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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Blum, Rony.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Acculturation--Canada--History--17th century.

Acculturation.

French-Canadians--Social conditions--17th century.

French-Canadians.

Indians of North America--First contact with other peoples.

Indians of North America.

Indians of North America--Foreign influences.

Spiritualism--Canada--History.

Spiritualism.

Canada--History--To 1763 (New France).

Canada.

Canada--Social conditions--To 1763.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (461 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

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

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Includes index.

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

ISBN:

1-282-86313-4

9786612863134

0-7735-7246-5

OCLC:

728030276