Stable isotopes and selective forces: examples in biocultural and environmental anthropology

White, Christine D.; Longstaffe, Fred J.

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“…The biocultural approach has been particularly useful to elucidate the multiple factors that influence human health and well-being. Beginning with Livingstone's (1958) seminal work on the associations between agricultural patterns, population growth, the distribution of sickle cell gene in west Africa and the spread of malaria, biocultural approaches to elucidating disease dynamics have helped unpack the multiple complex interactions between ecological conditions, human biological responses, social, political and economic processes, and disease emergence and community health (Dressler, 1995;Katz & Schall, 1979;Leatherman & Goodman, 2020;White & Longstaffe, 2016). The biocultural lens provides a broad and integrative perspective into infectious disease ecology and this makes it a robust framework to employ in enquiries into the origins of contemporary zoonoses, pandemics, and infectious diseases (Hoke & Schell, 2020;Leatherman & Goodman, 2020).…”

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Primates and pandemics: A biocultural approach to understanding disease transmission in human and nonhuman primates

Radhakrishna

2022

American Journal of Biological Anthropology

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Investigations into zoonotic disease outbreaks have been largely epidemiological and microbiological, with the primary focus being one of disease control and management. Increasingly though, the human–animal interface has proven to be an important driver for the acquisition and transmission of pathogens in humans, and this requires syncretic bio‐socio‐cultural enquiries into the origins of disease emergence, for more efficacious interventions. A biocultural lens is imperative for the examination of primate‐related zoonoses, for the human‐primate interface is broad and multitudinous, involving both physical and indirect interactions that occur due to shared spaces and ecologies. I use the case example of a viral zoonotic epidemic that is currently endemic to India, the Kysanaur Forest Disease, to show how biocultural anthropology provides a broad and integrative perspective into infectious disease ecology and presents new insights into the determinants of disease outbreaks. Drawing on insights from epidemiology, political ecology, primate behavioral ecology and ethnoprimatology, this paper demonstrates how human‐primate interactions and shared ecologies impact infectious disease spread between human and nonhuman primate groups.

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Section: Conceptual and Methodological Approaches In Zoonotic Disease...mentioning

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Primates and pandemics: A biocultural approach to understanding disease transmission in human and nonhuman primates

Radhakrishna

2022

American Journal of Biological Anthropology

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“…Urbanism and industrialisation are likely to be focal points of future bioarchaeological research within these new frameworks. The near unique potential of isotope analyses to access the cultural, biological and environmental (White & Longstaffe 2016), and to broaden our understanding of past activities and culturally mediated ecological changes, places these approaches at the centre of future bioarchaeological research.…”

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A stable relationship: isotopes and bioarchaeology are in it for the long haul

Britton

2017

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Given their ubiquity in dietary reconstruction, it is fitting that the story of isotopes began with a conversation over dinner. Although coined in scientific literature by Frederick Soddy (1913), the word ‘isotope’ was first conceived by Margaret Todd, a medical doctor (also known as the novelist ‘Graham Travers’, and an all-round gender-stereotype-smasher of their age). In 1912, Soddy and Todd were attending a supper in Glasgow. When talk turned to work, Soddy described the then nameless concept of elements of different masses that occupy the same place in the periodic table. Todd suggested the term ‘isotope’, from the Greekisos(‘same’) +topos(‘place’), and the name stuck (Nicol 1957; Nagel 1982).

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Stable isotopes and selective forces: examples in biocultural and environmental anthropology

Cited by 2 publications

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Primates and pandemics: A biocultural approach to understanding disease transmission in human and nonhuman primates

Primates and pandemics: A biocultural approach to understanding disease transmission in human and nonhuman primates

A stable relationship: isotopes and bioarchaeology are in it for the long haul

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