Smallpox Diffusion Between Small and Dispersed Historic Native American Populations
Wolforth, Lynne Mackin
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Description
Title
Smallpox Diffusion Between Small and Dispersed Historic Native American Populations
Author(s)
Wolforth, Lynne Mackin
Issue Date
1997
Doctoral Committee Chair(s)
Lewis, R. Barry
Department of Study
Anthropology
Discipline
Anthropology
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Degree Level
Dissertation
Keyword(s)
History, United States
Language
eng
Abstract
This research argues that infectious disease diffusion ahead of its introduction at a frontier cannot be assumed to have been a uniform, wave-like-process. Instead, diffusion probably took an idiosyncratic path that followed the kinds of interaction that best promoted transmission. The results of this study support the contention that researchers of each culture area must define for themselves when and where epidemics affected specific populations by studying local types and frequencies of interaction.
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