Publications

Valeggia, C.  and Snodgrass, J.J. (2015) Health of Indigenous Peoples. Annual Review of Anthropology 44  (in press).

Breakey, A. A., Hinde, K., Valeggia, C., Sinofsky, A. and Ellison, P.T.  (2015) Illness in breastfeeding infants relates to concentration of lactoferrin and secretory Immunoglobulin A in mother’s milk. Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health (in press) doi: 10.1093/emph/eov002

Valeggia, C., Orlando, F. and Lagranja E. (2015) Cambios en la prevalencia de sobrepeso y obesidad en asentamientos toba de la provincia de Formosa [Changes in the prevalence of overweight and obesity in Toba settlements in the province of Formosa]. In: Procesos de Investigación e intervención en salud en comunidades indígenas de Argentina. Silvia Hirsch, Mariana Lorenzetti y Daniel Salomón, Eds. Instituto de Medicina Tropical y Ministerio de Salud, Argentina, Pp 235-258.

Valeggia, C. (2014) The Global and the Local: Understanding Health and Fertility in Latin American Indigenous Women. Health Care for Women International . DOI: 10.1080/07399332.2014.954704

Lagranja, E., Phojanakong, P., Navarro, A. and Valeggia, C. (2014). Indigenous populations in transition: An evaluation of the risk for metabolic syndrome among the Toba of northern Argentina. Annals of Human Biology. DOI: 10.3109/03014460.2014.932008

Lagranja, E., Navarro, A. and Valeggia, C. (2014) Alimentación y actividad física en adultos de una población Toba de la provincia de Formosa, Argentina [Diet and physical activity in adults of a Toba population in the province of Formosa, Argentina]. Diaeta 32(146) (March issue, in press).

Olmedo, S. and Valeggia, C. (2014) Estado nutricional y factores asociados al inicio de la alimentación complementaria en niños Qom de Formosa. [Nutritional status and factors associated with the initiation of complementary feeding in Qom children of Formosa] Archivos Argentinos de Pediatría 112(3) 254-257.

Lanza, N. and Valeggia, C. (2014) Análisis longitudinal del comportamiento reproductivo de una población Toba en transición. [Longitudinal analysis of reproductive behavior in a Toba population in transition]. Revista Brasileira de Estudos de Populaçao 31 (1):117-134.

Vala-Haynes, E., Valeggia, C. and Kohler, H-P. (2014) Out of union fertility in Paraguay. Notas de Población 97: 7-34.

Lanza, N., and Valeggia, C. (2014) Cambios demográficos en una población rural de la etnia Toba del norte de Argentina. [Demographic changes in a rural population of Toba ethnicity in northern Argentina]. Latin American Research Review 49 (2).

Lanza, N. Valeggia, C. and Pelaez, E. (2013) The reproductive transition in an indigenous population of northern Argentina. Biodemography and Social Biology 59:212-230.

Bove, R. M., Vala-Haynes, E. and Valeggia, C. (2013) Polygyny and Women’s Health in Rural Mali Journal of Biosocial Science 12: 1-24.  PDF

Bove, R.M., Vala-Haynes, E. and Valeggia, C. (2012) Women’s Health in Urban Mali: Social Predictors and Health Itineraries. Social Science and Medicine 75 (8):1392-1399. PDF

Lanza, N., and Valeggia, C. (2012) Transitions and reproduction in an indigenous community of northern Argentina. Revista Argentina de Antropología Biológica  (in press) PDF

Lanza, N., Valeggia, C. and Pelaez, E. (2011). Análisis de la fecundidad de los toba del norte de Argentina [Analysis of the Fertility of the Toba of northern Argentina] In: Pueblos indígenas y afrodescendientes en América Latina: Dinámicas poblacionales diversas y desafíos comunes. Serie Investigaciones Nº 12, Asociación Latinoamericana de Población, 47-71.

Fernandez-Duque, E., Burke, K.M., Schoenrock, K., Wolovich, C. and Valeggia, C. (2011) Hormonal monitoring of reproductive status in monogamous wild female owl monkeys of the Argentinean Chaco. Folia Primatologica 82:143-153.  PDF

McGuinness, C. and Valeggia, C. (2011) La transición menopáusica en dos poblaciones étnicamente diferentes de la ciudad de Formosa [The menopausal transition in two ethnically different populations of the city of Formosa] Encuentro de Geohistoria Regional 30, 272-278. PDF

Nagata, J., Bream, K.D.,Barg, F.K., and Valeggia, C. (2011) Coca-Colonization and Hybridization of Diets among the Tz’utujil Maya. Ecology of Food and Nutrition 50:4, 297-318. PDF

Nagata, J., Valeggia, C., Barg, F.K., and Bream, K.D. (2011) Criticisms of Chlorination:  Social Determinants of Water Beliefs and Practices among the Tz’utujil Maya. Panamerican Journal of Public Health 29(1): 9 -16. PDF

Leonard, W., Stock J., and Valeggia C. (2010) Evolutionary Perspectives on Human Diet and Nutrition. Evolutionary Anthropology, 19, 85-86. PDF

Valeggia, C., Burke, K. M., and Fernandez-Duque, E. (2010) The impact of socioeconomic change on nutritional status among Toba and Wichí populations of Argentina. Economics and Human Biology8(1):100-10.  PDF

Fernandez-Duque, E., Valeggia, C., and Mendoza, S. P. (2009) The biology of paternal care. Annual Review of Anthropology38:115-130. PDF

Nagata, J., Valeggia, C., Barg, F.K., and Bream, K.D. (2009) Body Mass Index, Socio-economic Status, and Socio-Behavioral Practices among Tz’utujil Maya women. Economics and Human Biology, 7(1):96-106. PDF

Valeggia, C. and Ellison, P. T. (2009) Interactions between metabolic and reproductive functions in the resumption of postpartum fecundity. American Journal of Human Biology21(4): 559-566. PDF

Lanza, N., Burke, K.M., and Valeggia, C. (2009) Fertility among the Toba, an Argentine indigenous population in transition. Society, Biology, and Human Affairs 73(1-2):26-34. PDF

Valeggia, C.R. (2009) Flexible Caretakers: Responses of Toba families in transition. In: Substitute Parents: Biological and Social Perspectives on Alloparenting in Human Societies, Gillian Bentley & Ruth Mace (Eds).  Studies in Biosocial Science Series, Berghahn Press, pp 100 -115. PDF

Bove, R.M. and Valeggia, C.R. (2008) Polygyny and Women’s Health in Sub-Saharan Africa. Social Science and Medicine 68(1):21-9. PDF

Valeggia, C.R. (2007) Taking the lab to the field: Minimally invasive techniques for monitoring reproductive hormones in population-scale research.  Population Development Review33(3) 525-542. PDF

Valeggia, C.R. (2007) Monitoreo de hormonas en el campo: Métodos y aplicaciones en ecología reproductiva humana [Monitoring hormones in the field: Methods and applications in human reproductive ecology]. Revista Argentina de Antropología Biológica 9 (2):10-18. PDF

Walker, R., Hill, K., Gurven, M., Magliano, A., Chagnon, N., Djurovic, G., Hames, R., Hurtado, A.M., Oiver, W.J., De Souza, R., Valeggia, C. and Yamauchi, T. (2006) Growth rates, developmental markers, and life histories in 21 small-scale societies. American Journal of Human Biology 18(3):295-311. PDF

Lanza, N., Valeggia, C. (2006). Caracterización demográfica de una población Toba de Formosa. [Demographic characterization of a Toba population in Formosa]. Encuentro de Geohistoria Regional. IIGHI – CONICET. Pp. 293-301PDF

Valeggia, C.R. and Lanza, N. A. (2005) Tiempos de cambio: Consecuencias de la transición nutricional en comunidades Toba de Formosa.  (Consequences of the nutritional transition in the Toba communities of Formosa).Encuentro de Geohistoria Regional, Resistencia. Pp 615-623. PDF

Sánchez-Ocasio, K. and Valeggia, C.R. (2005) Fertilidad y transición demográfica entre los Toba del Gran Chaco Argentino: Factores Mediadores. (Fertility and demographic transition among the Toba of the Argentine Gran Chaco: Mediating Factors) Encuentro de Geohistoria Regional, pp. 570-577. PDF

Lanza, N. A. and Valeggia, C. R. (2005) Análisis de posibles factores determinantes de la proporción sexual secundaria en una población Toba.  (Analysis of possible determinants of secondary sex ratios in a Toba population).  Revista Argentina de Antropologia Biológica 7 (2) 21-33. PDF

Valeggia, C.R., Lanza N. A. and Córdoba, L.I. (2005) Fuentes de variación en la alimentación actual de los toba-pilagá del oeste formoseño.  (Sources of variation in the current diet of Toba-Pilaga people in Western Formosa). Actas del Quinto Congreso de Americanistas, Sociedad Argentina de Americanistas, Buenos Aires: 123-142PDF

Ellison, P.T., Valeggia, C.R., and Sherry, D. S. (2005) Human birth seasonality. In: Seasonality in Primates: Implications for Human Evolution.  Diane K. Brockman and Carel P. van Schaik (Eds).  Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology, Cambridge University Press, pp. 379 -400. PDF

Valeggia, C.R. and Ellison, P. T. (2004)  Lactational amenorrhea in well nourished Toba women of Argentina.  Journal of Biosocial Science 36 (5) 573-595. PDF

Valeggia, C.R. and Ellison P. T. (2003) Impact of breastfeeding on anthropometric changes in a population of Toba women.  American Journal of Human Biology 15:717-724. PDF

Ellison, P.T. and Valeggia, C. R. (2003) C-peptide levels and the duration of lactational amenorrhea. Fertility and Sterility 80(4):878-880. PDF

Valeggia, C. R. and Tola, F. (2003) The Argentine Toba.  In: Encyclopedia of Medical Anthropology. C. Ember and M. Ember (Eds.), Plenum/Kluwer Press, New York pp. 564-572. PDF

Bove, R. M., Valeggia, C.R, and Ellison, P.T. (2002) Girl helpers and nursing women’s activities among the Toba of Argentina. Human Nature 13(4), 457-472. PDF

Valeggia, C., Faulkner, K., and Ellison, P. T. (2002) Evaluación de curvas de peso en lactantes de una comunidad Tobade Formosa.  Archivos Argentinos de Pediatría 100 (2), 31-36. PDF

Valeggia, C.R. and Ellison, P.T. (2002) Energetics, Fecundity, and Human Life History. In: Biodemography of Fertility, J. Rodgers and H.P. Koehler (Eds.), Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 87-103. PDF

Valeggia, C.R. and Ellison, P. T. (2001).  Lactation, Energetics, and Postpartum Fecundity.  In: Reproductive Ecology and Human Evolution, Peter T. Ellison (Ed.), Aldine de Gruyter, New York., pp. 85-105. PDF

Faulkner, K., Valeggia, C.R., and Ellison, P.T. (2000) Infant growth status in a Toba community of Formosa, Argentina.  Social Biology and Human Affairs, 65.1:8-19. PDF

Fernandez-Duque, E., Valeggia, C.R., and Mason, W. A.  (2000). Effects of pair-bond and social context on male-female interactions in captive titi monkeys (Callicebus moloch). Ethology, 106, 1067-1082. PDF

Valeggia, C.R., Mendoza, S.P., Fernandez-Duque, E., Mason, W.A., and Lasley, B. (1999) Reproductive Biology of Female Titi Monkeys (Callicebus moloch). American Journal of Primatology,47(3):183-95. PDF

Valeggia CR, Mendoza SP, Capitanio JP. (1997)  A non-radioactive assay for determination of mitogen induced proliferation of peripheral blood lymphocytes in rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta). Boletín Primatológico Latinoamericano, 6(1):9-13.

Fernandez-Duque E, Valeggia CR. (1995)  Meta-analysis: a valuable tool in conservation research. Reprinted in: Readings from Conservation Biology; To Preserve Biodiversity – An overview.  Editor: David Ehrenfeld, 208-214. PDF

Fernandez-Duque E, Valeggia CR. (1994) Meta-analysis: a valuable tool in conservation research. Conservation Biology 8(2): 555-561. PDF

Fernandez-Duque E, Valeggia CR, Maldonado H. (1992) Multi-trial learning in the crab Chasmagnathus. Behavioral and Neural Biology 57: 189-197. PDF

Valeggia C, Fernandez-Duque E, Maldonado H. (1989) Danger stimulus-induced analgesia in the crab Chasmagnathus granulatus. Brain Research 481:330-333. PDF