Wild Frenchmen and Frenchified Indians : Material Culture and Race in Colonial Louisiana /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: White, Sophie
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Race relations.
Race awareness.
Material culture.
Indians of North America.
French.
Clothing and dress > Social aspects.
Français > Louisiane > Histoire > 18e siecle.
Conscience de race > Louisiane > Histoire > 18e siecle.
Culture materielle > Louisiane > Histoire > 18e siecle.
French > Louisiana > History > 18th century.
Indians of North America > Louisiana > History > 18th century.
Race awareness > Louisiana > History > 18th century.
Material culture > Louisiana > History > 18th century.
Clothing and dress > Social aspects > Louisiana > History > 18th century.
Louisiana.
Louisiane > Relations raciales > Histoire > 18e siecle.
Louisiana > Race relations > History > 18th century.
History.
Electronic books.
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

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