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Traders' Tales
Elizabeth Vibert
其他書名
Narratives of Cultural Encounters in the Columbia Plateau, 1807-1846
出版University of Oklahoma Press, 1997
主題History / Europe / Great Britain / GeneralHistory / Indigenous Peoples in the AmericasHistory / North AmericaHistory / United States / State & Local / GeneralHistory / United States / 19th CenturyHistory / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)Social Science / Ethnic Studies / American / Native American StudiesSocial Science / Sociology / General
ISBN08061293289780806129327
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=ynepsKHqStMC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋As the earliest "ethnographic" accounts of the Native peoples of northern North America, fur-trade records have long been mined for data by legal researchers, historians, and anthropologists. Traders' Tales provides the first sustained critical analysis of these fascinating historical documents. Drawing on the latest techniques in ethnohistory and cultural and literary theory, Elizabeth Vibert unpacks the assumptions behind traders' views - assumptions shaped by culture, gender, social class, and race. At the same time the author explores the responses of the Native Americans of the Plateau region to the pressures and changes wrought by this early colonial incursion into latter-day Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, and British Columbia. The cultural perceptions of these white men in Indian country were open to inventive refashioning, and Native peoples played a central role in the encounter and in the way it was portrayed. Traders' Tales is both an analysis of fur-trader writings as a form of colonial discourse and a meticulous historical narrative providing significant new insights into early Native-white relations in a little-studied region of the West. A broadly comparative perspective and finely tuned critical skills enable Vibert to shed new light on the nature of colonial cultural relations, and to illuminate the ways in which racism and ethnocentrism are constructed historically.