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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Smallpox Diffusion Between Small and Dispersed Historic Native American Populations
Abstract
dc:descriptionThis 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.
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Ph.D.
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Dissertation
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- Anthropology
- Grantor
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Year dc:date
- 2015
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Wolforth, Lynne Mackin
- Contributors dc:contributor
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- Lewis, R. Barry
Subjects
dc:subject × 1Rights
- Language dc:language
- eng
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Identifier
- (MiAaPQ)AAI9717347
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/85303