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Abstract

L'analyse ethnohistorique des archives de Fort Chimo, un comptoir de traite situe dans le Quebec arctique, montre une asymetrie dans la transmission de maladies infectieuses entre Inuit et commercants europeens de la Compagnie de la Baie d'Hudson. Une enumeration de la nature et de la frequence des pathologies qui ont affecte ces deux groupes entre 1866 et 1903 revele que les maladies contractees par les Inuit (notamment le virus de l'influenza, la coqueluche, la scarlatine et la tuberculose) resultent de leurs contacts avec les Europeens, alors que les pathologies qui ont affecte ces derniers (presque exclusivement des maladies parasitaires telles l'echinococcose et la trichinose) proviennent du milieu geographique dans lequel ils se trouvaient.

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Ethnohistorical analysis of the archives of Fort Chimo, a trading post located in Arctic Quebec, shows an asymmetry in the transmission of infectious diseases between Inuit and European traders of the Hudson's Bay Company. An enumeration of the nature and frequency of the pathologies which affected these two groups between 1866 and 1903 reveals that the diseases contracted by the Inuit (in particular the influenza virus, whooping cough, scarlet fever and tuberculosis) result from their contacts with Europeans, whereas the pathologies which affected them (almost exclusively parasitic diseases such as echinococcosis and trichinosis) came from the geographical environment in which they found themselves.

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Title
"The Esquimaux seem to be dying off very fast": Etude ethnohistorique des maladies a Fort Chimo, district d'Ungava (1866 a 1903)
Author
Kroes, Genevieve
Publication year
1998
Publisher
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses
ISBN
978-0-612-38122-3
Source type
Dissertation or Thesis
Language of publication
French
ProQuest document ID
304472366
Copyright
Database copyright ProQuest LLC; ProQuest does not claim copyright in the individual underlying works.