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Religion, Gender, and Kinship in Colonial New France

Religion, Gender, and Kinship in Colonial New France

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Canadian HistoryNative American HistoryWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 0815634730
ISBN13: 9780815634737
Publisher: Syracuse Univ Pr
Published: Oct 27 2016
Pages: 248
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.58 Width: 6.05 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

The individual and cultural upheavals of early colonial New France were experienced differently by French explorers and settlers, and by Native traditionalists and Catholic converts. However, European invaders and indigenous people alike learned to negotiate the complexities of cross-cultural encounters by reimagining the meaning of kinship. Part micro-history, part biography, Religion, Gender, and Kinship in Colonial New France explores the lives of Etienne Brulé, Joseph Chihoatenhwa, Thérèse Oionhaton, and Marie Rollet Hébert as they created new religious orientations in order to survive the challenges of early seventeenth-century New France. Poirier examines how each successfully adapted their religious and cultural identities to their surroundings,

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