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From Columbus to COVID-19: Amerindian
Antecedents to the Global Pandemic
- Journal of Latin American Geography
- University of Texas Press
- Ahead of Print: JLAG Perspectives Forum: COVID-19 in Latin America
- 10.1353/lag.0.0138
- Article
- Additional Information
Abstract
The eruption and spread of COVID-19 affords us the opportunity to look back and reflect on the role disease has played in shaping Indigenous destinies in the Americas. This essay illuminates problems of data, chronology, impact, and identification in four geographical settings— Hispaniola, Mexico, Guatemala, and Ecuador/Peru—and situates these regional findings, historically, in hemispheric and global context.
Keywords
Columbus; COVID-19; Old World disease; Amerindian depopulation; Hispaniola; Mexico; Guatemala; Ecuador; Peru
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