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Wild Frenchmen and Frenchified Indians : material culture and race in colonial Louisiana /
Based on a sweeping range of archival, visual, and material evidence, Wild Frenchmen and Frenchified Indians examines perceptions of Indians in French colonial Louisiana and demonstrates that material culture-especially dress-was central to the elaboration of discourses about race.At the heart of Fr...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
©2012.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Series: | Early American studies.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Introduction
- Part I. Frenchification in the Illinois Country
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. "Their Manner of Living"
- Chapter 2. "Nothing of the Sauvage"
- Chapter 3 "One People and One God"
- Part II. Frenchified Indians and Wild Frenchmen in New Orleans
- Introduction
- Chapter 4. "The First Creole from This Colony That We Have Received": Sister Ste. Marthe and the Limits of Frenchification
- Chapter 5. "To Ensure That He Not Give Himself Over to the Sauvages": Cleanliness, Grease, and Skin Color
- Chapter 6. "We Are All Sauvages": Frenchmen into Indians?
- Epilogue: "True French"
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Bibliography
- INDEX
- Acknowledgments