Stanford Institute for Research in the Social Sciences (IRiSS) Workshop: Anthropological Perspectives on Ecology and Health

Location, Directions, and other practical local information about the conference.

Friday, November 19:

1:00-3:30 Human Behavioral Ecology: Applications to Policy and Development

• Donna Leonetti (Washington): Human behavioral ecology in the use of modern birth control in two ethnic groups in NE India
• Ruth Mace (UCL): The uptake of contraception in a Gambian community: the diffusion of an innovation over 25 years
• Lisa Rende-Taylor: Globalization and the future of southeast Asian matrilineal systems
• Bram Tucker (Ohio State): Experimental evidence for time preference among Mikea of Madagascar: Implications for environmental policy
• Lexine Trask: Constrained optimization: a mathematical model to explain sexual decision-making and perceptions of risk

3:30-3:45 Break

3:45-5:15 Resource Use and Environmental Variability

• Douglas Bird (Stanford): Do bigger animals provide higher hunting returns?
• Stacey Rucas and Mike Gurven (UC Santa Barbara): Conflict, resource competition and networking among Tsimane womenn
• Lore Ruttan (Emory): Heterogeneity on the commons: is diversity an asset or a hindrance to success?

Saturday, November 20

8:00-9:00 Breakfast (bagels and coffee)

9:00-11:30 Development, Growth, and Nutrition

• Richard G. Bribiescas (Yale): Population and comparative variation in serum leptin and ghrelin levels: Implications for the evolution of energy allocation mechanisms
• Chris Kuzawa (Northwestern): The fetal origins hypothesis and human adaptation: are fetal cues reliable predictors of future nutritional environments?
• Dan Sellen (Toronto): Evolution of human lactation and complementary feeding: Implications for understanding contemporary cross-cultural variation
• Craig Hadley (Brown): Child feeding practices in East Africa
• Crystal Patil (Washington U): Changes in young child care and feeding after the birth of a younger sibling among the Iraqw of Tanzania

11:30-12:30 Cultural Inheritance

• Richard Pocklington (Stanford): What is a Culturally Transmitted Unit, and How Do We Find One?
• Melissa Brown (Stanford): Empirical Evidence for a Distinct Social Inheritance Track

12:30-1:30 Lunch (catered)

1:30-3:30 Social Interactions and Reproductive Roles

• James Holland Jones (Stanford): Pair-Bonding and the Human Life History Problem
• Helen Alvarez (Utah): Stationary Populations, Grandmothering and the Evolution of Human Longevity
• Monique Borgerhoff Mulder (UC Davis): Competition and Cooperation among Kin
• Eric Smith (Washington): The emergence of inequality in egalitarian societies: evolutionary game theory and simulation models

3:30-4:00 Snack break

4:00-6:00 Social medicine and disease

• Cecelía de Mello e Souza, Kátia Edmundo, Lina Cortes Rojas, Maria Luiza de Carvalho, Rosane Marques and Vanessa Fonseca (Universidad Federal do Rio de Janeiro): Social Movements and Health Promotion: An Ethnographic Study of HIV/AIDS Community Prevention Centers in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
• Kylea Liese (Stanford): Structural Violence, Widow Inheritance, and HIV among the Luo of Western Kenya
• Maria Duque (South Florida): Using Interactive Participatory Research in Food Consumption Studies with Immigrant Children
• Ronald Barrett (Stanford): Social Challenges to Effective Ring Vaccination Programs
• Murphy Haliburton (Queens College, CUNY): Protecting Plants and Chemicals: Innovation in Ayurvedic Medicine and Intellectual Property Law

Sponsored by the Department of Anthropological Sciences, Stanford University, the Stanford Methods of Analysis Program in the Social Sciences (MAPSS), and the Stanford Institute for Research in the Social Sciences (IRiSS).

Questions? Ask your somewhat clueless, but well-intentioned, hosts: Rebecca Bird, Jamie Jones, or Ron Barrett (rbird, jhj1, and rb2, respectively, followed by "@stanford.edu").