HumanBiologistsintheArchives Many physical anthropologists study populations using data that come primarilyfromthehistoricalrecord.Forthisvolume’sauthors,theclas- sicanthropological‘field’isnottheglamourofanexoticlocale,butthe sometimestediumofthedustybackroomsoflibraries,archivesandmu- seumcollections.Thisbooktellsofthewayinwhicharchivaldatainform anthropologicalquestionsabouthumanbiologyandhealth.Theauthors present a diverse array of human biological evidence from a variety of sources including the archeological record, medical collections, church records, contemporary health and growth data and genetic information fromthedescendantsofhistoricalpopulations.Thechaptersdemonstrate howtheanalysisofhistoricaldocumentsexpandsthehorizonsofresearch inhumanbiology,extendsthelongitudinalanalysisofmicroevolutionary andsocialprocessesintothepresentandenhancesourunderstandingof thehumancondition. D. Ann Herring is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthro- pologyatMcMasterUniversityinHamilton,Canada.Hercurrentinterests centerontheanthropologyofinfectiousdisease,historicaldemography andepidemiology,environmentalhealthandAboriginalhealthinCanada. Shehasco-authoredAboriginalHealthinCanada:Historical,Cultural andEpidemiologicalPerspectives(1995)withJamesWaldramandT.Kue Young,andco-editedStrengthinDiversity:AReaderinPhysicalAnthro- pology(1994)withLeslieK.-Y.Chan,andGraveReflections:Portraying thePastThroughCemeteryStudies(1995)withShelleyR.Saunders. AlanC.SwedlundisProfessorofAnthropologyandResearchAssociate in the Social and Demographic Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is also a Research Associate at the New MexicoStateMuseumofIndianArtsandCulture/LaboratoryofAnthro- pology.Hisresearchinterestsareinanthropologicaldemography,histor- icalepidemiology,andthehistoryofphysicalanthropology. CambridgeStudiesinBiologicalandEvolutionaryAnthropology SeriesEditors HUMAN ECOLOGY C.G.NicholasMascie-Taylor,UniversityofCambridge MichaelA.Little,StateUniversityofNewYork,Binghamton GENETICS KennethM.Weiss,PennsylvaniaStateUniversity HUMAN EVOLUTION RobertA.Foley,UniversityofCambridge NinaG.Jablonski,CaliforniaAcademyofScience PRIMATOLOGY KarenB.Strier,UniversityofWisconsin,Madison ConsultingEditor EmeritusProfessorDerekF.Roberts Selectedtitlesalsointheseries 16 HumanEnergeticsinBiologicalAnthropologyStanleyJ.Ulijaszek 0521432952 17 HealthConsequencesof‘Modernisation’RoyJ.Shephard&AndersRode 0521474019 18 TheEvolutionofModernHumanDiversityMartaM.Lahr0521473934 19 VariabilityinHumanFertilityLylianeRosetta&C.G.N.Mascie-Taylor (eds.)0521495695 20 AnthropologyofModernHumanTeethG.RichardScott&ChristyG.TurnerII 0521455081 21 BioarchaeologyClarkS.Larsen052149641(hardback),0521658349 (paperback) 22 ComparativePrimateSocioecologyP.C.Lee(ed.)0521593360 23 PatternsofHumanGrowth,secondeditionBarryBogin0521564387 (paperback) 24 MigrationandColonisationinHumanMicroevolutionAlanFix0521592062 25 HumanGrowthinthePastRobertD.Hoppa&CharlesM.FitzGerald(eds.) 052163153X 26 HumanPaleobiologyRobertB.Eckhardt0521451604 27 MountainGorillasMarthaM.Robbins,PascaleSicotte&KellyJ.Stewart (eds.)0521760047 28 EvolutionandGeneticsofLatinAmericanPopulationsFranciscoM.Salzano& MariaC.Bortolini0521652758 Human Biologists in the Archives Demography, Health, Nutrition and Genetics in Historical Populations EDITED BY D. ANN HERRING McMasterUniversity and ALAN C. SWEDLUND UniversityofMassachusetts,Amherst Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, São Paulo Cambridge University Press The Edinburgh Building, Cambridge , United Kingdom Published in the United States of America by Cambridge University Press, New York www.cambridge.org Information on this title: www.cambridge.org/9780521801041 © Cambridge University Press 2003 This book is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provision of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press. First published in print format 2002 isbn--13 978-0-511-06330-5 eBook (NetLibrary) isbn--10 0-511-06330-X eBook (NetLibrary) isbn--13 978-0-521-80104-1 hardback isbn--10 0-521-80104-4 hardback Cambridge University Press has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of s for external or third-party internet websites referred to in this book, and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate. Contents Contributors pageix ForewordbySydelSilvermanandMichaelA.Little xi Acknowledgements xvii 1 Human biologists in the archives: demography, health, nutrition andgeneticsinhistoricalpopulations 1 ALAN C. SWEDLUND and D. ANN HERRING 2 The use of archives in the study of microevolution: changing demographyandepidemiologyinEscazu´,CostaRica 11 LORENA MADRIGAL 3 Anthropometricdataandpopulationhistory 32 JOHN H. RELETHFORD 4 Foreverythingthereisaseason:ChumashIndianbirths,marriages, anddeathsattheAltaCaliforniamissions 53 PHILLIP L. WALKER and JOHN R. JOHNSON 5 Children of the poor: infant mortality in the Erie County Almshouseduringthemidnineteenthcentury 78 ROSANNE L. HIGGINS 6 Worked to the bone: the biomechanical consequences of ‘labor therapy’atanineteenthcenturyasylum 96 SHAWN M. PHILLIPS 7 Monitoredgrowth:anthropometricsandhealthhistoryrecordsat aprivateNewEnglandmiddleschool,1935–1960 130 LYNETTE LEIDY SIEVERT 8 Scarletfeverepidemicsofthenineteenthcentury:acaseofevolved pathogenicvirulence? 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 WarandpopulationcompositioninA˚land,Finland 216 JAMES H. MIELKE 11 Infectiousdiseasesinthehistoricalarchives:amodelingapproach 234 LISA SATTENSPIEL 12 Wherewerethewomen? 266 ANNE L. GRAUER 13 Malnutrition among northern peoples of Canada in the 1940s: anecologicalandeconomicdisaster 289 D. ANN HERRING, SYLVIA ABONYI and ROBERT D. HOPPA 14 Archivalresearchinphysicalanthropology 311 MALCOLM T. SMITH Index 337 Contributors SylviaAbonyi SaskatchewanPopulationHealthandEvaluationResearchUnit(SPHERU), DepartmentofCommunityHealthandEpidemiology,Universityof Saskatchewan,Saskatoon,SaskatchewanS7N5E5,Canada StacieD.A.Burke DepartmentofAnthropology,McMasterUniversity,Hamilton,OntarioL8S4L9, Canada AlisonK.Donta MassachusettsInstituteforSocialandEconomicResearch,Universityof MassachusettsatAmherst,Amherst,MA01003-4805,USA AnneL.Grauer DepartmentofSociologyandAnthropology,LoyolaUniversityChicago,6525N SheridanRoad,Chicago,IL60626,USA D.AnnHerring DepartmentofAnthropology,McMasterUniversity,Hamilton,OntarioL8S4L9, Canada RosanneL.Higgins DepartmentofHealthSciences,ClevelandStateUniversity,1983East24thStreet, Cleveland,OH44115-2440,USA RobertD.Hoppa DepartmentofAnthropology,UniversityofManitoba,Winnipeg,ManitobaR3T 5V5,Canada JohnR.Johnson DepartmentofAnthropology,SantaBarbaraMuseumofNaturalHistory,Santa Barbara,CA93105,USA LynetteLeidySievert DepartmentofAnthropology,MachmerHall,UniversityofMassachusettsat Amherst,Amherst,MA01003-4805,USA MichaelA.Little DepartmentofAnthropology,BinghamtonUniversity,StateUniversityof NewYork,Binghamton,NY13902-6000,USA ix
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