Sharks upon the Land: Colonialism, Indigenous Health, and Culture in Hawai’i, 1778-1855 (Studies in North American Indian History)

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Historian Seth Archer traces the cultural have an effect on of disease and health problems within the Hawaiian Islands from the arriving of Europeans to 1855. Colonialism in Hawaiʻi started with epidemiological incursions, and Archer argues that health remained the national crisis of the islands for more than a century. Introduced diseases ended in reduced life spans, rising infertility and infant mortality, and persistent poor health for generations of Islanders, leaving a deep imprint on Hawaiian culture and national consciousness. Scholars have noted the role of epidemics within the depopulation of Hawaiʻi and broader Oceania, yet few have thought to be the interplay between colonialism, health, and culture – including Native religion, medicine, and gender. This have a look at emphasizes Islanders’ own ideas about, and responses to, health challenges at the local level. In the end, Hawaiʻi provides a case have a look at for health and culture change among Indigenous populations around the Americas and the Pacific.

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