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