Human biologists in the archives : demography, health, nutrition, and genetics in historical populations
- نوع فایل : کتاب
- زبان : انگلیسی
- مؤلف : Ann Herring; Alan C Swedlund
- ناشر : Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press,
- چاپ و سال / کشور: 2003
- شابک / ISBN : 9780511056970
Description
Contents Contributors page ix Foreword by Sydel Silverman and Michael A. Little xi Acknowledgements xvii 1 Human biologists in the archives: demography, health, nutrition and genetics in historical populations 1 ALAN C. SWEDLUND and D. ANN HERRING 2 The use of archives in the study of microevolution: changing demography and epidemiology in Escaz´u, Costa Rica 11 LORENA MADRIGAL 3 Anthropometric data and population history 32 JOHN H. RELETHFORD 4 For everything there is a season: Chumash Indian births, marriages, and deaths at the Alta California missions 53 PHILLIP L. WALKER and JOHN R. JOHNSON 5 Children of the poor: infant mortality in the Erie County Almshouse during the mid nineteenth century 78 ROSANNE L. HIGGINS 6 Worked to the bone: the biomechanical consequences of ‘labor therapy’ at a nineteenth century asylum 96 SHAWN M. PHILLIPS 7 Monitored growth: anthropometrics and health history records at a private New England middle school, 1935–1960 130 LYNETTE LEIDY SIEVERT 8 Scarlet fever epidemics of the nineteenth century: a case of evolved pathogenic virulence? 159 ALAN C. SWEDLUND and ALISON K. DONTA 9 The ecology of a health crisis: Gibraltar and the 1865 cholera epidemic 178 LAWRENCE A. SAWCHUK and STACIE D.A. BURKE vii viii Contents 10 War and population composition in A˚ land, Finland 216 JAMES H. MIELKE 11 Infectious diseases in the historical archives: a modeling approach 234 LISA SATTENSPIEL 12 Where were the women? 266 ANNE L. GRAUER 13 Malnutrition among northern peoples of Canada in the 1940s: an ecological and economic disaster 289 D. ANN HERRING, SYLVIA ABONYI and ROBERT D. HOPPA 14 Archival research in physical anthropology 311 MALCOLM T. SMITH Index 337
Series Title: Cambridge studies in biological and evolutionary anthropology.
