The Aymara : Strategies in Human Adaptation to a Rigorous Environment / edited by William J. Schull, Francisco Rothhammer.
South America's Andean highlands have seen the rise and decline of several impressive, indigenous civilizations. Separated somewhat in time and place, each developed its distinctive socio-cultural accouterments but all shared a need to adjust to the individual, societal and environmental limita...
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1990.
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Table of Contents:
- 1: Introduction: The place and the study
- 2: Flora and fauna
- 3: Trace metals
- 4: The Aymará: An outline of their pre and post-Columbian history
- 5: Paleopathology
- 6: Nutritional characteristics of the Aymará of northern Chile
- 7: The Chilean Aymará and their reproductive patterns
- 8: Ecologic determinants of the health of Aymará children
- 9: Disease and disability among the Aymará
- 10: Heterozygosity and physical growth in an Andean population
- 11: Hearing and hypoxia among the Aymará
- 12: Altitude and cardiopulmonary relationships
- 13: Oral characteristics of the Aymará
- 14: Intratribal genetic differentiation as assessed through electrophoresis
- 15: Ethnogenesis and affinities to other South American aboriginal populations
- 16: Epilogue
- References
- Multinational Andean Genetic and Health Program Publications.