Pestilence and Persistence - Yosemite Indian Demography and Culture in Colonial California
Yosemite Indian Demography And Culture In Colonial California
- Editore:
University of California Press
- EAN:
9780520258471
- ISBN:
0520258479
- Pagine:
- 360
- Formato:
- Hardback
- Lingua:
- Inglese
Descrizione Pestilence and Persistence - Yosemite Indian Demography and Culture in Colonial California
"This is not just a book about the Yosemite Indians but a landmark contribution to the study of North American historical demography. Kathleen Hull's writing, remarkably lucid and flowing, is a delight to read."--Dean R. Snow, President, Society for American Archaeology
""Pestilence and Persistence" evaluates competing theories about the effects of introduced diseases on historic Native American communities. Through comparative study of the Yosemite Indians with native groups in ten other regions of North America, Kathleen Hull demonstrates that Native American populations responded to colonial epidemics with flexible strategies that promoted cultural and demographic survival. This empirically rigorous and well-crafted book will be an invaluable resource for historians and anthropologists of North America's colonial era and for any scholar investigating the cultural consequences of epidemic disease."--Barbara L. Voss, author of "The Archaeology of Ethnogenesis"
