HIST 1080 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Cultural Appropriation, Hospital Ship, Early Summer
26 Jan 2018
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History: slow disasters: symptoms that don"t matter until there is crisis. Focus of today: how slow disasters can create cultural disasters: disruption of cultural norms. Infectious disease usually a ects the lungs: ancient disease, bison found with tb, from 17000 years ago. Tb was usually associated with vampires due to the symptom. Tb bacteria went found until recantly, and the antibiotics wasn"t discovered until recently: a ects poor populations. The scream painting: painters family died from tb. Important part played during the cold war: plays a huge part for inuits. The people of the north played a huge part of the story: hunting and gathering lifestyle by the ancestors of inuits, anxiety based o geographical location of canada in relation to russia. The yukon territory has strong radio signal due to magnetic north: canada is anxious about soviet aggression and invasion, also nervous about. America because they wish to occupy the far north.
