Trade Ornament Usage Among the Native Peoples of Canada

Trade Ornament Usage Among the Native Peoples of Canada
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Publisher : Canadian Government Publishing
Total Pages : 268
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015029210641
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Synopsis Trade Ornament Usage Among the Native Peoples of Canada by : Karlis Karklins

Study describes in chronological order how the various trade ornaments (material culture) were used from initial contact to circa 1900 by representative tribes of the seven major native groups of Canada. Based on extensive search of published and manuscript sources, supplemented by examination of historical paintings, photographs and ethnographical specimens.

TRADE ORNAMENT USAGE AMONG THE NATIVE PEOPLES OF CANADA - A SOURCE BOOK.

TRADE ORNAMENT USAGE AMONG THE NATIVE PEOPLES OF CANADA - A SOURCE BOOK.
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Total Pages : 100
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ISBN-10 : OCLC:1315017997
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Synopsis TRADE ORNAMENT USAGE AMONG THE NATIVE PEOPLES OF CANADA - A SOURCE BOOK. by : CANADA. DEPARTMENT OF THE ENVIRONMENT. PARKS CANADA DIRECTORATE. NATIONALHISTORIC PARKS AND SITES BRANCH.

Canadian Reference Sources

Canadian Reference Sources
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Publisher : UBC Press
Total Pages : 1102
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ISBN-10 : 077480565X
ISBN-13 : 9780774805650
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Synopsis Canadian Reference Sources by : Mary E. Bond

In parallel columns of French and English, lists over 4,000 reference works and books on history and the humanities, breaking down the large divisions by subject, genre, type of document, and province or territory. Includes titles of national, provincial, territorial, or regional interest in every subject area when available. The entries describe the core focus of the book, its range of interest, scholarly paraphernalia, and any editions in the other Canadian language. The humanities headings are arts, language and linguistics, literature, performing arts, philosophy, and religion. Indexed by name, title, and French and English subject. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

The Ojibwa of Western Canada 1780-1870

The Ojibwa of Western Canada 1780-1870
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Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
Total Pages : 309
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ISBN-10 : 9780887553806
ISBN-13 : 088755380X
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Synopsis The Ojibwa of Western Canada 1780-1870 by : Laura Peers

Among the most dynamic Aboriginal peoples in western Canada today are the Ojibwa, who have played an especially vital role in the development of an Aboriginal political voice at both levels of government. Yet, they are relative newcomers to the region, occupying the parkland and prairies only since the end of the 18th century. This work traces the origins of the western Ojibwa, their adaptations to the West, and the ways in which they have coped with the many challenges they faced in the first century of their history in that region, between 1780 and 1870. The western Ojibwa are descendants of Ojibwa who migrated from around the Great Lakes in the late 18th century. This was an era of dramatic change. Between 1780 and 1870, they survived waves of epidemic disease, the rise and decline of the fur trade, the depletion of game, the founding of non-Native settlement, the loss of tribal lands, and the government's assertion of political control over them. As a people who emerged, adapted, and survived in a climate of change, the western Ojibwa demonstrate both the effects of historic forces that acted upon Native peoples, and the spirit, determination, and adaptive strategies that the Native people have used to cope with those forces. This study examines the emergence of the western Ojibwa within this context, seeing both the cultural changes that they chose to make and the continuity within their culture as responses to historical pressures. The Ojibwa of Western Canada differs from earlier works by focussing closely on the details of western Ojibwa history in the crucial century of their emergence. It is based on documents to which pioneering scholars did not have access, including fur traders' and missionaries' journals, letters, and reminiscences. Ethnographic and archaeological data, and the evidence of material culture and photographic and art images, are also examined in this well-researched and clearly written history.

The Archaeology of Native-Lived Colonialism

The Archaeology of Native-Lived Colonialism
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Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Total Pages : 248
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ISBN-10 : 9780816502387
ISBN-13 : 0816502382
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Synopsis The Archaeology of Native-Lived Colonialism by : Neal Ferris

In reconsidering Native adaptation and resistance to colonial British rule, Ferris reviews five centuries of interaction that are usually read as a single event viewed through the lens of historical bias. He first examines patterns of traditional lifeway continuity among the Ojibwa, demonstrating their ability to maintain seasonal mobility up to the mid-nineteenth century and their adaptive response to its loss. He then looks at the experience of refugee Delawares, who settled among the Ojibwa as a missionary-sponsored community yet managed to maintain an identity distinct from missionary influences. And he shows how the archaeological history of the Six Nations Iroquois reflected patterns of negotiating emergent colonialism when they returned to the region in the 1780s, exploring how families managed tradition and the contemporary colonial world to develop innovative ways of revising and maintaining identity.

Material Worlds

Material Worlds
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Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Total Pages : 300
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ISBN-10 : 9781317327295
ISBN-13 : 1317327292
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Synopsis Material Worlds by : Barbara J. Heath

Material Worlds examines consumption from an archaeological perspective, broadly exploring the intersection of social relations and objects through the processes of production, distribution, use, reuse, and discard. Interrogating individual objects as well as considering the contexts in which acts of consumption take place, a range of case studies present the intertwined issues of power, inequality, identity, and community as mediated through choice, access, and use of the diversity of mass-produced goods. Key themes of this innovative volume include the relationship between colonial, political and economic structures and the practices of consumption, the use of consumer goods in the construction and negotiation of identity, and the dialectic between strategies of consumption and individual or community choices. Situating studies of consumerism within the field of historical archaeology, this exciting collection reflects on the interrelationship between the material and ideological aspects of culture. With a focus on North America from the seventeenth through the early twentieth centuries, Material Worlds is an important examination of consumption which will appeal to scholars with interests in colonialism, gender and race, as well as those engaged with the material culture of the emergent modern world.

International Handbook of Historical Archaeology

International Handbook of Historical Archaeology
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Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages : 689
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ISBN-10 : 9780387720715
ISBN-13 : 0387720715
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Synopsis International Handbook of Historical Archaeology by : Teresita Majewski

In studying the past, archaeologists have focused on the material remains of our ancestors. Prehistorians generally have only artifacts to study and rely on the diverse material record for their understanding of past societies and their behavior. Those involved in studying historically documented cultures not only have extensive material remains but also contemporary texts, images, and a range of investigative technologies to enable them to build a broader and more reflexive picture of how past societies, communities, and individuals operated and behaved. Increasingly, historical archaeology refers not to a particular period, place, or a method, but rather an approach that interrogates the tensions between artifacts and texts irrespective of context. In short, historical archaeology provides direct evidence for how humans have shaped the world we live in today. Historical archaeology is a branch of global archaeology that has grown in the last 40 years from its North American base into an increasingly global community of archaeologists each studying their area of the world in a historical context. Where historical archaeology started as part of the study of the post-Columbian societies of the United States and Canada, it has now expanded to interface with the post-medieval archaeologies of Europe and the diverse post-imperial experiences of Africa, Latin America, and Australasia. The 36 essays in the International Handbook of Historical Archaeology have been specially commissioned from the leading researchers in their fields, creating a wide-ranging digest of the increasingly global field of historical archaeology. The volume is divided into two sections, the first reviewing the key themes, issues, and approaches of historical archaeology today, and the second containing a series of case studies charting the development and current state of historical archaeological practice around the world. This key reference work captures the energy and diversity of this global discipline today.

A Cultural History of Objects in the Age of Enlightenment

A Cultural History of Objects in the Age of Enlightenment
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages : 257
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ISBN-10 : 9781350226661
ISBN-13 : 1350226661
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Synopsis A Cultural History of Objects in the Age of Enlightenment by : Audrey Horning

A Cultural History of Objects in the Age of Enlightenment covers the period 1600 to 1760, a time marked by the movement of people, ideas and goods. The objects explored in this volume –from scientific instrumentation and Baroque paintings to slave ships and shackles –encapsulate the contradictory impulses of the age. The entwined forces of capitalism and colonialism created new patterns of consumption, facilitated by innovations in maritime transport, new forms of exchange relations, and the exploitation of non-Western peoples and lands. The world of objects in the Enlightenment reveal a Western material culture profoundly shaped by global encounters. The 6 volume set of the Cultural History of Objects examines how objects have been created, used, interpreted and set loose in the world over the last 2500 years. Over this time, the West has developed particular attitudes to the material world, at the centre of which is the idea of the object. The themes covered in each volume are objecthood; technology; economic objects; everyday objects; art; architecture; bodily objects; object worlds. Audrey Horning is Professor at William & Mary, USA, and at Queen's University Belfast, UK. Volume 4 in the Cultural History of Objects set. General Editors: Dan Hicks and William Whyte

The Historical Archaeology of Shadow and Intimate Economies

The Historical Archaeology of Shadow and Intimate Economies
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Publisher : University Press of Florida
Total Pages : 315
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ISBN-10 : 9780813057101
ISBN-13 : 0813057108
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Synopsis The Historical Archaeology of Shadow and Intimate Economies by : James A. Nyman

Emphasizing the important social relationships that form among people who participate in small-scale economic transactions, contributors to this volume explore often-overlooked networks of intimate and shadow economies—terms used to describe trade that takes place outside formal market systems. Case studies from a variety of historical contexts around the world reveal the ways such transactions created community and identity, subverted class and power relations, and helped people adapt to new social realities. In Maine, woven baskets sold by Native American artisans to Euroamerican consumers supported Native strategies for cultural survival and agency. Alcohol exchanged by Scandinavian merchants for furs and skins enabled their indigenous trading partners to expand social webs that contested colonialism. Moonshine production in Appalachia was an integral part of economic exchanges in isolated mountain communities. Caribbean and American plantations contain evidence of interactions, exchanges, and attachments between enslaved communities and poor whites that defied established racial boundaries. From brothel workers in Boston to seal hunters in Antarctica, the examples in this volume show how historical archaeologists can use the concept of intimate economies to uncover deeply meaningful connections that exist beyond the traditional framework of global capitalism.

Archaeology and Cultural Mixture

Archaeology and Cultural Mixture
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Publisher : Archaeological Review from Cambridge
Total Pages : 374
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Synopsis Archaeology and Cultural Mixture by : Philipp W. Stockhammer