Health, Nutrition and Inequality in Latin America An Anthropometric History

List of figures

About the editors

List of contributors

Acknowledgements

 1. Introduction to an anthropometric history of Latin America

Manuel Llorca-Jaña, Ricardo Salvatore, and José Miguel Martínez-Carrión.

 2. Growing up in turbulent times: Economic growth and biological well-being in Argentina, 1966-2000

Ricardo Salvatore and Carlos G. Bozzoli

 3. Height inequality in Chile: An empirical analysis for the nineteenth and twentieth centuries

Manuel Llorca-Jaña and Martina Allende

 4. Biological standards of living in Bolivia, 1880s-1990s

José Alejandro Peres-Cajías, Boris Branisa, and Nigel Caspa

 5. Height and health in Cartagena de Indias. Skeletal evidence from the 16^th to the 19^th Century

Javier Rivera-Sandoval, Sergio Andrés Castro-Méndez, Miguel Andrés Acevedo-Ruíz, and Adolfo Meisel-Roca

 6. Feeding Mexico’s growth: Nutrition and living standards in twentieth-Century Mexico

Moramay López-Alonso

 7. Bodies of the revolution: The biological wellbeing of families in central and northern Mexico, 1880s-1940s

Amílcar E. Challú

 8. The biological welfare in Ecuador over the second half of the 20^th century: An analysis of sociodemographic determinants of cohort adult height

Antonio D. Cámara, Amand Blanes, and Eva María Mera lntriago

 9. Height of Uruguayan men in 19^th and 20^th centuries. A story of growth and stagnation (1870-2000)

Daniel Ferrari and Henry Willebald

10. Inequality of opportunity in body height of Brazilians: Evidence from cohorts born between 1940 and 1975

Victor Hugo de Oliveira

11. Socioeconomic characteristics and the nutrition transition in Brazil: An analysis of the main national surveys from 1974 to 2019

Isabela Venancio da Silva, Kathleen Reichow de Figueiredo, Larissa Novais da Silva Lopes, Jéssica Cumpian Silva, Stefanie Gonçalves, Daniela Wenzel, Wolney Lisboa Conde, and Hilton P. Silva

12. The height of prisoners in early 20th-century Cuba: An approach to the biological well-being of the working poor

Javier Moreno-Lázaro and José Miguel Martínez-Carrión

Biography

Manuel Llorca-Jaña is a Full Professor of Economic and Business History at Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez (Chile).

José Miguel Martínez-Carrión is a Full Professor of History and Economic Institutions at the University of Murcia (Spain).

Ricardo Salvatore is Professor of Modern History at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires.

“This book makes a fundamental contribution to the study of anthropometric history in Latin America and is essential reading for those researching economic history and the Social-Economic-Political-Emotional (SEPE) Factors that impact biological well-being in the region." 

-        Barry Bogin (Loughborough University), author of Patterns of Human Growth, 3^rd edition www.cambridge.org/9781108434485

 

“This fine collection of essays, covering nine countries, and written by leading Latin American economic historians, provides readers with a valuable ‘state of the art’ of anthropometric history in the región. It shows well how the study of human stature can provide insights on the long-term evolution of welfare and inequality, while offering particularly new perspectives on both the colonial period and the second half of the twentieth century as well as the better-researched late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Its wide coverage, including innovative essays on previously neglected countries like Cuba, Ecuador, and Bolivia, is extremely welcome”.

-        Rory M. Miller (University of Liverpool).

 

“The study of human height as a welfare indicator is particularly promising in Latin America with its rich archival tradition: this book makes full use of these available sources and generates completely new insights”.

-        Joerg Baten (Tübingen University).