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

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

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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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook Package American History
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White, Sophie,
Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2013]
©2013
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
Series:Early American Studies
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Physical Description:1 online resource (360 p.) :; 33 color, 17 b/w
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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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