The Subarctic Fur Trade: Native Social and Economic Adaptions - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0774801867 ISBN 13: 9780774801867

Publisher: University of British Columbia Press, 1984

Synopsis

The papers in this book focus on several themes: the identification of Indian motives; the degree to which Indians were discriminating consumers and creative participants; and the extent of the native dependency on the trade. It spans the period from the seventeenth century up to and including the twentieth century. In one of the key essays, Arthur J. Ray questions the theory that modern native welfare societies are of recent origin, and traces their roots to the early fur trade. Papers by Charles A. Bishop, Toby Morantz and Carol Judd focus on the North Algonquians in the eastern subarctic and earlier centuries of the trade, while two final essays by Shepard Krech, and Robert Jarvenpa and Hetty Jo Brumbach shift the focus to the North Athapascans in the western subarctic.

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Review

An innovative approach toward better understanding the fur trade in the subarctic by combining the interdisciplinary perspectives of anthropologists, historians, and geographers... an advancement in fur trade scholarship. -- Colin Yerbury * Arctic * The Subarctic Fur Trade offers a sampling of the most innovative and influential scholarship being produced in the field today ... The volume breaks new ground in its emphasis on the little-studied fur trade of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and as a result revises and expands the current chronological framework used to measure the loss of autonomy of subarctic tribal societies resulting from interaction with whites ... Few volumes merit the accolade "state-of-the-art." This is one of them. -- Jacqueline Peterson * Western Historical Quarterly * In contributing so substantially to the understanding of the complexities of the interaction of the fur trade with northern hunting and gathering societies, [this book] also contributes to the understanding of interaction between human societies in general. -- Olive Patricia Dickason * American Historical Review *

About the Author

Shepard Krech III (editor) is a professor of anthropology at Brown University and director of the Haffenreffer Museum.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
• Publication date: 1984
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0774801867
• ISBN 13: 9780774801867
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 416
• Editor: Krech Shepard