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Paperback An Ecology of High-Altitude Infancy: A Biocultural Perspective Book

ISBN: 0521536820

ISBN13: 9780521536820

An Ecology of High-Altitude Infancy: A Biocultural Perspective

(Part of the Cambridge Studies in Medical Anthropology Series)

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Highlighting the roles of ecology, culture, history, and political economy, this book considers how the unique mountain ecology and socio-cultural patterns of the Himalayan region of Ladakh contribute to a peculiar pattern of infant mortality. It stresses the burdens of women's work in this region as crucial to birth outcome. An example of a new genre of anthropological work called ethnographic human biology, this study utilizes the methodology of...

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