Culture, Environment and Health in the Yucatan Peninsula
Dublin Core
Title
Culture, Environment and Health in the Yucatan Peninsula
Subject
Human ecology
Electronic Resource Item Type Metadata
Book Title
Culture, Environment and Health in the Yucatan Peninsula
Publication Date
2020
Publisher
Springer, Cham
Document Type
Book
Language
English
ISBN
9783030270018
Region
Yucatan, Mexico
Access
Open Access
Abstract
This book adopts a human ecology approach to present an overview of the biological responses to social, political, economic, cultural and environmental changes that affected human populations in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico, since the Classic Maya Period. Human bodies express social relations, and we can read these relations by analyzing biological tissues or systems, and by measuring certain phenotypical traits at the population level. Departing from this theoretical premise, the contributors to this volume analyze the interactions between ecosystems, sociocultural systems and human biology in a specific geographic region to show how changes in sociocultural and natural environment affect the health of a population over time.
Cataloger
Kristen Walker
Citation
“Culture, Environment and Health in the Yucatan Peninsula,” ICMGLT Digital Library, accessed November 3, 2026, https://library.icmglt.org/items/show/862.