-dispersal systems in other African apes. However, considerable flexibility in hunter-gatherer cultures has led to their characterization as primarily multilocal. Horticulturalists are associated with larger, more sedentary social groups with more political inequality and intergroup conflict and may therefore provide additional insights into evolved human social structures. We analyze coresidence patterns of primary kin for 34 New World horticultural societies (6,833 adults living in 243 residential groupings) to show more uxorilocality (women live with more kin) than found for hunter-gatherers. Our findings further point to the uniqueness of human social structures and to considerable variation that is not fully described by traditional postmarital residence typologies. Sex biases in coresident kin can vary according...

https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/668867

Living with Kin in Lowland Horticultural Societies

Cuando los gobiernos divulgan documentos diplomaticos para su cuerpo legislativo, asi como tambien para la opinion publica, esas publicaciones suelen recibir el nombre de Blue Books. En esta oportunidad, los editores nos acercan documentos de este tipo nunca antes publicados en espanol, y ni siquiera compilados en una misma serie. Este libro es pues la primera traduccion completa al castellano de las cartas cruzadas entre el Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores britanico y sir Roger Casement m...

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International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs (IWGIA)/Centro Amazónico de Antropología y Aplicación Práctica (CAAAP) (eds), Libro Azul Británico: informes de Roger Casement y otras cartas sobre las atrocidades en el Putumayo . Lima, 2012

Se analiza la construccion de los diferentes discursos, miradas y representaciones en torno de los indigenas de la region amazonica boliviana durante el boom del caucho. Desde fines del siglo xix hasta las primeras decadas del siglo xx, las sociedades indigenas de esa zona mantuvieron relaciones ambivalentes (comercio, alianza, enfrentamientos belicos) con el frente colonizador. Sin embargo, las imagenes y representaciones sobre ellas no fueron estables ni homogeneas, puesto que araonas, cavinenos, pacaguaras, caripunas y chacobos fueron estereotipados de diversas maneras por sus observadores.

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Barbarie en plural: percepciones del indígena en el auge cauchero boliviano

A pesar de reunir ilustraciones magnificas, Imaginario e imagenes de la epoca del caucho… no es un libro de fotografias, tampoco un libro con fotografias, sino una investigacion sistematica sobre la imagineria del auge cauchero en la Amazonia peruana. Alberto Chirif y Manuel Cornejo Chaparro editan una serie de textos que cuenta con la participacion de Jean-Pierre Chaumeil, Juan Alvaro Echeverri y Maria Eugenia Yllia Miranda, ademas de la propia. Estas diversas colaboraciones se articulan sob...

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Chirif Alberto y Manuel Cornejo Chaparro (eds), Imaginario e imágenes de la época del caucho: los sucesos del Putumayo

Este libro fue escrito en 1992 como una tesis de licenciatura en historia para la Universidad de La Paz, Bolivia. Transcurridos quince anos, la autora publica una version ampliada y revisada de ese mismo estudio con el objetivo de explicar el complejo panorama socio-historico de la exportacion del caucho boliviano en el lapso que abarca desde 1870 hasta 1940: « El caucho, en efecto, ilustra con mucha elocuencia todas las deficiencias imputables al comportamiento de ciertas economias de export...

Lorena I. Córdoba

Papers

Living with Kin in Lowland Horticultural Societies

International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs (IWGIA)/Centro Amazónico de Antropología y Aplicación Práctica (CAAAP) (eds), Libro Azul Británico: informes de Roger Casement y otras cartas sobre las atrocidades en el Putumayo . Lima, 2012

Barbarie en plural: percepciones del indígena en el auge cauchero boliviano

Chirif Alberto y Manuel Cornejo Chaparro (eds), Imaginario e imágenes de la época del caucho: los sucesos del Putumayo

Gamarra Téllez María del Pilar, Amazonía Norte de Bolivia. Economía gomera (1870-1940). Bases económicas de un poder regional. La Casa Suárez