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Listening to the Fur Trade
Author | : Daniel Robert Laxer |
Publsiher | : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2022-04-05 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780228009818 |
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As fur traders were driven across northern North America by economic motivations, the landscape over which they plied their trade was punctuated by sound: shouting, singing, dancing, gunpowder, rattles, jingles, drums, fiddles, and – very occasionally – bagpipes. Fur trade interactions were, in a word, noisy. Daniel Laxer unearths traces of music, performance, and other intangible cultural phenomena long since silenced, allowing us to hear the fur trade for the first time. Listening to the Fur Trade uses the written record, oral history, and material culture to reveal histories of sound and music in an era before sound recording. The trading post was a noisy nexus, populated by a polyglot crowd of highly mobile people from different national, linguistic, religious, cultural, and class backgrounds. They found ways to interact every time they met, and facilitating material interests and survival went beyond the simple exchange of goods. Trust and good relations often entailed gift-giving: reciprocity was performed with dances, songs, and firearm salutes. Indigenous protocols of ceremony and treaty-making were widely adopted by fur traders, who supplied materials and technologies that sometimes changed how these ceremonies sounded. Within trading companies, masters and servants were on opposite ends of the social ladder but shared songs in the canoes and lively dances during the long winters at the trading posts. While the fur trade was propelled by economic and political interests, Listening to the Fur Trade uncovers the songs and ceremonies of First Nations people, the paddling songs of the voyageurs, and the fiddle music and step-dancing at the trading posts that provided its pulse.
Listening to the Fur Trade
Author | : Daniel Robert Laxer |
Publsiher | : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2022-04-05 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780228009825 |
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As fur traders were driven across northern North America by economic motivations, the landscape over which they plied their trade was punctuated by sound: shouting, singing, dancing, gunpowder, rattles, jingles, drums, fiddles, and – very occasionally – bagpipes. Fur trade interactions were, in a word, noisy. Daniel Laxer unearths traces of music, performance, and other intangible cultural phenomena long since silenced, allowing us to hear the fur trade for the first time. Listening to the Fur Trade uses the written record, oral history, and material culture to reveal histories of sound and music in an era before sound recording. The trading post was a noisy nexus, populated by a polyglot crowd of highly mobile people from different national, linguistic, religious, cultural, and class backgrounds. They found ways to interact every time they met, and facilitating material interests and survival went beyond the simple exchange of goods. Trust and good relations often entailed gift-giving: reciprocity was performed with dances, songs, and firearm salutes. Indigenous protocols of ceremony and treaty-making were widely adopted by fur traders, who supplied materials and technologies that sometimes changed how these ceremonies sounded. Within trading companies, masters and servants were on opposite ends of the social ladder but shared songs in the canoes and lively dances during the long winters at the trading posts. While the fur trade was propelled by economic and political interests, Listening to the Fur Trade uncovers the songs and ceremonies of First Nations people, the paddling songs of the voyageurs, and the fiddle music and step-dancing at the trading posts that provided its pulse.
The Fur Trade in Canada
Author | : Michael Payne |
Publsiher | : James Lorimer & Company |
Total Pages | : 100 |
Release | : 2004-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1550288431 |
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In this book, extensively illustrated with visuals from some of Canada's most prominent museums and archives, historian Michael Payne explores the personalities and events that shaped this powerful business.
The Fur Trade
Author | : Paul Chrisler Phillips |
Publsiher | : Norman : University of Oklahoma Press |
Total Pages | : 740 |
Release | : 1961 |
Genre | : America |
ISBN | : UOM:39015008919295 |
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From the Indians of the American West to overseas influences, this book takes an extensive look at the fur trade. It details how it affected the history of North America and impacted the world economies.
The Fur Trade in Canada
Author | : Keith Wilson |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 48 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Fur trade |
ISBN | : 0717218244 |
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For use in schools.
Making the Voyageur World
Author | : Carolyn Podruchny |
Publsiher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 442 |
Release | : 2006-12-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780803287907 |
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Through a detailed analysis of their unique occupational culture, Making the Voyageur World reexamines the French Canadian workers who dominated the fur trade industry and became iconic images of North American lore.
The Fur trade of Canada
Author | : H. A. Innis |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1956 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : OCLC:1344409680 |
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People of the Fur Trade
Author | : Irene Ternier Gordon |
Publsiher | : Heritage House Publishing Co |
Total Pages | : 146 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781926936925 |
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The years from the fall of New France in 1763 to the amalgamation of the Hudson's Bay Company and North West Company in 1821 were marked by fierce competition in the fur trade. Traders from the warring companies pushed west, undertaking incredible voyages in their search for new sources of furs. Irene Gordon explores the eventful lives of those who worked in the trade, including Alexander Henry the Elder, a trader and merchant who left a vivid written account of his experiences; Net-no-kwa, a woman of the Ottawa tribe who was so highly regarded by the traders at Michilimackinac that they saluted her with gunfire every time she arrived there; and the bold and flamboyant Scotsman Colin Robertson, who used "glittering pomposity" to impress those he dealt with. From chief factors to servants, independent traders, Native trappers and Metis, the people of the fur trade left an indelible imprint on North American history.