Culture, Environment and Health in the Yucatan Peninsula

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 The Thin Broken Line. History, Society, and the Environment on the Yucatan Peninsula

Chapter 3 Globalization and Children’s Diets: The Case of Yucatan, Mexico

Chapter 4 Growth Stunting and Low Height-for-Age in the Yucatan Peninsula

Chapter 5 The Urban Maya from Yucatan; Dealing with the Biological Burden of the Past and a Degenerative Present

Chapter 6 A Critical Biocultural Perspective on Tourism and the Nutrition Transition in the Yucatan

Chapter 7 Effect of Salaried Work in Cities and Commercial Agriculture on Natural Fertility in Rural Maya Women from the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico

Chapter 8 Agricultural Transformation and Ontogeny in Rural Populations from the Yucatan Peninsula at the turn of the Century: Studying Linear Enamel Hypoplasias and Body Composition in Adolescents

Chapter 9 Hydration, Lactation, and Child Health Outcomes in Yucatec Maya

Chapter 10 Patterns of Activity and Somatic Symptoms Among Urban and Rural Women at Midlife in the State of Campeche, Mexico

Chapter 11 Environmental and Cultural Stressors in the Coastal Northern Maya Lowlands in Pre-Hispanic Times

Chapter 12 History of Health and Life of Pre-Hispanic Maya Through Their Skeletal Remains

Chapter 13 Crossing the Threshold of Modern Life: Comparing Disease Patterns Between Two Documented Urban Cemetery Series from the City of Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico

Chapter 14 Health and Well-being in the Yucatan Peninsula Revisited with a Human Ecology Perspective

Chapter 15 Hair Mercury Content in an Adult Population of Merida, Yucatan, Mexico, as a Function of Anthropometric Measures and Seafood Consumption

Chapter 16 Tackling Exposure to Chagas Disease in the Yucatan from a Human Ecology Perspective

Chapter 17 Conclusions