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- Title
La traite des pelletries aux XVII<sup>e</sup> et XVIII<sup>e</sup> siècles.
- Authors
DELÂGE, DENYS
- Abstract
The fur trade brought together partners from two civilizations. In this context of mutual dependence, adaptations and inventions were numerous: logic of exchange and gift and counter gift, a market economy logic, a transformation of debt mechanisms, a gradual and reciprocal learning of the Other's rules, biological and cultural mixing, cultural reinterpretations, the emergence of a new people, the Métis. Nonetheless, slowly and gradually, a market economy grew and colonial political power took hold. "The Beaver does all", even builds colonial empires. Gradually, the relationship with nature changed, over hunting chased away the animals and in symbolic fashion the beaver came close to disappearing from the continent around 1930.
- Subjects
NORTH America; FUR trade; NATIVE American commerce; NATIVE American-White relations; FIRST Nations of Canada; TRADING posts; WAMPUM; COPPER industry; METIS; HISTORY
- Publication
Cahiers des Dix, 2016, Vol 70, p343
- ISSN
0575-089X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.7202/1038752ar