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Water Insecurity, Institutional Injustice and Emotional Distress in Cochabamba, Bolivia

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Biological, Social and Cultural Dimensions of Health

People living in the squatter settlements surrounding Cochabamba, Bolivia, struggle each and every day with the challenge of severe water insecurity, sometimes going for days without enough water to drink, cook with or bathe. To meet their water needs, they must navigate a complex set of local rules and norms about how people can access water, which emerges in the patchwork of water institutions, some market-based (such as commercial w

Publications: 

Wutich, A. (2009). Intrahousehold disparities in women and men's experiences of water insecurity and emotional distress in urban Bolivia. Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 23 (in press).

Hadley, C. & Wutich, A. (2009). Experience-based measures of food and water security: Biocultural approaches to grounded measures of insecurity. Human Organization, 68 (in press).

Wutich, A. (2009) Estimating Household Water Use: A Comparison of Diary, Prompted Recall, and Free Recall Methods. Field Methods, 21(1), 49-68.

Wutich, A. (2009). Water scarcity and the sustainability of a common pool resource institution in the urban Andes. Human Ecology, 37(2), 179-192.

Wutich, A. & Ragsdale, K. (2008). Water insecurity and emotional distress: Coping with supply, access, and seasonal variability of water in a Bolivian squatter settlement. Social Science & Medicine, 67, 2116-2125.

Team Members: 

  • Amber Wutich, Project Leader
  • Alexandra Brewis Slade

    • Cooperation, Social Networks and Global Health

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    Team Members: 

    Magdalena Hurtado, PI
    Marco Janssen, PI
    Gerardo Chowell-Puente, PI
    Kim Hill, PI

    Amanda VanSteelandt, assistant and student director
    Wilfredo Rodriquez, student director (Genomics)
    Jessica Lopez, student director (Global Health)
    Vijay Krishna Vemuri, assistant project development
    Marcel Hurtado, assistant project development
    Takao Sasaki
    Miran Bozicevic

    • Damon Apodaca (Spanish-Italian)
    • Cinthia Carvajal
    • Katlyn Couleur (Economics, Anthropology)
    • Alicia Dinsmore
    • Jennifer Grand (Global Health)
    • Danica Harvey (Spanish-Global Health)
    • Cristiane Hazelrigg (Global Health)
    • Mirna Hodzic (Global Health)
    • Kristen Kelley (Global Health)
    • Derek Laneback
    • Shawn Mallkind (Biology)
    • Ashley McCabe (Biology)
    • Michele Moreno (Psychology)
    • Melanie Newton
    • Annemarie Norgren (Mathematics)
    • Benjamin Rice (Global Health)
    • Daniel Sadoway
    • Matt Shaw
    • Michaela Staley (Global Health)
    • Claire Yee
    Funding Sources: 
    • Hurtado and Hill: Conservation International
    • Hurtado, Janssen and Chowell-Puente: Institute for Humanities Research Seed Grant
    • Chowell-Puente: World Health Organization, National Science Foundation (2 grants) and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
    • Janssen: National Science Foundation (4 grants)
    Partnerships: 
    • Native People and Tropical Conservation Fund
    • Centro Para el Desarrollo de Investigacion Cientifica, Asuncion, Paraguay
    • Fundacion moises bertoni, asuncion, paraguay
    • Ache Communities Health Council, Canindeyu Paraguay
    • Guyra Paraguay
    • Coordinating Office for Global Health CDC, Atlanta Georgia
    • Smithsonian Tropical Rresearch Institute, Bocas del Toro, Panama
    • People, Primates and Pathogens: The Evolution of a Global Emergency and the Future of Conservation and Public Health Efforts
    • The South Phoenix Collaborative: Leveraging Culture & History to Support Healthy, Resilient and Just Communities
    • Center for the Study of Institutional Diversity
    • Applied Math Program ASU
    • Global Health Student Association
    • Office for the Vice-President for Global Engagement

    Genetic History of Peru

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    Theme: 
    Human Origins, Evolution and Diversity

    Debate about the patterning of genetic diversity in human populations has centered on the importance of language, geography, and sex-biased gene flow, as well as the extent and origin of admixture. Because of the diversity of languages and environments, Peru is an ideal place to investigate these issues.

    Publications: 

    Lewis CM, Tito R, Lizarraga B, and Stone AC, (2005)
    Land, Language, and Loci: MtDNA in Native Americans and the Genetic History of Peru American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 

    Team Members: 
    • Anne C. Stone, SHESC
    • Beatriz Lizarraga, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos
    • Veronica Rubin de Celis Massa, Universidad Ricardo Palma
    • Graciela Cabana, NSF minority postdoctoral fellowship
    Funding Sources: 

    National Science Foundation (BCS-0401434)

    Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, and Universidad Ricardo Palma 

    Bioarchaeology of the Osmore Valley, Perú

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    Theme: 
    Biological, Social and Cultural Dimensions of Health

    This project focuses upon the social and biological dimensions of human change across time and through space. The context is the Osmore River valley of southern Perú. 

    Publications: 

    Jane E. Buikstra, ed. (1990)
    A Life in Science: Papers in Honor of J. Lawrence Angel. Author of two chapters: "Introduction" (with L. M. Hoshower) and "A Case of Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis from Pre-Columbian Peru" (with A. Poznanski, M.C. Lozada , P. Goldstein, and L. Leuschner). Biological Anthropology Unit of the American Anthropological Association, by the Center for American Archaeology.

    Maria Cecilia Lozada and Jane E. Buikstra (2002)
    El Señorío de Chiribaya en la Costa Sur del Perú. Instituto de Estudios Peruanos, Lima-Peru.

    Peter T. Bürgi, Sloan R. Williams, Jane E. Buikstra, Niki R. Clark, Maria Cecilia Lozada Cerna and Elva Torres Pino (1989)
    "Aspects of Mortuary Differentiation at the Site of Estuquiña, Southern Peru." In Ecology, Settlement and History in the Osmore Drainage. Don S. Rice and Charles Stanish, eds., BAR, Oxford. pp. 347-369.

    A.L.W. Springfield, Arthur C. Aufderheide, Jane E. Buikstra, and J. Ho (1993)
    "Cocaine and Metabolites in the Hair of Ancient Peruvian Coca Leaf Chewers." Forensic Science International  63:269-275.

    Wilmar L. Salo, Arthur C. Aufderheide, Jane E.Buikstra, and Todd A. Holcomb (1994)
    Identification of Mycobacterium tuberculosis DNA in a Pre-Columbian Peruvian Mummy. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 91:2091-2094.

    Larry W. Cartmell, Arthur C. Aufderheide, Angela Springfield, Jane E. Buikstra, Bernardo Arriaza, Cheryl Weems (1994)
    "Radioimmunoassay for Cocaine in Mummy Hair to Determine Antiquity and Demography of Coca Leaf Chewing Practices in Southern Peru and Northern Chile." Eres (Arqueología) 5 (1) 83-95.

    Etty Indriati and Jane E. Buikstra (2001)
    "Coca Chewing in Prehistoric Peru: Dental Evidence." American Journal of Physical Anthropology 114 (3) 242-257.

    Karl J. Reinhard, Jane E. Buikstra, and Arthur C. Aufderheide (2001)
    Diphyllobothriasis in Perhistoric Chile and Peru. University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

    Kelly Knudson, T. Douglas Price, Jane E. Buikstra, and Deborah Blom (2003)
    "The use of strontium and lead isotope analyses to investigate Tiwanaku migration and mortuary ritual in Boliva and Peru." Archaeometry.

    Karl J. Reinhard, and Jane E. Buikstra (2003)
    "Louse Infestation of the Chiribaya Culture, Southern Peru: Variation in Prevalence by Age and Sex." Memorias de Instituto Oswaldo Cruz 98 (Suppl. 1):173-179.

    Deborah E. Blom, Jane E. Buikstra, Linda Keng, Paula D. Tomczak, Eleanor Shoreman, Debbie Stevens-Tuttle (published online 2004)
    "Anemia and Childhood Mortality: Latitudinal Patterning Along the Coast of Pre-Columbian Peru." American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 127 (2): 152- 169.

    Maria C. Lozada, Deborah E.. Blom and Jane E. Buikstra (1997)
    The Practice of Artificial Deformation in Precolumbian Peru. El Chaski. Organo Periodistico de Peruvian Arts Society pp.7. 

    Team Members: 
    • Jane E. Buikstra
    • Maria Cecilia Lozada C.
    • Kelly Knudson
    • Karl Reinhard
    • Sloan Willians
    • Sonia Guillen
    • Cecil Lewis
    • Deborah Blom
    Funding Sources: 

    National Science Foundation
    Wenner-Gren
    University of Chicago

    Partnerships: 

    Museo Contisuyo
    Centro Mallqui
    University of Chicago 



    Ancient Tuberculosis in the Americas

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    Theme: 
    Biological, Social and Cultural Dimensions of Health

    Tuberculosis has afflicted human populations for millennia and remains a significant cause of morbidity and mortality in many parts of the world today. The evolutionary history of the disease, however, remains obscure, especially in the Western Hemisphere. Understanding this history can aid our understanding of the present affliction and help in predicting our co-evolutionary future with this persistent pathogen.

    Publications: 

    Buikstra JE, Wilbur AK. 2005. Tuberculosis in the Ancient Americas. Presentation at the 1st Paleopathology Association Meeting in South America, Rio de Janeiro Brazil, August 2005.

    Wilbur AK, Farnbach AW. 2005. Sensitivity of PCR Assays for Detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis: Implications for Ancient Disease Studies. 32nd Annual North American Meeting of the Paleopathology Association, Milwaukee WI, April 2005. 

    Team Members: 
    • Dr. Anne C. Stone, Principal Investigator
    • Dr. Jane E. Buikstra, Principal Investigator
    • Dr. Alicia K. Wilbur
    • Amy W. Farnbach
    • Dr. Noreen Tuross
    • Luz-Andrea Pfister
    Funding Sources: 

    Smithsonian Institution, George E. Burch Fellowship in Theoretical Medicine ($100,000) 
    National Science Foundation

    Partnerships: 

    Harvard University
    Smithsonian Institution 

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