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Record Nr.

UNINA9910141047203321

Titolo

Recollecting : lives of Aboriginal women of the Canadian northwest and borderlands / / edited by Sarah Carter and Patricia A. McCormack

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edmonton, Alberta : , : AU Press, , 2011

©2011

ISBN

1-282-97786-5

9786612977862

1-897425-83-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (422 pages) : illustrations, maps

Collana

The West Unbound: Social and Cultural Studies, , 1915-8181

Disciplina

971.004/97

Soggetti

Indian women - Canada - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

Recollecting is a rich collection of essays that illuminates the lives of late-eighteenth-century to mid-twentieth century Aboriginal women, who have been overlooked in sweeping narratives of the history of the West. Some essays focus on individuals-a trader, a performer, a non-human woman. Other essays examine cohorts of women-wives, midwives, seamstresses, nuns. Authors look beyond the documentary record and standard representations of women, drawing on records generated by the women themselves, including their beadwork, other material culture, and oral histories.