Pestilence and persistence : Yosemite Indian demography and culture in colonial California / Kathleen L. Hull.

  • Hull, Kathleen L. (Kathleen Louann), 1959-
Date:
[2009], ©2009
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Publication/Creation

Berkeley ; London : University of California Press, [2009], ©2009.

Physical description

xiv, 374 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Disentangling colonial encounters -- Multiple perspectives on a critical time -- Colonial encounters in Yosemite Valley -- The people of Awahnee -- Peopling the past -- A tradition of survival : archaeological evidence for Awahnichi depopulation -- Daily practices in a changing world -- Hol'-low and he-le'-jah : cultural continuity and change -- The colonial experience : epidemic disease and cultural outcomes elsewhere in North America -- Culture, history, and colonialism.

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    History of Medicine
    FF.695
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  • 9780520258471
  • 0520258479