Disease and Death in Early Colonial Mexico: Simulating Amerindian Depopulation
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
Identity Transformation in Colonial Northern Mexico
In 1754, Spanish officials and Catholic missionaries in the province of Sinaloa, located in northwestern Mexico, debated the wisdom of requiring local Indians to pay tribute to the King of Spain while exempting certain non-Indian settlers from such payments. A Jesuit missionary, whose opinion but not his name is preserved in the historical record, argued against the measure, indicating that the...
متن کاملEnigmatic Texts and Multiple Voices in Colonial Central Mexico
Many colonial textual genres written either in Spanish or in native languages by indigenous authors within the Mesoamerican cultural area share three features that distinguish them as a group, when compared to other writings by native subjects in Asia, Africa, or other regions of the Americas. These texts often reference an "immemorial" past with distinct sociopolitical rights and traditions wh...
متن کاملEvaluation of forensic and anthropological potential of D9S1120 in Mestizos and Amerindian populations from Mexico
AIM To carry out a deeper forensic and anthropological evaluation of the short tandem repeat (STR) D9S1120 in five Mestizo populations and eight Amerindian groups from Mexico. METHODS We amplified the STR D9S1120 based on primers and conditions described by Phillips et al, followed by capillary electrophoresis in the genetic analyzer ABI Prism 310. Genotypes were analyzed with the GeneMapper ...
متن کاملHomosexuals and the death penalty in colonial America.
This article traces the legislative history of statues prescribing the death penalty for sodomy in 17th-century New England and in the other American colonies. New England and some middle colonies broke with English legal tradition by adopting explicitly biblical language. After the Revolution, Pennsylvania took the lead, in 1786, in dropping the death penalty.
متن کاملOpportunity Cost for Early Treatment of Chagas Disease in Mexico
BACKGROUND Given current neglect for Chagas disease in public health programs in Mexico, future healthcare and economic development policies will need a more robust model to analyze costs and impacts of timely clinical attention of infected populations. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS A Markov decision model was constructed to simulate the natural history of a Chagas disease cohort in Mexico a...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Hispanic American Historical Review
سال: 1993
ISSN: 0018-2168,1527-1900
DOI: 10.1215/00182168-73.4.695