Métissage in New France and Canada 1508 to 1886
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- ISBN 9783631589755
- Weight: 420g
- Dimensions: 148 x 210mm
- Publication Date: 07 Aug 2009
- Publisher: Peter Lang AG
- Publication City/Country: CH
- Product Form: Paperback
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This book deals with métissage in New France and Canada in the period 1508 to 1886. Métissage is understood as a syncretistic process of cultural, social and political encounter and mixture of ethnic groups that resulted from mixed marriages and relationships. Those led to the rise of the Métis people in North America, which were distinguished as French-speaking Métis and English-speaking Halfbreeds. The process of mixture began in 1508, when first Indians were shipped to France with the intention to use them as multipliers of French culture on their return to the colony. In 1886, the Act of Savages legally distinguished between «Indians» and «Metis», thus marking the beginning of a mixed-blood identity in Canada that was differentiated from neighbouring Whites, Indians and Inuit. The theoretical approach of the history of concepts is employed in the longue durée to show the variance throughout four centuries.
The Author: Devrim Karahasan was born in Wanne-Eickel (Germany) in 1971. She studied History, Sociology and Political Science in Bochum, Bielefeld and Manchester and graduated with a Ph.D. at the European University Institute in Florence. She has worked as a journalist on human rights issues for papers and radio stations in Germany and Turkey and as a translator for British and American colleagues on topics of social, cultural and political history.
