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Type II diabetes mellitus: technological development and the Oklahoma Cherokee
Encounters with biomedicine : case studies in medical anthropology • 1 • Published In 1987 • Pages: 43-71
By: Wiedman, Dennis William.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This case study in medical anthropology details the technological developments which happened concurrently with the first detrimental symptoms of type II diabetes mellitus among the Cherokee of Oklahoma following the year 1940. Previous to this year there were no reported diabetic cases among Oklahoma Native Americans, but by the 1960s this disease have reached epidemic proportions. Based on ethnographic, historic and archaeological records the author documents the Cherokee's rapid cultural change from an agricultural to an industrial economy over a ten year period from 1936 to 1946. This infrastructural change resulted in nutritional and lifestyle changes which contributed to obesity and the onset of detrimental diabetic symptoms (p. 66).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Theoretical orientation in research and its results
- Genetics
- Nutrition
- Morbidity
- Tillage
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Cherokee
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2000
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Eastern Woodlands
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Physician
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 2006
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1977-1979
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1838-1990
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- southeastern states and Oklahoma, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Dennis W. Wiedman
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 66-71)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 87011988
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Cherokee Indians