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Ethnohistory (2005) 52 (1): 197–198.
Published: 01 January 2005
...Martha Few By Suzanne Alchon. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2003. ix +214 pp., introduction, maps, figures, tables, appendix, epilogue, notes,bibliography, index. $45.00 cloth, $22.95 paper.) 2005 Book Review Forum
A Pest in the Land: New World Epidemics in a Global...
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Ethnohistory (2005) 52 (1): 198–200.
Published: 01 January 2005
...W. George Lovell By Suzanne Alchon. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2003. ix +214 pp., introduction, maps, figures, tables, appendix, epilogue, notes,bibliography, index. $45.00 cloth, $22.95 paper.) 2005 Book Review Forum
A Pest in the Land: New World Epidemics...
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Ethnohistory (2005) 52 (1): 200–201.
Published: 01 January 2005
...David Sowell By Suzanne Alchon. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2003. ix +214 pp., introduction, maps, figures, tables, appendix, epilogue, notes,bibliography, index. $45.00 cloth, $22.95 paper.) 2005 Book Review Forum
A Pest in the Land: New World Epidemics in a Global...
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Ethnohistory (2009) 56 (1): 214–215.
Published: 01 January 2009
... of American corporate, legal, and political
opposition.
DOI 10.1215/00141801-2008-049
214 Book Reviews
Epidemics and Enslavement: Biological Catastrophe in the Native South-
east, 1492–1715. By Paul Kelton. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press...
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Ethnohistory (2004) 51 (1): 45–71.
Published: 01 January 2004
...Paul Kelton Current scholarship on the impact of epidemics on American Indians is inadequate to explain how Indians survived. Too often Indians are given no credit for being able to combat emergent diseases, and too often epidemics are depicted as completely undermining native religious beliefs...
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Ethnohistory (2012) 59 (3): 659–661.
Published: 01 July 2012
...Manuella Meyer Diseased Relations: Epidemics, Public Health, and State-Building in Yucatán, Mexico, 1847–1924 . By McCrea Heather . ( Albuquerque : University of Mexico Press , 2011 . 288 pp., acknowledgments, afterword, illustrations, map, bibliography, index . $27.95 paper...
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Ethnohistory (2019) 66 (4): 623–645.
Published: 01 October 2019
...Rebecca Dufendach Abstract The first encounters between Nahuas and Spaniards from 1519 to 1521 resulted in widespread deaths in the indigenous communities of central Mexico. Although the first recorded disease epidemic is often acknowledged as a factor in the loss of rule to the invaders...
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Ethnohistory (2002) 49 (3): 507–543.
Published: 01 July 2002
...Fernando Santos-Granero The killing of alleged children sorcerers has been widely reported among the Arawak of eastern Peru. Accusations of child sorcery multiplied at junctures of increased outside pressures marked by violence, displacement, and epidemics. Mythical foundations for this belief...
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Ethnohistory (2021) 68 (2): 167–190.
Published: 01 April 2021
... the Relaciones geográficas , which were completed after a major epidemic devastated the Indigenous population of Mesoamerica. The author did not submit the paper for publication at the time. The current pandemic has lent some modest perspective to the many epidemic diseases that have swept through the Americas...
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Ethnohistory (2002) 49 (1): 123–169.
Published: 01 January 2002
..., and large parts of their territory were lost. The greatest loss occurred in the years from about 1636 to 1641, when Pueblo populations, already diminished as a result of various forms of Spanish exploitation, flight from the region, and, perhaps, earlier epidemics, suffered a major disease event...
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Ethnohistory (2005) 52 (3): 503–532.
Published: 01 July 2005
... with necessary items for the spirit's journey to the afterlife. The second was to cease hunting for one year. In 1846 some fur traders observed unprecedented departures from these customs, due perhaps to the influence of the fur trade,missionaries, or repeated epidemics. Although conditions seem to have favored...
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Ethnohistory (2007) 54 (3): 473–508.
Published: 01 July 2007
..., in particular, accelerated their depopulation when they endured back-to-back years of epidemics and starvation. This raises important questions about the specific influence of death customs and other practices used by Amerindian groups in response to depopulation following contact with Euro-Americans...
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Dena'ina Resistance to Russian Hegemony, Late Eighteenth and Ninetenth Centuries: Cook Inlet, Alaska
Ethnohistory (2013) 60 (3): 485–504.
Published: 01 July 2013
..., the Dena'ina contextualized the turmoil not as the oppressive actions of invaders but as shaman-induced intracultural turmoil, thereby shaping the narrative in their own historical terms and negating the power of the occupier to frame history. Third, after the 1836–40 smallpox epidemic, many Dena'ina were...
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Ethnohistory (2024) 71 (1): 47–62.
Published: 01 January 2024
... Mulia. After a few short-lived settlements in the early part of the eighteenth century, a new wave of Franciscans began attempts to convert the Xicaque of Leán y Mulia in 1747–54. In 1751 the onset of a smallpox epidemic at the Franciscan misiones became the watershed event that defined subsequent...
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Ethnohistory (2024) 71 (1): 113–138.
Published: 01 January 2024
... phase of a smallpox epidemic that ravaged communities of Indigenous survivors. More lives were lost to smallpox than to combat, particularly as the disease permeated prisoner camps. A general lack of concern for the health of Indigenous prisoners punctuated their experience of dispossession at the hands...
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Ethnohistory (2002) 49 (1): 69–121.
Published: 01 January 2002
.... 1955a The Epidemic of 1830-1833 in California and Oregon. University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology 43 (3): 303 -26. 1955b The Aboriginal Population of the San Joaquin Valley, California. University of California Anthropological Records 16 (2): 31 -78...
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Ethnohistory (2001) 48 (3): 518–519.
Published: 01 July 2001
... spread of the most serious epidemics and chronic afflic-
tions: smallpox, venereal diseases, and tuberculosis (the latter Boyd argues
were indigenous to the Americas but were introduced as new variants to the
Northwest Coast with the arrival of Europeans), malaria, smallpox again
along with dysentery...
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Ethnohistory (2024) 71 (1): 87–112.
Published: 01 January 2024
... on the night that Juan Gregorio was arrested. A former magistrate in the small Nahua pueblo, Gregorio had offered his home as a sanctuary for those suffering during an epidemic of Matlazahuatl, an act that defied recent restrictions imposed by local authorities. 1 On 28 June 1806, Dr. José de Dios Salazar...
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Ethnohistory (2014) 61 (3): 582–583.
Published: 01 July 2014
... are every bit as important as microbes. Daschuk documents
the ravages of epidemics, the dislocation attendant to changing environ-
ments and economies, and finally the generally inept and often malicious
policies of the Canadian government that brought the aboriginal popula-
tion of the plains to its...
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Ethnohistory (2014) 61 (3): 391–418.
Published: 01 July 2014
... themselves.
Amerindians suffered dramatic population losses after 1492. This phe-
nomenon is generally attributed to an unprecedented mortality caused by
Old World–imported epidemic diseases, increasing warfare, and other pro-
cesses ultimately ascribed to Euro-American expansionism.1 At the same...
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