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Intragroup variability in the body posture of russian and kalmykian female students

Ivanova E.M.

Lomonosov Moscow State University, Anuchin Research Institute and Museum of Anthropology, Mokhovaya st., 11, Moscow, 125009, Russia

Ivanova E.M., e-mail: elena.ivanova27@gmail.com

Abstract

The data on Russian (Moscow) and Kalmykian (Elista) female students aged 19-23 years were observed. The program for investigation consisted of standard anthropometry; for the evaluation of body posture the goniometry technique was used – a method that allows to measure deflection angles of the spine column and pelvis from the vertical axis. The analysis of anthropometric data revealed a trend among Russian female students to the leptosomic proportions in comparison with Kalmykian students. The differences in skinfold topography were also revealed. Basic goniometric characteristics of Kalmykian female students are significantly smaller than in the Russian group, which characterize their posture as being more straight. The results of posture status visual estimation confirm the data of goniometric investigation: 62.7% of Kalmykian students have straight back, while among the Russians approximately the same percent of students are round-shouldered. The number of posture abnormalities among Kalmykians does not exceed 25%, but in Russians the corresponding figure is more than 60%. These differences could be interpreted in the context of ethnic differences and also different ecological and social conditions of living between the two groups of students.

Keywords

morphology, body posture, inclination angles of backbone and pelvis, goniometry technique

Цит.: Ivanova E.M. Intragroup variability in the body posture of russian and kalmykian female students // Moscow University Anthropology Bulletin (Vestnik Moskovskogo Universiteta. Seria XXIII. Antropologia), 2010; 4/2010; с. 76-81