Indigenous People and Smallpox in Argentina’s Desert Campaign, 1879–1881

IF 0.3 3区历史学 Q4 ANTHROPOLOGY

Ethnohistory Pub Date : 2024-01-01 DOI:10.1215/00141801-10888061

Robert Christensen

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Abstract

Argentina’s 1879–85 Desert Campaign formed the basis for dispossessing the Indigenous community of its southern frontier. This article argues that the Desert Campaign should be understood as much as an epidemiological event as a military one, focusing on the most intense phase of a smallpox epidemic that ravaged communities of Indigenous survivors. More lives were lost to smallpox than to combat, particularly as the disease permeated prisoner camps. A general lack of concern for the health of Indigenous prisoners punctuated their experience of dispossession at the hands of the Argentine army and “distribution” into forced labor systems throughout the country.

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1879-1881 年阿根廷沙漠战役中的原住民与天花

阿根廷 1879-85 年的沙漠战役为剥夺其南部边境土著社区的财产奠定了基础。本文认为，沙漠战役既是一场军事战役，也是一场流行病学战役，其重点是肆虐土著幸存者社区的天花疫情的最严重阶段。死于天花的人比死于战斗的人更多，特别是当疾病蔓延到战俘营时。对土著囚犯的健康普遍缺乏关注，这加剧了他们在阿根廷军队手中被剥夺财产并被 "分配 "到全国各地的强迫劳动系统的经历。

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期刊介绍： Ethnohistory reflects the wide range of current scholarship inspired by anthropological and historical approaches to the human condition. Of particular interest are those analyses and interpretations that seek to make evident the experience, organization, and identities of indigenous, diasporic, and minority peoples that otherwise elude the histories and anthropologies of nations, states, and colonial empires. The journal publishes work from the disciplines of geography, literature, sociology, and archaeology, as well as anthropology and history. It welcomes theoretical and cross-cultural discussion of ethnohistorical materials and recognizes the wide range of academic disciplines.