This book steps outside the simple stories of Indian-white relations - stories of conquest and assimilation and stories of cultural persistence. It is, instead, about a search for accommodation and common meaning. It tells how Europeans and Indians met, regarding each other as alien, as virtually nonhuman, and how between 1650 and 1815 they constructed a common, mutually conprehensible world in the region around the Great Lakes that the French called the pays d'en haut. Here the older worlds of the Algonquians and of various Europeans overlapped, and their mixture created new systems of meaning and of exchange. Finally, the book tells of the breakdown of accommodation and common meanings and the re-creation of the Indians as alien and exotic.
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eloquent and formidable.
评分eloquent and formidable.
评分读了绪论和第二章middle ground。作者在上世纪80年代的政治、文化氛围中写作，一反传统的欧洲中心视角，突出了欧洲外来者和土著印第安人之间的相互博弈与（试图）理解对方，甚至结尾同盟，由此创造出一个middle ground中间地带：既是实际地理范围上的大湖地区pays d'en haut，也是比喻意义上的两种文化之间冲突、交融的地带。中间地带最典型的体现在sex和violence两个方面。一方面当时法国男多女少，印第安人则因为战争死伤女多男少，于是出现了不少跨族的性关系（简单的一段旅程中的性陪伴，也有正式的、涉及多方利益权衡的婚姻）。另一方面是尽管法国为了贸易而与印第安人结为同盟，但难免出现死伤情况，而且双方文化对死亡的处理又极不相同，其中文化、政治、经济权衡颇为有趣。文笔极好。
评分eloquent and formidable.
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