Mailing address:
University of
Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center
Downtown Denver Campus
Department of Anthropology
Campus Box 103, P.O. Box 173364
Denver, CO 80217-3364
(303) 556-6792
E-mail:
david.tracer@cudenver.edu
Education:
Ph.D., Anthropology (Biological)
University of Michigan, 1991.
Dissertation: The Interaction of Nutrition and Fertility
among Au
Forager- Horticulturalists of Papua
New Guinea.
Ann Arbor, MI: University Microfilms International.
M.A., Anthropology (Biological)
University of Michigan, 1985.
B.A., Anthropology
Brandeis University, 1984.
Current Academic Positions:
Associate Professor and Chair, Department of
Anthropology.
Associate Professor, Department of Health & Behavioral Sciences
Associate Professor, Department of Family Medicine
University of Colorado
at Denver and Health Sciences Center.
Selected Academic Publications:
Henrich J., Boyd R., Bowles S., Camerer C., Fehr E., Gintis H., McElreath R., Alvard M., Barr A., Ensminger J., Henrich N.S., Hill K., Gil-White F., Gurven M., Marlowe F., Patton J.Q., and Tracer D. 2005. 'Economic Man' in Cross-Cultural Perspective: Behavioral Experiments in 15 Small-Scale Societies. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 28:795-815.
Tracer, D.P. 2004. Market Integration, Reciprocity and Fairness in Rural Papua New Guinea: Results from a Two-Village Ultimatum Game Study. In J. Henrich, R. Boyd, S. Bowles, C. Camerer, E.Fehr, and H. Gintis (eds.) Foundations of Human Sociality: Economic Experiments and Ethnographic Evidence from Fifteen Small-Scale Societies. Oxford University Press. pp. 232-259.
Tracer, D.P. 2003. Selfishness and fairness in economic and evolutionary perspective: an experimental economic study in Papua New Guinea. Current Anthropology 44:432-438.
Tracer, D.P. 2002. Somatic versus reproductive energy allocation in Papua New Guinea: life history theory and public policy. American Journal of Human Biology 14:621-626.
Tracer, D.P., Sturt, R.J., Sturt, A., and Braithwaite, L.M. 1998. Two decade trends in birth weight and early childhood growth in Papua New Guinea. American Journal of Human Biology 10:483-493.
Tracer, D.P. 1997. Reproductive and socioeconomic correlates of maternal haemoglobin levels in rural Papua New Guinea.Tropical Medicine & International Health 2:513-518.
Tracer, D.P. 1996. Lactation, nutrition, and postpartum amenorrhea in lowland Papua New Guinea.Human Biology 68:277-293.
Tracer, D.P. 1994. Socioeconomic mediation of birth interval duration in a Papua New Guinea population. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Vol. 709, Human Reproductive Ecology: Interactions of Environment, Fertility, and Behavior. New York: The New York Academy of Sciences. pp. 231-234.
In Press:
Strand M., Perry J., Jin M., Tracer D., Fischer P., Zhang P., Xi W., and Li S. Diagnosis of Rickets and Reassessing its Prevalence Among Rural Children in Northern China. Forthcoming in Pediatrics International (2007).
Manuscripts in Review:
Cruel to be Kind: Effects of Sanctions and Third-Party Enforcers on Generosity in Papua New Guinea.
Manuscripts in Preparation:
Cultural Contingency and Human Motor Development.
The Choreography of Lactation in Lowland Papua New Guinea.
Recent Research Grants and Consultancies:
2005. The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation (Network on Economic Environments and the Evolution of Individual Preferences and Social Norms): Prosociality and Justice: An Ethno-Experimental Study in Papua New Guinea.
2005. University of Colorado Center for Faculty Development: Prosociality and Justice: An Ethno-Experimental Study in Papua New Guinea.
2002. The National Science Foundation: An Experimental Economic Inquiry into Fairness and Decision-Making in Papua New Guinea.
1998. The National Science Foundation: Breast-feeding Structure and Parental Investment in Papua New Guinea.
1998. The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation (Network on Economic Environments and the Evolution of Individual Preferences and Social Norms): The Evolutionary Ecology of Reciprocal Fairness in Lowland Papua New Guinea.