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Author:

Podruchny, Carolyn.

Title:

Making the voyageur world : travelers and traders in the North American fur trade / Carolyn Podruchny.

Publisher:

University of Nebraska Press,

Copyright Date:

2006

Description:

xx, 414 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Subject:

French-Canadians--North America--History.
Fur trade--North America--History.
Fur trade--New France--History.
Fur traders--North America--History.
Fur traders--New France--History.
Métis--North America--History.
Indians of North America--History.
North America--Description and travel.
Saint Lawrence River Valley--Description and travel.
Frontier and pioneer life--North America.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [371]-397) and index.

Contents:

10. Conclusion : carrying the world. 2. Leaving home : family and livelihood in French Canada and beyond -- 3. Rites of passage and ritual moments : voyageur cosmology -- 4. It is the paddle that brings us : voyageurs working in canoes -- 5. The theater of hegemony : masters, clerks, and servants -- 6. Rendezvous : parties, tricks, and friendships -- 7. En dérouine : life at interior fur trade posts -- 8. Tender ties, fluid monogamy, and trading sex : voyageurs and aboriginal women -- 9. Disengagement : going home and going free -- 10. Conclusion : carrying the world.

Series:

France overseas

ISBN:

9780802094285
0802094287
9780803287907
0803287909 (pbk. : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)69020884

LCCN:

2006013379

Locations:

PNAX964 -- Northeast Iowa Community College Library - Calmar (Calmar)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

F3OX522 -- State Historical Society of Iowa Library (Iowa City)

OUAX845 -- Dordt University (Sioux Center)