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Ethnohistory (2015) 62 (2): 309–331.
Published: 01 April 2015
...Barry L. Isaac This article analyzes the indigenous testimony in the 1577–86 Relaciones Geográficas for central Mexico with regard to the demographic collapse that followed the Spanish Conquest. Although asked to indicate the causes of the enormous mortality and morbidity, the native informants...
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Ethnohistory (2018) 65 (1): 101–127.
Published: 01 January 2018
...Chris Arnett; Jesse Morin Abstract This article argues that the red-ocher paintings (pictographs) in Coast Salish Tsleil-Waututh territory in Indian Arm, British Columbia, were made around the time of contact in specific response to demographic collapse caused by smallpox. Tsleil-Waututh people...
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Ethnohistory (2010) 57 (2): 225–262.
Published: 01 April 2010
... not appear to have suffered from the demographic collapse associated with introduced diseases. Second, the native population at Santa Catalina consisted of speakers of at least three languages and was drawn from a wide geographic area. The diversity of the native population at Santa Catalina may have...
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Ethnohistory (2019) 66 (3): 409–435.
Published: 01 July 2019
... that have intrigued the author over the course of his career. Personal reflections are offered of research activities that engage indigenous resistance to Spanish intrusion, demographic collapse in the wake of conquest, the link between disease outbreaks and Maya demise, and the role played by Pedro de...
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Ethnohistory (2010) 57 (3): 357–362.
Published: 01 July 2010
..., and other historical documents to construct a historical
chronology of epidemics that swept through populations with no acquired
immunity, which he argued led to a demographic collapse even before sus-
tained European contact. He argued that epidemics were the likely cause of
360...
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Ethnohistory (2001) 48 (3): 518–519.
Published: 01 July 2001
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Boyd’s approach focuses on three kinds of evidence, each of which
adds a different dimension to understanding the demographic collapse that
followed European contact. He uses the reports of European and Ameri-
can traders, missionaries, and government officials to trace the geographic
and chronological...
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Ethnohistory (2017) 64 (2): 341–342.
Published: 01 April 2017
... collapse that slashed the state’s Indian population from an estimated 150,000 in 1845 to a mere 30,000 by 1870. Although demographer Sherburne Cook carefully calculated that epidemic diseases caused fully 60 percent of this loss and that lethal violence accounted for less than 4 percent, historian Benjamin...
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Ethnohistory (2017) 64 (4): 557–558.
Published: 01 October 2017
.... From a historical perspective, Gade briefly considers the role of pre-Incan societies, as well as the monumental architecture campaign of the Incas, which relied on the forced migration and labor of conquered peoples from other areas of the Andes to Cuzco. Exacerbating the demographic collapse...
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Ethnohistory (2014) 61 (3): 587–589.
Published: 01 July 2014
... rather than fundamentally altering them; disease
did not produce demographic collapse in the sixteenth century in either
region; climatic fluctuations in both regions influenced the course of inter-
ethnic encounters; and conflict between natives and Europeans was shaped
by cultural perspectives...
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Ethnohistory (2002) 49 (1): 69–121.
Published: 01 January 2002
.... Kay, Charles E., Brian Patton, and Cliff A. White 2000 Historical Wildlife Observations in the Canadian Rockies: Implications for Ecological Integrity. Canadian Field-Naturalist 114 (4): 561 -83. Kealhofer, Lisa 1996 The Evidence for Demographic Collapse in California. In Bioarchaeology...
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Ethnohistory (2015) 62 (4): 751–779.
Published: 01 October 2015
... 1997). These include a logging concession concurrent
with the founding of the village early in the twentieth century; growth dur-
ing a banana boom in the thirties followed by market-oriented swine pro-
duction and demographic collapse; and development intervention by the
colonial government...
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Ethnohistory (2019) 66 (1): 95–116.
Published: 01 January 2019
.... This article assesses the impact of imperial service on Tlaxcala and its people. It argues that the migration of 1591 was not a voluntary act undertaken by heroic Indian allies. Rather, it was a forced exodus that provoked far-reaching opposition and strained an indigenous state facing demographic collapse...
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Ethnohistory (2007) 54 (3): 473–508.
Published: 01 July 2007
... explain massive and sudden (or nonlinear) demographic
collapses among Amerindian tribes.
Ultimately, I intend this study to be a case example of a potentially
greater geographic and cultural pattern in Amerindian depopulation and
to encourage greater explorative research...
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Ethnohistory (2006) 53 (4): 753–764.
Published: 01 October 2006
... at Mississippian chiefdoms and demographic collapse after
contact with Spanish explorers). Because Hahn sees the town of Coweta
as dominating those relations, his focus seldom slips from it and its lead-
ing men. Central to his argument and behind his title is the assertion that
the ‘‘Creek Nation’’ came...
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Ethnohistory (2018) 65 (1): 25–50.
Published: 01 January 2018
... and Spanish Contact periods. The equivalencies are of three kinds: “deep structures” (quadripartition), common political expediencies and functions (power-sharing and council houses), and temporal continuities per se (dual rulership). The article concludes that the rupture (“collapse”) between Classic...
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Ethnohistory (2002) 49 (1): 171–204.
Published: 01 January 2002
..., and
A. Rey, eds. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press.
Cook, N. David
1981 Demographic Collapse: Indian Peru 1520–1620. Cambridge: Cam-
bridge University Press.
Cordell...
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Ethnohistory (2005) 52 (2): 371–406.
Published: 01 April 2005
... statistical and demographic data on native populations. In 1906 James
Mooney gave an address to the American Anthropological Association
titled ‘‘The Decrease of the Indian Population’’ and introduced the notion
of catastrophic demographic collapse due to disease, liquor, warfare, and
‘‘low vitality due...
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Ethnohistory (2021) 68 (2): 311–341.
Published: 01 April 2021
... . Cook Noble David . 1981 . Demographic Collapse, Indian Peru, 1520–1620 . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press . Curatola Petrocchi Marco , and Puente Luna José Carlos de la . 2013 . “ Contar concertando: Quipus, piedritas y escritura en los Andes coloniales .” In El quipu...
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Ethnohistory (2017) 64 (1): 152–153.
Published: 01 January 2017
... the population of Buenos Aires for that same year). This one community’s records are nearly complete and show that Yapeyú enjoyed a spate of prosperity and demographic stability until relatively late in the day; then it, too, began to come apart when the Indians, who could no longer defend title over...
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Ethnohistory (2017) 64 (1): 19–40.
Published: 01 January 2017
... demographic collapse of the Tainos. 5 To stop the wholesale destruction of the Indies, the Crown issued the New Laws of 1542, which stipulated that Indians were free vassals of the Crown and could not be enslaved under any circumstances even if taken in just wars . 6 From then on Indian slavery...
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