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Native Society and Disease in Colonial Ecuador

Native Society and Disease in Colonial Ecuador

Alchon, Suzanne Austin
Knight, Alan

Paperback

Series: Cambridge Latin American Studies, Book 71

Medieval & Renaissance HistorySouth American History

ISBN10: 052152945X
ISBN13: 9780521529457
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Jul 18 2002
Pages: 168
Weight: 0.58
Height: 0.44 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.12
Language: English
This book examines the relationship between indigenous populations in the north-central highlands of Ecuador and disease, especially those infections introduced by Europeans during the sixteenth century. Disease, of course, existed in the Americas long before 1500. But just as native societies resisted and eventually adapted to European conquest, so too did they adapt to Old World pathogens. Just as the responses of Indian communities to the economic and political demands of Spaniards varied over time, so too did the immunological responses of indigenous populations change over generations. What began in the sixteenth century as contact and invasion soon would involve both Indians and Europeans in a new history of biological, as well as social, adaptation.

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