Chapter 1 - Introduction
Chapter 2 - The thin broken line: History, society, and the environment on the Yucatan Peninsula
Part I: Living conditions and human biology
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 - Association between early developmental stress, as evidenced by linear enamel hypoplasias (LEHs), and body composition during adolescence in agricultural populations with different access to store foods and gendered activity patterns
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
Part II: Human ecology from a bioarchaeological perspective
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 Merida, Yucatan, Mexico Part III: Environment and health
Chapter 14 - Health and wellbeing 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
About the Author: Hugo Azcorra is a human biologist working in the the Department of Human Ecology at the Center for Research and Advanced Studies of the National Polytechnic Institute in Merida, Mexico (Cinvestav-Merida). He is interested in the biology of populations during early stages of growth and development and how biological conditions are shaped by environmental factors and intergenerational influences. The most of his research have been focused on how chronic adverse living conditions experienced by Mayan populations from Yucatan have impacted their biological conditions.
Federico Dickinson is a Mexican biological anthropologist and human ecologist with a Sc.D. from the Polish Academy of Sciences. Dr. Dickinson is the founder of the Department of Human Ecology at the Center for Research and Advanced Studies of the National Polytechnic Institute in Merida, Mexico (Cinvestav-Merida), where he has developed his research lines on human growth in the last 33 years.
