The Lives in Objects
Jessica Yirush Stern
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The University of North Carolina Press
Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Geschichte
Beschreibung
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The Lives in Objects, Jessica Yirush Stern presents a thoroughly researched and engaging study of the deerskin trade in the colonial Southeast, equally attentive to British American and Southeastern Indian cultures of production, distribution, and consumption. Stern upends the long-standing assertion that Native Americans were solely gift givers and the British were modern commercial capitalists. This traditional interpretation casts Native Americans as victims drawn into and made dependent on a transatlantic marketplace. Stern complicates that picture by showing how both the Southeastern Indian and British American actors mixed gift giving and commodity exchange in the deerskin trade, such that Southeastern Indians retained much greater agency as producers and consumers than the standard narrative allows. By tracking the debates about Indian trade regulation, Stern also reveals that the British were often not willing to embrace modern free market values. While she sheds new light on broader issues in native and colonial history, Stern also demonstrates that concepts of labor, commerce, and material culture were inextricably intertwined to present a fresh perspective on trade in the colonial Southeast.
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Cherokee, James Oglethorpe, Yamacraw, Colonial American Gift Exchange, Free Trade in Early America, Proprietors of South Carolina, Textile Trade in the Atlantic World, Colonial Georgia, Native American Gift Exchange, Chickasaw, Native American Consumption of European Goods, labor in Early America, Georgia Malcontents, Deerskin Trade, Indian Traders, Tomochichi, Corn Mother, European Consumption of Native American Goods, Choctaw, Mercantilism, Economic Theory in the British Atlantic, Dependency Theory, James Glenn, Southeastern Indian Agriculture, Colonial South Carolina, Yamasee, Southeastern Indian Slave Trade, Southeastern Indians, John Locke in America, Yuchi, Colonial Southeast, Creek Indians, South Carolina Commissioners for the Indian Trade, slavery in Colonial Georgia