Health Change in the Asia-Pacific Region

Health Change in the Asia-Pacific Region
Author: Ryūtarō Ōtsuka
Publisher:
Total Pages: 313
Release: 2007-05-24
Genre: Health transition
ISBN: 9780511284939

A cohesive volume discussing health changes in the Asia-Pacific region over the last 20 years.

Peoples of the Pacific

Peoples of the Pacific
Author: Paul D'Arcy
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 606
Release: 2017-05-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 1351912259

Presenting the history of the inhabitants of the Pacific Islands from first colonization until the spread of European colonial rule in the later 19th century, this volume focuses specifically on Pacific Islander-European interactions from the perspective of Pacific Islanders themselves. A number of recorded traditions are reproduced as well as articles by Pacific Island scholars working within the academy. The nature of Pacific History as a sub-discipline is presented through a sample of key articles from the 1890s until the present that represent the historical evolution of the field and its multidisciplinary nature. The volume reflects on how the indigenous inhabitants of the Pacific Islands have a history as dynamic and complex as that of literate societies, and one that is more retrievable through multidisciplinary approaches than often realized.

Reproduction and Adaptation

Reproduction and Adaptation
Author: C. G. Nicholas Mascie-Taylor
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 293
Release: 2011-01-13
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1139494309

In the space of one generation major changes have begun to take place in the field of human reproduction. A rapid increase in the control of fertility and the understanding and treatment of sexual health issues have been accompanied by an emerging threat to reproductive function linked to increasing environmental pollution and dramatic changes in lifestyle. Organised around four key themes, this book provides a valuable review of some of the most important recent findings in human reproductive ecology. Major topics include the impact of the environment on reproduction, the role of physical activity and energetics in regulating reproduction, sexual maturation and ovulation assessment and demographic, health and family planning issues. Both theoretical and practical issues are covered, including the evolution and importance of the menopause and the various statistical methods by which researchers can analyse characteristics of the menstrual cycle in field studies.

Evolving Human Nutrition

Evolving Human Nutrition
Author: Stanley J. Ulijaszek
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 415
Release: 2012-10-18
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1139788965

While most of us live our lives according to the working week, we did not evolve to be bound by industrial schedules, nor did the food we eat. Despite this, we eat the products of industrialization and often suffer as a consequence. This book considers aspects of changing human nutrition from evolutionary and social perspectives. It considers what a 'natural' human diet might be, how it has been shaped across evolutionary time and how we have adapted to changing food availability. The transition from hunter-gatherer and the rise of agriculture through to the industrialisation and globalisation of diet are explored. Far from being adapted to a 'Stone Age' diet, humans can consume a vast range of foodstuffs. However, being able to eat anything does not mean that we should eat everything, and therefore engagement with the evolutionary underpinnings of diet and factors influencing it are key to better public health practice.

Bioarchaeological and Forensic Perspectives on Violence

Bioarchaeological and Forensic Perspectives on Violence
Author: American Association of Physical Anthropologists. Annual meeting
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 343
Release: 2014-03-13
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1107045444

Case studies on violent deaths from the past and present vividly illustrate how anthropologists construct meaning from the victim's bones.

Monkeys on the Edge

Monkeys on the Edge
Author: Agustín Fuentes
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 381
Release: 2011-04-14
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1139500414

Long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis) have a wide geographical distribution and extensively overlap with human societies across southeast Asia, regularly utilizing the edges of secondary forest and inhabiting numerous anthropogenic environments, including temple grounds, cities and farmlands. Yet despite their apparent ubiquity across the region, there are striking gaps in our understanding of long-tailed macaque population ecology. This timely volume, a key resource for primatologists, anthropologists and conservationists, underlines the urgent need for comprehensive population studies on common macaques. Providing the first detailed look at research on this underexplored species, it unveils what is currently known about the population of M. fascicularis, explores the contexts and consequences of human-macaque sympatry and discusses the innovative programs being initiated to resolve human-macaque conflict across Asia. Spread throughout the book are boxed case studies that supplement the chapters and give a valuable insight into specific field studies on wild M. fascicularis populations.

Health Change in the Asia-Pacific Region

Health Change in the Asia-Pacific Region
Author: Ryutaro Ohtsuka
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 303
Release: 2007-05-24
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1139463748

The Asia-Pacific region has seen great social, environmental and economic change across the past century, leading to dramatic changes in the health profiles of all populations represented in South East and East Asia, Pacific Islands and the islands of Melanesia. This volume considers evidence concerning prehistoric migration, and colonial, regional and global processes in the production of health change in the Asia-Pacific region. Notably, it examines ways in which a health pattern dominated by under-nutrition and infection has been displaced in many ways, and is being displaced elsewhere by over-nutrition and the degenerative diseases associated with it. This book presents a cohesive view of the ways in which exchange relationships, economic modernization, migration and transnational linkages interact with changing rural subsistence ecologies to influence health patterns in this region.

Evolutionary Biology and Conservation of Titis, Sakis and Uacaris

Evolutionary Biology and Conservation of Titis, Sakis and Uacaris
Author: Liza M. Veiga
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 423
Release: 2013-04-11
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1107354684

The neotropical primate family Pitheciidae consists of four genera Cacajao (uacaris), Callicebus (titis), Chiropotes (bearded sakis) and Pithecia (sakis), whose 40+ species display a range of sizes, social organisations, ecologies and habitats. Few are well known and the future survival of many is threatened, yet pitheciines have been little studied. This book is the first to review the biology of this fascinating and diverse group in full. It includes fossil history, reviews of the biology of each genus and, among others, specific treatments of vocalisations and foraging ecology. These studies are integrated into considerations of current status and future conservation requirements on a country-by-country basis for each species. A state-of-the-art summary of current knowledge, Evolutionary Biology and Conservation of Titis, Sakis and Uacaris is a collective effort from all the major researchers currently working on these remarkable animals.

Anthropological Perspectives on Tooth Morphology

Anthropological Perspectives on Tooth Morphology
Author: G. Richard Scott
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 575
Release: 2013-02-21
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1107011450

This follow-up to The Anthropology of Modern Human Teeth puts methods to use in interpreting human origins and affinities.

The Monkeys of Stormy Mountain

The Monkeys of Stormy Mountain
Author: Jean-Baptiste Leca
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 517
Release: 2012-01-19
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0521761859

Reviews the most important topics in current primatology using research on the long-studied Arashiyama population of Japanese macaques.