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- Title
The Use of Style in Resistance, Politics and the Negotiation of Identity: St. Lawrence Iroquoians in a Huron-Wendat Community.
- Authors
Ramsden, Peter
- Abstract
The late sixteenth century Huron- Wendat Benson site in the Balsam Lake area of south-central Ontario has produced substantial quantities of a characteristic 'barred' ceramic motif found virtually nowhere else. In addition, it has produced ceramics that are "hybrids" of Huron-Wendat and St. Lawrence Iroquoian styles. An analysis of these ceramics leads to the interpretation that they are part of a complex process of power brokering by women in the community. In part this entails symbolic resistance on the part of adopted St. Lawrence Iroquoian women. At the same time, it reveals a strategy used by both St. Lawrence Iroquoian and Huron- Wendat women of sending signals of ambiguous political allegiance, either to achieve a degree of political flexibility, or to attempt to mediate between the community's two competing political factions.
- Subjects
ONTARIO; CERAMICS design; FIRST Nations of Canada; FIRST Nations antiquities; IROQUOIS women; WYANDOT women; WYANDOT (North American people); IROQUOIS (North American people); SOCIAL conflict; NATIVE American history
- Publication
Canadian Journal of Archaeology, 2016, Vol 40, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
0705-2006
- Publication type
Article