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  • From: "Anne Schwarz" <sennaflight@hotmail.com>
  • To: permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [permaculture]
  • Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 23:28:51 -0500

Hello~
I am an art student at the Rhode Island School of Design. Right now I am working on a piece that is based on information I found in an article in the Atlantic Monthly's March 2002 issue about America before Columbus. The article covered many of the permaculture practices that the Amerindians used, particularly in the Amazon. It also covered the many epidemics that wiped out their population. I am particularly interested in a statement about the South American population's immune system being different in that it was unusually homogonous compared to other cultures.

If anybody knows more about this or anything to do with MHC types, I would be greatly interested in knowing more. I am trying to create a diagram(s) relating the homogenous MHC types in Amerindians and how it relates to the Europeans they were encountering, as well as relating it to the cultural differences between the two worlds.

I know this is tangental to the permaculture list, but any information or help people could give me would be most appreciated!

Thanks so very much,
Anne Schwarz




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