Infectious Disease And The Northern Plains Horticulturists

A Human Behavior Model

Bibliographic Data

ID9218334
AuthorsMichael K Trimble (corresponding author)
Year1989
Volume34
Issue124
Pages41-59
Publication date1989-05-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenuePlains Anthropologist (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0032-0447 • E-ISSN: 2052-546X
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/2052546.1989.11909518
PMID11613903
OpenAlexW2248886781
LanguageEN
Citations received8

Epidemics represented one of the major factors responsible for altering Plains Village societies during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. A human-behavior model is used to analyze historical-period disease phenomena among Plains Villagers. The model emphasizes the dynamics of disease systems as well as individual and community responses. The model identifies where the specific disease-related behaviors of exposure, shedding, transmission, and diffusion occurred within a Plains Village. The human behavior spheres most significant to the spread of infectious disease within a Plains village community were found to be: (a) the individual, (b) the household, (c) the extended family/clan, (d) the production area, (e) area of further-ranging contact, (f) the earth lodge village, and (g) Euro American settlement. The spread of epidemic disease within these spheres is examined

Archaeology · Biology · Clan · Disease · Disease transmission · Epidemic disease · Geography · Human settlement · Infectious disease (medical specialty) · Settlement (finance) · Social organization · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology · Anthropology · Demography · History · Medicine · Virology

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