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. 2015 Dec:19:51-61.
doi: 10.1016/j.ehb.2015.07.004. Epub 2015 Aug 2.

The Tsimane' Amazonian Panel Study (TAPS): Nine years (2002-2010) of annual data available to the public

William R Leonard  1 , Victoria Reyes-García  2 , Susan Tanner  3 , Asher Rosinger  4 , Alan Schultz  5 , Vincent Vadez  6 , Rebecca Zhang  7 , Ricardo Godoy  8
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The Tsimane' Amazonian Panel Study (TAPS): Nine years (2002-2010) of annual data available to the public

William R Leonard et al. Econ Hum Biol. 2015 Dec.

Abstract

This brief communication contains a description of the 2002-2010 annual panel collected by the Tsimane' Amazonian Panel Study team. The study took place among the Tsimane', a native Amazonian society of forager-horticulturalists. The team tracked a wide range of socio-economic and anthropometric variables from all residents (633 adults ≥16 years; 820 children) in 13 villages along the Maniqui River, Department of Beni. The panel is ideally suited to examine how market exposure and modernization affect the well-being of a highly autarkic population and to examine human growth in a non-Western rural setting.

Keywords: Acculturation; Anthropometry; Bolivia; Demography; Health.

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