Anthropology Lecture: "Stalked by the Refuse Wind: Colonialism, Disease, and Structural Violence in New Mexico, 1540-1700 CE" by Dr. Matthew Liebman

Interior of San Jose de los Jemez Mission Church, northern New Mexico. Image by Theodore Greer.

Anthropology Department will host this lecture on Friday Nov. 15 at 3:00 PM, Lecture Center 12.
Light refreshments to follow in the Department.

Debates regarding the magnitude, tempo, and ecological effects of Native American population decline after 1492 constitute some of the most contentious issues in early American history. Was depopulation rapid and catastrophic, with effects extensive enough to change even the earth’s atmosphere? Or was this decline more moderate, with numbers of Native Americans waning slowly after European colonization? The results of recent collaborative research among archaeologists, dendrochronologists, and tribal members from the Pueblo of Jemez in northern New Mexico present unanticipated results, with consequences that extend beyond the borders of the American Southwest to anthropological studies of colonialism more generally.