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- Title
Native American Men - and Women - at Home in Plural Marriages in Seventeenth-Century New France.
- Authors
Pearsall, Sarah M. S.
- Abstract
This article focuses on plural marriages, using them as a means to illuminate the intersections of domesticity and masculinity among Algonquin, Montagnais and Miami-Illinois peoples in early colonial New France. Among many Native American cultures, including those under discussion here, polygyny was part of a larger system, one that privileged larger household and kinship networks over individuals. Focusing on plural unions reveals a great deal about the critical importance of the labours of wives to male status. It provides insights into the significance of households in forging relations both between Native American peoples and between French and Native people. It also elucidates differences between and among Algonquian-speaking people in this area, thus illuminating early colonial encounters.
- Subjects
CANADA; QUEBEC (Province); NEW France; POLYGAMY &; Christianity; FIRST Nations of Canada; NATIVE Americans -- Missions; NATIVE American religion; JESUIT history; SEVENTEENTH century; HISTORY
- Publication
Gender & History, 2015, Vol 27, Issue 3, p591
- ISSN
0953-5233
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/1468-0424.12152