Wild Frenchmen and Frenchified Indians : material culture and race in colonial Louisiana /
Based on a range of archival, visual, and material evidence, this book examines perceptions of Indians in French colonial Louisiana and demonstrates that material culture--especially dress--was central to the elaboration of discourses about race.
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| Fformat: | Licensed eBooks |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press
©2012.
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| Rhifyn: | 1st ed. |
| Cyfres: | Early American studies.
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| Mynediad Ar-lein: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt3fj593 |
Tabl Cynhwysion:
- Frenchification in the Illinois country. "Their manner of living"
- "Nothing of the Sauvage"
- "One people and one god"
- Frenchified indians and wild frenchmen in New Orleans. "The first Creole from this colony that we have received": Sister Ste. Marthe and the limits of frenchification
- "To ensure that he not give himself over to the sauvages": cleanliness, crease, and skin color
- "We are all sauvages": Frenchmen into Indians
- Epilogue: "true French."