Disease Transfer at Contact
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3010004 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Henry F Dobyns (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1993 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 273-291 |
| Publication date | 1993-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Annual Review of Anthropology (BOOK_SERIES) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0084-6570 • E-ISSN: 1545-4290 |
| Publisher | Annual Reviews (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1146/annurev.anthro.22.1.273 |
| OpenAlex | W4240903228 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 45 |
| References cited | 7 |
Disease transfer at between peoples is attracting increasing research and interpretive attention from anthropologists, historians, ethnohistorians, Native Americanists, and medical doctors. Historically, massive and frequent disease transfers resulted in a crash in the Native American population and contact shock in the Americas (81:2; 82). Mooney (69) explicitly recognized the impact of epidemic diseases on Native North Americans. Anthropologists of the 1930s ignored that aspect of Mooney's native population analysis, while arguing instead about population magnitudes. Physiologist S. F. Cook (24) began in 1937 to publish studies of the impact of Old World diseases on Native North Americans. Even though Cook collab orated with archeographers, 1 anthropologists of the period ignored his epide miological publications. Anthropologists may have been reluctant to recognize that Darwinian evolutionary theory applies to human beings (76:37), regard less of human culture. In 1966, I pointed out methodological flaws in anthropological analyses of Native American population magnitudes that ignored the biological reality of Old World contagious diseases during post-Columbian times (32). Ten years later, a critical bibliography on Native North American historical demography reemphasized the crucial role of Old World contagious diseases (33) in what
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Population Decline during and after Conquest
Earth system impacts of the European arrival and Great Dying in the Americas after 1492
Smallpox and American Indians Revisited
Enfermedad y miedo a la muerte
Eastern North American Population at ca. A.D. 1500
Non-metric variation in recent humans as a model for understanding Neanderthal-early modern human differences
Adna evidence of the introduction of infectious diseases in the Americas
Reframing Interpretation of the Juvenility Index
Paternal heritage in Jujuy province (Northwest Argentina)
Evaluating life history trade‐offs through the presence of linear enamel hypoplasia at Pueblo Bonito and Hawikku
Pacific Islanders and Amerindian relatedness according to HLA autosomal genes
Original Synthetic Report
The dilemma of contact
Timing of occupation and regional settlement patterns revealed by time-series analyses of an archaeological radiocarbon database for the South-Central Andes (16°–25°S)
Late Holocene high-resolution paleoenvironmental reconstruction from Beaver Lake in the northwest lowlands of the Olympic Peninsula, Washington (USA)
Colonialist primitive accumulation
Once a Carib, Always a Carib
The legacy of post-Columbian disturbance in shaping a northwestern Amazonian forest
Anthropological studies of disease
Mapping the Proposed Caribbean Zoonotic (Swine Influenza) Epidemic of 1493 As a Geographic Model of Infectious Virus Dispersion
Peopling the last new worlds
Neanderthals Revisited
An ancient DNA test of a founder effect in Native American ABO blood group frequencies
Molecular characterization of ABO blood group frequencies in pre‐Columbian Peruvian highlanders
Unexpected patterns of mitochondrial DNA variation among Native Americans from the Southeastern United States
In the wake of Columbus
The impact of founder effects, gene flow, and European admixture on native American genetic diversity
Towards Understanding the Health Vulnerability of Indigenous Peoples Living in Voluntary Isolation in the Amazon Rainforest
Dental Health Decline in the Chesapeake Bay, Virginia
Utu
Towards a Context for Late Precontact Culture Change
Indian warfare, household competency, and the settlement of the western Virginia frontier, 1749 to 1794
The pristine and devenir in long-term indigenous history in the Amazon
The Columbian Exchange
Sickness, Starvation, and Death in Early Hispaniola
Local histories and global theories in Colombian Pacific coast archaeolgy
Um aroma no ar
Advances in the Study of the Origin of Humanness
Toward an Understanding of Borderland Processes
Emerging and Re-Emerging Infectious Diseases
Dynamics of Indigenous Demographic Fluctuations
Rainfall, Patio Living, and Crisis Mortality in a Small-Scale Society
Dark Winter and the Spring of 1972
Demographic transitions, health, and population crises in the postcontact Western Hemisphere
Disease Episodes and the Historical Record
Demographic Change in Northwestern New Spain
American Indian Population Recovery following Smallpox Epidemics
Sixteenth-Century Tusayan
European Contact and Indian Depopulation in the Northeast
History, Structure, and Survival
Smallpox and Climate in the American Southwest
| Unique citing works | 44 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,41 |
| Citation span | 1994 - 2026 (33) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 45 |