Wild Frenchmen and Frenchified Indians: Material Culture and Race in Colonial Louisiana

by Sophie White

Book Overview

Based on a sweeping range of archival, visual, and material evidence, Wild Frenchmen and Frenchified Indians examines perceptions of Indians in French colonial Louisiana and demonstrates that material culture--especially dress--was central to the elaboration of discourses about race.

At the heart of France's seventeenth-century plans for colonizing New France was a formal policy--Frenchification. Intended to turn Indians into Catholic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081222308X
• ISBN13: 9780812223088
• Release Date: March 2014
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.8"