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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820954703321

Autore

Blum Rony

Titolo

Ghost brothers : adoption of a French tribe by bereaved native America : a transdisciplinary longitudinal mutilevel integrated analysis / / Rony Blum

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Montreal ; ; Ithaca [N.Y.], : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2005

ISBN

1-282-86313-4

9786612863134

0-7735-7246-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (461 p.)

Disciplina

971.01/6

Soggetti

Acculturation - Canada - History - 17th century

French-Canadians - Social conditions - 17th century

Indians of North America - First contact with Europeans

Indians of North America - Foreign influences

Spiritualism - Canada - History

Canada History To 1763 (New France)

Canada Social conditions To 1763

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [341]-441) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Intertwined Twintalk -- Smoke Signals -- Revenge of the Cradles -- Born Free -- Our Founding Clanmothers -- Je me souviens -- Hunting Otherworlds -- Outside In, Inside Out -- Beating Swords into Canoe Paddles -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Devastating losses caused by diseases such as smallpox led to an epidemic of bereavement among the Natives. This loss resonated with the French, who had dealt with smaller epidemics in France and were also mourning their absent communities through a nostalgia for home. Blum traces how ghosts provided transgenerational and transcultural links that guided understanding rather than encouraging violence. Ghost Brothers insightfully examines the process of this colonial interdependent alliance between Native and European worlds.