ISBN:
0807876097
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9780807876091
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (xix, 378 pages)
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illustrations
Edition:
Online-Ausg. [S.l.] HathiTrust Digital Library Online-Ausg. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Namias, June White captives
DDC:
305.800973
Keywords:
McCrea, Jane 1753-1777
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Jemison, Mary 1743-1833
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McCrea, Jane 1753-1777
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Jemison, Mary 1743-1833
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Wakefield, Sarah F. Jemison, Mary 1743-1833
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McCrea, Jane 1753-1777
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Wakefield, Sarah F.
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Wakefield, Sarah F.
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Jemison, Mary
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McCrea, Jane
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Jemison, Mary 1743-1833
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Jemison, Mary 1743-1833
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McCrea, Jane 1753-1777
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McCrea, Jane 1753-1777
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Wakefield, Sarah F. Jemison, Mary 1743-1833
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McCrea, Jane 1753-1777
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Wakefield, Sarah F.
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Wakefield, Sarah F.
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Jemison, Mary
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McCrea, Jane
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Indian captivities United States
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Ethnicity History
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United States
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Indians of North America Sexual behavior
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Prisonniers des Indiens d'Amérique États-Unis
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Ethnicité Histoire
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États-Unis
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Indiens d'Amérique Sexualité
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États-Unis
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Indianer
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Weiße
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USA
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United States
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Indian captivities
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Ethnicity History
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Indians of North America Sexual behavior
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Ethnicity History
;
United States
;
Ethnicité Histoire
;
États-Unis
;
Indian captivities United States
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Indiens d'Amérique Sexualité
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États-Unis
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Indianer
;
Weiße
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USA
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United States
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Prisonniers des Indiens d'Amérique États-Unis
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Indians of North America Sexual behavior
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY ; Social Scientists & Psychologists
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies
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Ethnicity
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Indian captivities
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Blanken
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Indianen
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Gevangenen
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Gefangener
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Weibliche Gefangene
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Indiens ; Amérique du Nord ; Sexualité
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Ethnicité ; États-Unis ; Histoire
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Indiens ; États-Unis ; Captifs
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Prisonniers des Indiens
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History
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Weiße
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USA
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United States
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Indianer
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Electronic books
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Electronic books History
Abstract:
White Captives offers a new analysis of Indian-white coexistence on the American frontier. June Namias shows that visual, literary, and historical accounts of the capture of Euro-Americans by Indians during the colonial Indian Wars, the American Revolution, and the Civil War are commentaries on the uncertain boundaries of gender, race, and culture. She demonstrates that these captivity materials, which most often feature as victims white women and children (the most vulnerable members of their communities), vividly portray anxieties about gender and ethnicity on the frontier and in American society. Namias begins by comparing the experiences and representations of male and female captives over time and on successive frontiers, from colonial New England to mid-nineteenth-century Minnesota, and explores how the stories transformed victims of historical circumstance into heroes and heroines. She then uses the narratives of three captives - Jane McCrea, Mary Jemison, and Sarah Wakefield - as case studies, arguing that they describe the fears of sexual contact between native cultures and white settlers and illustrate issues of female survival, independence, and competence. Moreover, she finds that these and other stories also reflect the major role of women and children in the migration process. According to Namias, both the historical reality and the reworked tales of capture offered white Americans new ways of looking at gender and ethnic relations by contrasting their own roles and value with those presumed to be Indian. Thus, while elements of horror, propaganda, mythmaking, and ethnographic documentary characterized the accounts, captivity materials served a larger purpose by providing a framework for notions of gender and cultural conflict on the frontier
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-366) and index. - Description based on print version record
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Description based on print version record
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002
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Online-Ausg. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
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