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Thomas L. Leatherman
Researcher at University of South Carolina
Publications - 23
Citations - 1080
Thomas L. Leatherman is an academic researcher from University of South Carolina. The author has contributed to research in topics: Biological anthropology & Population. The author has an hindex of 14, co-authored 23 publications receiving 1013 citations.
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Building a New Biocultural Synthesis: Political-Economic Perspectives on Human Biology
TL;DR: Directly addressing earlier criticisms of biological anthropology, Building a New Biocultural Synthesis concerns how culture and political economy affect human biology and how biological consequences might then have further effects on cultural, social, and economic systems.
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Coca-colonization of diets in the Yucatan.
TL;DR: This paper addresses how macro-processes of change intersect locally with the commoditization of food systems, diets and nutrition in four Yucatec Mayan communities with differing relationships to the tourist economy.
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A Space of Vulnerability in Poverty and Health: Political‐Ecology and Biocultural Analysis
TL;DR: In this article, a political-ecological approach for biocultural analyses that synthesize per- spectives from anthropological political economy and those from ecological anthropology and human adaptability approaches is presented.
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Contributions of nutrition versus hypoxia to growth in rural Andean populations
TL;DR: Examination of patterns of diet and growth in the rural highland community of Nuñoa, Peru, and compares them to similar data collected on this community during the 1960s to discern critical determinants of growth variation is examined.
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Biocultural synthesis in medical anthropology
TL;DR: The lack of a biocultural integration has hindered the systematic analysis of health and disease in contemporary traditional and non-Western groups and an ecological model that addresses these problems will provide a biOCultural integration of the disease process.