Shirts powdered red : Haudenosaunee gender, trade, and exchange across three centuries / Maeve Kane.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kane, Maeve, 1986- author.

Series:

Cornell scholarship online.

Cornell scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Iroquois women--Social conditions--17th century.

Iroquois women.

Iroquois women--Social conditions--18th century.

Iroquois women--Social conditions--19th century.

Iroquois Indians--Clothing--History.

Iroquois Indians.

Clothing and dress--Symbolic aspects--New York (State)--History.

Clothing and dress.

Clothing and dress--Symbolic aspects--Québec (Province)--History.

Clothing and dress--Political aspects--New York (State)--History.

Clothing and dress--Political aspects--Québec (Province)--History.

Iroquois Indians--Commerce--History.

Iroquois Indians--Ethnic identity--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (366 pages)

Other Title:

Haudenosaunee gender, trade, and exchange across three centuries

Place of Publication:

Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2023.

Summary:

Beginning with a purchased shirt and ending with a handmade dress, Shirts Powdered Red shows how Haudenosaunee women and their work shaped their nations from the 16th century through the 19th century. By looking at clothing that was bought, created, and remade, Maeve Kane brings to life how Haudenosaunee women used access to global trade to maintain a distinct and enduring Haudenosaunee identity in the face of colonial pressures to assimilate and disappear. Drawing on rich oral, archival, material, visual, and quantitative evidence, Shirts Powdered Red tells the story of how Haudenosaunee people worked to maintain their nations' cultural and political sovereignty through selective engagement with trade and the rhetoric of civility.

Contents:

Introduction : Clothing the People Without History

Domestic Work and Exchange in Early Contact

Purchased Cloth and the Transformation of Labor in the Seventeenth Century

Cultural Entanglement and European Anxiety in the Early Eighteenth Century

Women's Cross-Cultural Exchange in the Mid-Eighteenth Century

Gender, Race, and Civility in Eighteenth Century Education

Erasure and Violence Against Women in the American Revolution

Caroline Parker and Making a Modern Traditionality

Epilogue.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Also issued in print: 2023.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781501767890

OCLC:

1335763865