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Intermarriage and agency: a Chinookan case study
Ethnohistory • 42 (1) • Published In 1995 • Pages: 1-30
By: Peterson del Mar, David.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Recent studies argue that contact and colonization undermined Native American women's power and that the women, more so than their male counterparts, reacted conservatively to Euro-Americans. The life of Celiast Smith, a Chinookan woman born at the Columbia River's mouth early in the nineteenth century, suggests that Native women could use the powerful newcomers to their own ends, particularly through intermarriage. These acts of agency cannot be understood simply or even primarily as assimilationism, for Smith's nuanced response to the growing Euro-American presence owed much to the Chinookan culture that she appeared to be discarding (p. 1).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Life history materials
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Status, role, and prestige
- Gender status
- Ethnic stratification
- Regulation of marriage
- Missions
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Chinookans of the Lower Columbia River
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2004
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Northwest Coast and California
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- 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 ; 2002
- 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
- 1702-1900
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Lower Chinook region, southern Washington and northern Oregon, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- David Peterson-del Mar
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 57043343
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Chinook Indians