(a) strong positive association between schooling and patience, and patient’s effect in the choice of human capital people accumulate, with implications for income inequality
(b) widespread sharing of ethnobotanical knowledge within and across villages,
(c) poor adult and child nutritional status as revealed through anthropometric indicators, bio-markers, and parasitic infections,
(d) absence of strong community-level effects in shaping nutritional outcomes,
(e)several studies dealing with the income and own-price elasticities of demand for wildlife suggesting that many wild animals are inferior goods — their consumption declines as incomes rise,
(f) estimates of the effect of market participation on well-being using instrumental-variables,
(g) strong positive associations between income inequality and three distinct negative emotions (anger, fear, sadness) after controlling for the presumably protective effect of social capital,
(h) evidence that schooling does not erode traditional social capital,
(i) absence of evidence for secular change in adult physical stature during 1920-1980,
(j) increased reliance on cash cropping of rice to make money,
(k)some evidence that maternal and own ethnobotanical knowledge might enhance child and own objective indicators of health, and
(l) evidence that climate perturbations during gestation and early childhood leave a lasting imprint on current height – a results that meshes with much that has been written about the vulnerability of rural producers in small-scale societies of low-income nations to covariant shocks.
The first 50 years of sustained contact with Westerners has not deracinated the Tsimane’ or transmogrify their society. Their distance from urban centers, propinquity to land and wildlife, and schooling in the Tsimane’ language with Tsimane’ teachers might help explain the absence of strong adverse effects.
On the other hand, the absence of strong associations could also reflect measurement error (particularly serious in panel studies) and lack of statistical power from studying people in only 13 villages. As the journal titles suggest,
publications have reached beyond anthropology to disciplines such as
biology, psychology, economics, and history.
