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100 1 _aWiley, Andrea S.,
_d1962-
_eauthor.
245 1 3 _aAn ecology of high-altitude infancy :
_ba biocultural perspective /
_cAndrea S. Wiley.
264 1 _aCambridge :
_bCambridge University Press,
_c2004.
300 _a1 online resource (xxii, 244 pages) :
_bdigital, PDF file(s).
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
490 1 _aCambridge studies in medical anthropology ;
_v12
500 _aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
520 _aAndrea Wiley investigates the ecological, historical, and socio-cultural factors that contribute to the peculiar pattern of infant mortality in Ladakh, a high-altitude region in the western Himalayas of India. Ladakhi newborns are extremely small at birth, smaller than those in other high-altitude populations, smaller still than those in sea level regions. Factors such as hypoxia, dietary patterns, the burden of women's work, gender, infectious diseases, seasonality, and use of local health resources all affect a newborn's birth weight and raise the likelihood of infant mortality. An Ecology of High-Altitude Infancy is unique in that it makes use of the methods of human biology but strongly emphasizes the ethnographic context that gives human biological measures their meaning. It is an example of a new genre of anthropological work: 'ethnographic human biology'.
650 0 _aMedical anthropology
_zIndia
_zLadākhc.
650 0 _aInfants
_xMortality
_zIndia
_zLadākhc.
650 0 _aAltitude, Influence of
_zIndia
_zLadākhc.
650 0 _aHuman ecology
_zIndia
_zLadākh.
651 0 _aLadākh (India)
_xEnvironmental conditions.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_z9780521830003
830 0 _aCambridge studies in medical anthropology ;
_v12.
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511610943
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