Ana Magdalena Hurtado
Professor
Ph.D., Anthropology & Epidemiology, University of Utah
SHESC Themes: Biological, Social and Cultural Dimensions of Human Health, Culture, Heritage and Identity; Human Origins, Evolution and Diversity
Field Specializations: Anthropology, Asthma, Behavioral Ecology and Life History Theory, Biological Anthropology, Emerging Diseases, Epidemiology, Global Health, Host-Pathogen Coevolution, Human Development, Human Reproductive Ecology, Human Rights, Hunter-Gatherers, Indigenous Peoples of South America, Menopause, the Origins of the Sexual Division of Labor, Phenotypic Evolution, Public Health, Tuberculosis, Research Design and Biostatistics, Zoonotic Diseases
Regional Focus: South America
Contact: Ana Magdalena Hurtado, SHESC 229
Research:
Ana Magdalena Hurtado is a human evolutionary ecologist. She has conducted extensive fieldwork in South America and is especially well known for her in-depth work with the hunter-gatherer Ache people of Paraguay.
Teaching:
Hurtado has taught both graduate- and undergraduate-level courses ranging from human evolution and emergence to epidemiological anthropology. Prior to her arrival at ASU, she was an associate professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of New Mexico. She has additional teaching experience at Emory University, the University of Michigan and the University of Utah.
Select Publications:
Hill, K., Barton, M. & Hurtado, A. M. (2009). The emergence of human uniqueness: Characters underlying behavioral modernity. Evolutionary Anthropology, 18(5), 187-200.
Hurtado, A., Frey, M., Hill, K., Hurtado, I. & Baker, J. (2008). The role of helminthes in human evolution: Implications for global health in the 21st century. In S. Elton and P. O'Higgins (Eds.), Medicine and evolution: Current applications, future prospects. New York: Taylor and Francis.
Hurtado, A. M., Lambourne, C. A., Hill, K. & Kessler, K. (2006). The public health implications of maternal care trade-offs. Human Nature, 17(2), 129-154.
Hurtado, A. M., Lambourne, C. A., James, P., Hill, K., Cheman, K. & Baca, K. (2005). Human rights, biomedical science and infectious diseases among South American indigenous groups. Annual Review of Anthropology, 34, 639-665.
Hurtado, A. M., Hill, K. R., Rosenblatt, W., Bender, J. & Scharmen, T. (2003), Longitudinal study of tuberculosis outcomes among immunologically naïve Aché natives of Paraguay. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 121(2), 134-150.
Hurtado, A. M., Hurtado, I. & Hill. (2003). Chapter 9, Public health and adaptive immunity among natives of South America. In F. Salzano & A. M. Hurtado (Eds.), Lost paradises and the ethics of research and publication (pp. 164-192). New York: Oxford University Press.
Hurtado, A. M., Arenas de Hurtado, I., Hill, K. & Rodriguez, S. (1997). The evolutionary ecology of chronic allergic conditions: The Hiwi of Venezuela. Human Nature, 8(1), 51-75.
Hill, K. R. & Hurtado, A. M. (1996). Aché life history. New York: Aldine de Gruyter.
Hurtado, A. M., Hill, K. R. & Hurtado, I. (1992). Tradeoffs between female food acquisition and child care among Hiwi and Aché foragers. Human Nature, 3(3), 185-216.
Hurtado, A. M. & Hill, K. R. (1990). Seasonality in a foraging society: Variation in diet, work effort, fertility and sexual division of labor among the Hiwi of Venezuela. Journal of Anthropological Research, 46(3), 293-345.
