Women, Kin, and Catholicism: New Perspectives on the Fur Trade

Sleeper-Smith, Susan

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“…Given what most historians had written about the mixed race families in places like Kaskaskia, I expected these individuals to be members of wealthy fur trade families (Peterson 1981;Kirk 1983;Sleeper-Smith 2000). To my surprise, I found that these people at the center of this network were not fur traders, by and large.…”

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Morrissey

2015

Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdiscipli

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Social network analysis is a burgeoning field of sociology, but it has only recently been adopted by social historians. This article provides an overview of the promise of social network analysis for social history, as well as a critical discussion of what the method does and does not provide. It focuses especially on the problem of "whole network" analysis and sketches questions that social network analysis can help answer in the past. The author then offers a reflection on his own experience using the method and shows what it provided in the study of a French-Indian community in the colonial Mississippi Valley.

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“…Rather, marriage and kinship networks functioned to give Frenchmen the identity needed to operate in what remained very much an Indian habitus. If anything, as many historians have demonstrated, these kinship connections allowed Frenchmen to "go native" (Barr 2007;DuVal 2006;Sleeper-Smith 2000, 2001DeMaillie 1998;Bohaker 2006;Brooks 2002).…”

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2015

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“…Indigenous women may have been seen as suitable partners, acting as "cultural brokers" (McEwan, 1991, p. 33;Sleeper-Smith, 2000) for European men who arrived on New Zealand's shores as sealers, whalers, and traders. However, indigenous women were not sanctioned as wives for missionaries.…”

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Silent Voices, Hidden Lives: Archaeology, Class and Gender in the CMS Missions, Bay of Islands, New Zealand, 1814–1845

Middleton

2007

Int J Histor Archaeol

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This paper explores the themes and tensions of class and propriety at one of New Zealand's early European settlements, a Church Missionary Society mission in the Bay of Islands. Archaeological investigations at the site of the Te Puna mission house revealed a cellar containing, among other articles, items connected with domesticity and feminine concerns, demonstrating the presence of womenand their daily activities. The interweaving of the archaeological and historical record sheds light upon the replication of class and culture through themes such as the "cult of domesticity" at this remote location, a decade prior to British colonization.

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“…In these instances, Maori women acted as, in Susan Sleeper-Smith's words, 'mediators between cultural groups'. 11 Much later, at a time when the Maori population had been far outstripped by Pakeha, the anthropologist John Harre undertook an in-depth study of 'interracial' marriages in 1960s Auckland, New Zealand's largest city, stating: 'the rate of marriage is likely to increase and this will be one factor in a context of improving race relations in New Zealand'. 12 Within a decade racial politics in New Zealand became very fraught as Maori increasingly drew attention, in more confrontational ways than before, to their history of dispossession.…”

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Taking Private Life Seriously: Marriage and Nationhood

Brookes

2003

History Compass

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In her path-breaking book, Public Vows: A History of Marriage and the Nation , Nancy Cott notes how although marriage is commonly viewed as part of private life, assumptions about marriage have been an integral part of public policy and had implications for citizenship. 1 A number of American colonies passed laws that aimed to prevent intermarriage between white and Negro or mulatto persons, in order to retain the dominance of the white race. Marriage and the nation are, therefore, intimately entwined, and histories which explore the intimate ties created by marriage are likely to throw new light on the evolution of nationhood.Marriage, as a public institution, was the place where the state most directly shaped gendered authority. Monogamy and heterosexuality have been traditionally upheld in British colonies, whereas bigamy and homosexuality were proscribed. Unlike other contracts, Cott points out that the terms of marriage partnerships were not written by the partners but were inscribed in law. 2 Stability was often seen to reside in the homes of the nation and, at its heart, was the married couple. Studies of marriage, therefore, have the potential to link private life and the aspirations of individuals with the wider history of the state.In the imperial context, feminist scholars such as

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Women, Kin, and Catholicism: New Perspectives on the Fur Trade

Cited by 29 publications

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