In the North American fur trade, food and clothing were among the most frequently exchanged material, serving both as necessities of life and expressions of identity. Not only were materials exchanged but new fashions and tastes developed among fur traders and First Nations across North America from the 1600s to the early 1800s. This article examines these two realms of material culture through the link of sensory history, suggesting that they were central to the experiences of the fur trade and indicate patterns of cultural exchange and reciprocity. Dress and diet were key signposts of identity and markers of difference, yet patterns of material exchanges during the expansion of the North American fur trade produced hybrid styles in both c...
Citation: Peers, L. (2009) Material culture, identity, and colonial society in the Canadian fur trad...
Animal furs have been used in various manners through human history. Early humans cut crude shawls f...
In the years immediately following the whaling enterprise in Hudson's Bay, the organized Fur Trade e...
This thesis examines the impact of European trade goods on some aspects of North American Indian clo...
INTRODUCTION This paper examines the economic and social impact of the fur trade on Indian cultures,...
Commerce by a Frozen Sea is a cross-cultural study of a century of contact between North American na...
The trading of furs in the north eastern regions of the American continent during the 17th century b...
Thesis (Ph.D.), American Studies, Washington State UniversityThe French and Indian War opened up the...
Glass trade beads were common items of the historical North American fur trade. This paper foc...
This dissertation offers a comparative and entangled history of the trade and consumption of clothin...
ii The fur trade of the Upper Great Lakes region during the 17th century is examined with the aid of...
The fur trade played an important role in determining the nature of the European-Native American rel...
From the beginning of colonisation, Southeastern Native Americans used and adapted European material...
The political, economic, and social history of present day Northwest Territories, Alberta, Saskatche...
University of Minnesota Ph.D. dissertation. August 2016. Major: Anthropology. Advisor: Katherine Ha...
Citation: Peers, L. (2009) Material culture, identity, and colonial society in the Canadian fur trad...
Animal furs have been used in various manners through human history. Early humans cut crude shawls f...
In the years immediately following the whaling enterprise in Hudson's Bay, the organized Fur Trade e...
This thesis examines the impact of European trade goods on some aspects of North American Indian clo...
INTRODUCTION This paper examines the economic and social impact of the fur trade on Indian cultures,...
Commerce by a Frozen Sea is a cross-cultural study of a century of contact between North American na...
The trading of furs in the north eastern regions of the American continent during the 17th century b...
Thesis (Ph.D.), American Studies, Washington State UniversityThe French and Indian War opened up the...
Glass trade beads were common items of the historical North American fur trade. This paper foc...
This dissertation offers a comparative and entangled history of the trade and consumption of clothin...
ii The fur trade of the Upper Great Lakes region during the 17th century is examined with the aid of...
The fur trade played an important role in determining the nature of the European-Native American rel...
From the beginning of colonisation, Southeastern Native Americans used and adapted European material...
The political, economic, and social history of present day Northwest Territories, Alberta, Saskatche...
University of Minnesota Ph.D. dissertation. August 2016. Major: Anthropology. Advisor: Katherine Ha...
Citation: Peers, L. (2009) Material culture, identity, and colonial society in the Canadian fur trad...
Animal furs have been used in various manners through human history. Early humans cut crude shawls f...
In the years immediately following the whaling enterprise in Hudson's Bay, the organized Fur Trade e...