The Solomon Islands Project : a long-term study of health, human biology, and culture change
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The Solomon Islands Project : a long-term study of health, human biology, and culture change
(Research monographs on human population biology, no. 4)(Oxford science publications)
Clarenden Press , Oxford University Press, 1987
Available at 15 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
In the late 1960s and early 70s, the Harvard Solomon Islands Medical-Anthropological expeditions amassed extensive anthropological, genetic, and health data on over 3000 individuals living in eight quite different groups in these south-west Pacific islands. At that time, most of the groups were still only marginally affected by world culture, but in the past twenty years many have been transformed by mining discoveries and cash cropping. This volume serves both to summarize the findings of the Harvard expeditions and the follow-up results of subsequent surveys in 1978-80, in which a large percentage of the people initially studied were resurveyed. Particular emphases of this collection include genetic distance studies in this most diverse set of populations, longitudinal studies in blood-pressure change and associated changes in body build, a prospective study of hepatitis-B status and mortality, and an overview of epidemiological trends with modernization.
Table of Contents
- POPULATION HISTORIES AND PROFILES: Introduction
- Ethnographic description and recent histories of the survey groups
- Profiles of the survey samples
- Perspectives on health care in Malaita
- Diet and nutrition
- Epidemiology
- BIOMETRIC AND GENETIC VARIATION AMONG THE SAMPLES: Blood polymorphism variation on the Solomon Islands
- Anthropometry
- Fingerprints as phylogenetic markers in the Solomon Islands
- Odontometric comparisons among Solomon Islanders and other oceanic peoples
- Statistical comparison of patterns of biological and cultural-historical variation
- LONGITUDINAL STUDIES: Longitudinal anthropometric changes in adolescents and adults
- Blood pressure changes in the Survey populations
- Hepatitis B in the Solomon Islands.
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