J. Ulijaszek / Simon Strickland (eds.)

Seasonality and Human Ecology

Herausgeber: Strickland, S. S.; Ulijaszek, Stanley J.; Ulijaszek, S. J.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Seasonality has effects on a wide range of human functions and activities, and is important in the understanding of human-environment relationships. In this volume, distinguished contributors including human biologists, anthropologists, physiologists and nutritionists consider many of the different ways in which seasonality influences human biology and behaviour. Topics addressed include the influence of seasonality on hominid evolution, seasonal climatic effects on human physiology, fertility and physical growth, seasonality in morbidity, mortality and nutritional state, and seasonal factors in food production, modernisation and work organisation in third world economies. This book will be of interest to graduate students and researchers in human biology, anthropology and nutrition.

Table of contents:
1. Introduction; 2. Seasonality and human biology; 3. The influence of seasonality on hominid evolution; 4. Environmental temperature and physiological function; 5. Physiological responses to variations in daylength; 6. Seasonality and fertility; 7. Seasonality of reproductive performance in rural Gambia; 8. Seasonal effects on physical growth and development; 9. Seasonal variation in the birth prevalence of polygenic multifactorial diseases; 10. Environment, season and infection; 11. Seasonal mortality in the elderly; 12. Nutritional seasonality: the dimensions of the problem; 13. Seasonal variation in nutritional status of adults and children in rural Senegal; 14. Culture, seasons and stress in two traditional African cultures (Massa Mussey); 15. Agriculture, modernisation and seasonality; 16. Seasonal organisation of work patterns; Index.

Seasonality has effects on a wide range of human functions and activities. This book examines the effects of climatic and human-made seasonality on a range of functions and activities, including hominid evolution, human physiology, fertility and physical growth, death, disease, food and nutrition.

This volume examines the effect of climatic and human-made seasonality on human biology and behaviour.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. März 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 586g
• ISBN-13: 9780521431477
• ISBN-10: 0521431476
• Artikelnr.: 21355002

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction S. J. Ulijaszek and S. S. Strickland; 2. Seasonality and
human biology Francis E. Johnston; 3. The influence of seasonality on
hominid evolution R. A. Foley; 4. Environmental temperature and
physiological function M. A. Stroud; 5. Physiological responses to
variations in daylength D. L. Ingram and M. J. Dauncey; 6. Seasonality and
fertility Lyliane Rosetta; 7. Seasonality of reproductive performance in
rural Gambia Stanley J. Ulijaszek; 8. Seasonal effects on physical growth
and development T. J. Cole; 9. Seasonal variation in the birth prevalence
of polygenic multifactorial diseases A. H. Bittles and L. Sanz; 10.
Environment, season and infection Andrew Tomkins; 11. Seasonal mortality in
the elderly K. J. Collins; 12. Nutritional seasonality: the dimensions of
the problem Anna Ferro-Luzzi and Francesco Branca; 13. Seasonal variation
in nutritional status of adults and children in rural Senegal Kirsten B.
Simondon, Eric Benefice, Francois Simondon, Valerie Delaunay and Anouch
Chahnzarin; 14. Culture, seasons and stress in two traditional African
cultures (Massa Mussey) Igor de Garine; 15. Agriculture, modernisation and
seasonality Rebecca A. Huss-Ashmore; 16. Seasonal organisation of work
patterns C. Panter-Brick.