...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...

... 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...

...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...

... morbidity and mortality rates for native American peoples in the aftermath of European conquest. Alchon critiques the idea of ‘‘New World exceptionalism’’ regarding epidemic disease, the idea that smallpox, measles, and the bubonic plague had a more catastrophic effect on native American than Old World...

... of, and explanations for, the horrific morbidity and mortality rates for native American peoples in the aftermath of European conquest. Alchon critiques the idea of ‘‘New World exceptionalism’’ regarding epidemic disease, the idea that smallpox, measles, and the bubonic plague had a more catastrophic effect...

... morbidity and mortality rates for native American peoples in the aftermath of European conquest. Alchon critiques the idea of ‘‘New World exceptionalism’’ regarding epidemic disease, the idea that smallpox, measles, and the bubonic plague had a more catastrophic effect on native American than Old World...

... 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...

..., 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...

... and George J. Armelagos, eds. Pp. 439 -61. Orlando, fl: Academic. Dobson, Mary J. 1987 A Chronology of Epidemic Disease and Mortality in Southeast England, 1601-1800 . Historical Geography Research Group Publication, No.19. London: Institute of British Geographers. 1989 Mortality Gradients...

...). Disease In September 1827, about seventy Kansa died of illness, and the follow- ing month William Clark reported that two-thirds of the tribe were sick (Barry 1972: 146; Unrau 1971: 41). Not since the 1750s had a large-scale epidemic been reported among the Kaw (Unrau 1971: 41, 149). Unfortu...

... 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...

... of abandonment is clear enough. Whatever the 1837 epidemic disease was, it left Pecos survivors so demoralized that they emigrated to Jemez Pueblo. Ethnohistory 49:1 (winter 2002) Copyright © by the American Society for Ethnohistory...

... Indian Reserva- tion south of Tucson, and the Fiesta de San Francisco Xavier in Magdalena, Sonora, Mexico.6 While reviewing parish archives in Sonora, Dobyns real- ized the extent of the unequal burden of mortality from epidemic diseases among native peoples. Telling the story of indigenous...

... takes up these various responses during the Matlazahuatl epidemic (1805–13) to consider how Nahua families made sense of both contagious disease and the vaccine, foregrounding their concerns, beliefs, and expectations—of both immunization and religious and public health officials at the time. Parents...

...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...

..., these stories of disease, both personal ac- counts of particular individuals and communities and mythologized nar- ratives, powerfully convey native explanations for the epidemics and their efforts to combat them. Afflicted communities sometimes blamed them- selves but just as often, if not more often, saw...

..., and Yurok. Fourth, while Madley’s tally of killings is more than twice that of Cook’s, epidemics, not violence, still remained by far the greater factor in Native mortality, a fact that Madley acknowledges but never squarely confronts, tending instead to submerge the role of disease beneath his thick...

... was influenced by printed books. The section in this chapter titled “The Impact of Epidemic Disease” feels almost prescient in light of the current coronavirus pandemic. Here Rajagopalan highlights the individual voice of the tlacuilo , who records personal entries during the plague of 1576. During the epidemic...

... of Tradition . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Hohenthal, William D. 2001 Tipai Ethnographic Notes: A Baja California Indian Community at Mid-Century . Ballena Press Anthropological Papers Number 48. Novato, CA: Ballena Press. Jackson, Robert H. 1981 Epidemic Disease and Population Decline...

... to a smallpox epidemic that swept through the Province of Honduras. Sources estimate that 550 Xicaque perished due to disease at the misiones of San Miguel del Carmen, Santiago de Siriano, Santa Cruz, and San Francisco de Luquigüe. The population figures at each of the misiones after the smallpox epidemic...