Help Trumps Research During Bolivian Floods

Departmental News

Posted:  Mar 04, 2014 - 12:00pm

Researchers in UNM’s anthropology department are helping an indigenous group combat and overcome flood devastation in Bolivia. Daniel Cummings, a graduate student pursuing his doctorate in anthropology at UNM, is part of the Tsimane Health and Life History Project, whose primary purpose is to study the Tsimane people in order to supply data for health and anthropological research, he said.