Jones (2003) Old World Infectious Diseases in the Plateau Area of North America during the Protohistoric: Rethinking Our Understanding of "Contact" in the Plateau

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Old World Infectious Diseases in the Plateau Area of North America during the Protohistoric: Rethinking Our Understanding of "Contact" in the Plateau

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CONTRIBUTORS:

Author:

Jones, Peter N. (b. 1975, d. ----)

JOURNAL:

Journal of Northwest Anthropology, 37(1), 1 - 26.

YEAR:

2003

PUB TYPE:

Journal Article

SUBJECT(S):

Medical Anthropology, American Indians, Plateau, Smallpox, History of the American West, Nez Perce

DISCIPLINE:

Anthropology/Archaeology

HTTP:

http://www.bauuinstitute.com/Articles/DiseaseWebversion.htm

LANGUAGE:

English

PUB ID:

103-412-444 (Last edited on 2005/02/09 14:30:45 US/Mountain)

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ABSTRACT:
Postcolonial, Oriental, and other re-visionary theories have been popular in the African, Oceanic, Middle Eastern, and Asian literature for several years, allowing anthropologists, historians, and others to rethink much of their understanding of the peoples in these areas prior to, during, and after initial Western contact. However, little of these same theoretical methods have been applied in North America, principally because North America has not usually been conceived of as having a colonial past. This paper, by way of looking at the possibility of Old World infectious diseases reaching the Plateau region during the protohistoric (A.D. 1600-1804), begins the much-needed discourse on these topics. Through an analysis of ethnohistorical documents, recent anthropological and historical studies, and other sources, this paper concludes that Old World infectious diseases probably reached the Plateau region in the 1660s via the Southwest and Great Basin regions, with subsequent epidemics caused by Old World infectious diseases arriving from the Northern Plains in the early 1700s and from the Subarctic and Northwest Coast in the mid-1700s. However, what is even more important is that this paper allows us to begin rethinking our current, “solidified” understanding of American Indian peoples of the Plateau region during the late prehistoric, protohistoric, and early historic periods.

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