The Human Biology of Pastoral Populations

Name: The Human Biology of Pastoral Populations
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Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology

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Animal-herding (pastoralism) is a subsistence strategy that is practised by populations of low-producing ecosystems worldwide. Increasingly, it is vanishing due to land pressure and ecological degradation, particularly in the developing world. While previous books have examined the social, cultural and economic dimensions of the pastoral way of life, there has been little systematic examination of the biology and health of pastoral groups. The Human Biology of Pastoral Populations fills this gap by drawing together our knowledge of the biology, population structure and ecology of herding populations. It investigates how pastoral populations adapt to limited and variable food availability, the implications of the herding way of life for reproductive patterns, population structure and genetic diversity and the impacts of ongoing social and ecological changes on the health and well-being of these populations. This volume will be of broad interest to scholars in anthropology, human biology, genetics and demography.

Author Biography:

WILLIAM R. LEONARD is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Northwestern University, Illinois. He is a biological anthropologist whose research focusses heavily on aspects of physiology, nutrition and health. He has extensive fieldwork experience in Siberia and Latin America examining how human populations adapt to extreme environments. MICHAEL H. CRAWFORD is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Kansas. His research focuses on anthropological genetics particularly in populations in the Americas. He has also written The Origins of Native Americans (1998/ 2001), ISBNS 0521 592801 & 0521 004101, and edited Different Seasons: Biological Aging in Mennonites of Midwestern United States (2000).

Release date NZ

September 18th, 2008

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational

Contributors

Edited by Michael H. Crawford
Edited by William R. Leonard

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38 Tables, unspecified; 9 Halftones, unspecified; 55 Line drawings, unspecified

Pages

332

Series

Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology

Dimensions

155x235x18

ISBN-13

9780521081634

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2667637

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