Victoria Reyes-García

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Country: Spain

Publications

  1. ncbi Social rank and adult male nutritional status: evidence of the social gradient in health from a foraging-farming society
    Victoria Reyes-García
    Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Institut de Ciencia i Tecnologia Ambientals, Facultat de Ciencies, Bellaterra 08193, Spain
    Soc Sci Med 67:2107-15. 2008
  2. ncbi Inequality in social rank and adult nutritional status: evidence from a small-scale society in the Bolivian Amazon
    Victoria Reyes-García
    ICREA and Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, 08193 Bellatera, Barcelona, Spain
    Soc Sci Med 69:571-8. 2009
  3. ncbi Cultural consonance and psychological well-being. Estimates using longitudinal data from an Amazonian society
    Victoria Reyes-García
    ICREA and Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, 08193 Bellatera, Barcelona, Spain
    Cult Med Psychiatry 34:186-203. 2010
  4. ncbi Cultural consonance and body morphology: estimates with longitudinal data from an Amazonian society
    Victoria Reyes-García
    ICREA and Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, 08193 Bellatera, Barcelona, Spain
    Am J Phys Anthropol 143:167-74. 2010
  5. ncbi The relevance of traditional knowledge systems for ethnopharmacological research: theoretical and methodological contributions
    Victoria Reyes-García
    ICREA and Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, 08193 Bellatera, Barcelona, Spain
    J Ethnobiol Ethnomed 6:32. 2010
  6. ncbi The role of ethnobotanical skills and agricultural labor in forest clearance: evidence from the Bolivian Amazon
    Victoria Reyes-García
    Institut de Ciencia i Tecnologia Ambientals, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain
    Ambio 40:310-21. 2011
  7. ncbi Ethnobotanical skills and clearance of tropical rain forest for agriculture: a case study in the lowlands of Bolivia
    Victoria Reyes-García
    Institut de Ciencia i Tecnologia Ambientals, Universitat Aitònoma de Barcelona, Spain
    Ambio 36:406-8. 2007
  8. ncbi Evaluating indices of traditional ecological knowledge: a methodological contribution
    Victoria Reyes-García
    ICREA and ICTA, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, 08193 Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain
    J Ethnobiol Ethnomed 2:21. 2006
  9. ncbi Is there a divide between local medicinal knowledge and Western medicine? a case study among native Amazonians in Bolivia
    Laura Calvet-Mir
    Institut de Ciencia i Tecnologia Ambientals, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, 08193 Bellatera, Barcelona, Spain
    J Ethnobiol Ethnomed 4:18. 2008

Detail Information

Publications9

  1. ncbi Social rank and adult male nutritional status: evidence of the social gradient in health from a foraging-farming society
    Victoria Reyes-García
    Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Institut de Ciencia i Tecnologia Ambientals, Facultat de Ciencies, Bellaterra 08193, Spain
    Soc Sci Med 67:2107-15. 2008
    ..Future research should explore locally-relevant psychosocial factors that may mediate the association between social status and health in non-industrial societies...
  2. ncbi Inequality in social rank and adult nutritional status: evidence from a small-scale society in the Bolivian Amazon
    Victoria Reyes-García
    ICREA and Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, 08193 Bellatera, Barcelona, Spain
    Soc Sci Med 69:571-8. 2009
    ....
  3. ncbi Cultural consonance and psychological well-being. Estimates using longitudinal data from an Amazonian society
    Victoria Reyes-García
    ICREA and Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, 08193 Bellatera, Barcelona, Spain
    Cult Med Psychiatry 34:186-203. 2010
    ..Our work contributes to research on psychological health disparities by showing that a locally defined and culturally specific measure of lifestyle success is associated with psychological health...
  4. ncbi Cultural consonance and body morphology: estimates with longitudinal data from an Amazonian society
    Victoria Reyes-García
    ICREA and Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, 08193 Bellatera, Barcelona, Spain
    Am J Phys Anthropol 143:167-74. 2010
    ....
  5. ncbi The relevance of traditional knowledge systems for ethnopharmacological research: theoretical and methodological contributions
    Victoria Reyes-García
    ICREA and Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, 08193 Bellatera, Barcelona, Spain
    J Ethnobiol Ethnomed 6:32. 2010
    ..Far less attention has been given to the social sciences, including anthropology and the study of traditional knowledge systems...
  6. ncbi The role of ethnobotanical skills and agricultural labor in forest clearance: evidence from the Bolivian Amazon
    Victoria Reyes-García
    Institut de Ciencia i Tecnologia Ambientals, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain
    Ambio 40:310-21. 2011
    ..We explain the finding in the context of Tsimane' increasing integration to the market economy...
  7. ncbi Ethnobotanical skills and clearance of tropical rain forest for agriculture: a case study in the lowlands of Bolivia
    Victoria Reyes-García
    Institut de Ciencia i Tecnologia Ambientals, Universitat Aitònoma de Barcelona, Spain
    Ambio 36:406-8. 2007
    ..People who use the forest for subsistence might place a higher value on standing forest than people who do not use it, and thus they may be more reluctant to cut down the forest...
  8. ncbi Evaluating indices of traditional ecological knowledge: a methodological contribution
    Victoria Reyes-García
    ICREA and ICTA, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, 08193 Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain
    J Ethnobiol Ethnomed 2:21. 2006
    ..Few studies have addressed reliability of indices of traditional ecological knowledge constructed with different quantitative methods...
  9. ncbi Is there a divide between local medicinal knowledge and Western medicine? a case study among native Amazonians in Bolivia
    Laura Calvet-Mir
    Institut de Ciencia i Tecnologia Ambientals, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, 08193 Bellatera, Barcelona, Spain
    J Ethnobiol Ethnomed 4:18. 2008
    ..In this article we study the relations between local and Western medicinal knowledge within a native Amazonian population, the Tsimane'...