Graduate Students

Norberto Lanza

Norberto A. Lanza
Licenciado in Biological Sciences (Univ. of Mar del Plata, 2000)

PhD Candidate, Demography, Univ. Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina

Norberto is interested in demographic changes in Western Toba populations.  He is currently analyzing census data, reproductive hisotries and surveys to investigate demographic patterns of the Toba communities of Sombrero Negro in Western Formosa.

Publications:

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). Anales del XXIV Encuentro de Geohistoria Regional, Resistencia.          

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.

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: 123-142.

Meredith Reiches working Meredith W. Reiches
PhD Candidate, Harvard University

Meredith's doctoral research is focused on the ecological and physiological determinants of puberty.  She is currently collecting data in the village of NamQom, province of Formosa, Argentina.


Meredith with Toba people

Publications

Reiches, M. W., C.R. Valeggia, and  P.T. Ellison (2007) The ecology of puberty: C-peptide and anthropometry in an Eastern Toba population. Am. J. Phys. Anthropol.