Book
Acadian to Cajun: transformation of a people, 1803-1877
University Press of Mississippi • Jackson, Miss. • Published In 1992 • Pages:
By: Brasseaux, Carl A..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Starting where his previous work on Acadian history ended (see document number 5: Brasseaux, in this file), Brasseaux continues with his study of history from the period of the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, when the transplanted Acadian culture began to take on a decidedly Louisiana character, to 1877, the end of Reconstruction in Louisiana, at which time '…ascriptive distinctions between Acadians and neighboring groups had become blurred, giving rise to the creation of a new people - the Cajuns' (p.xi). Although much of the focus of this book is on the Acadian involvement in the American Civil War, there are also data on Acadian folk-life in the nineteenth century, the emergence of class structure and politics in the antebellum period, cultural change and transformation as the population adapted to life in Lousiana, and politics and violence in the post Civil War era, with particular emphasis on vigilantism, and the role of the Ku Klux Klan, Knights of the White Camelia, and the White League in minority control.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Agriculture
- Food preparation
- Diet
- Mutual aid
- Social stratification
- Brawls, riots, and banditry
- Police
- Informal in-group justice
- Legal and judicial personnel
- Armed forces
- War
- Ecclesiastical organization
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Cajuns
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1995
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Historian
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle, 1993
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- variable
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Louisiana, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Carl A. Brasseaux
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-241) and index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 92017759
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Cajuns