Tu sais, mon vieux Jean-Pierre
Tu sais, mon vieux Jean-Pierre : Essays on the Archaeology and History
of New France and Canadian Culture in Honour of Jean-Pierre Chrestien
by John Willis
English, French | 2017 | ISBN: 0776624571 | 409 Pages | PDF | 20 MB
of New France and Canadian Culture in Honour of Jean-Pierre Chrestien
by John Willis
English, French | 2017 | ISBN: 0776624571 | 409 Pages | PDF | 20 MB
Tu sais, mon vieux Jean-Pierre is inspired by the work of archaeologist Jean-Pierre Chrestien (1949–2008), who worked hand-in-glove with a generation of researchers in helping to unearth unexpected and always interesting aspects of New France.
Contributions focus first upon the door to New France in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, Newfoundland and Acadia. A second set of essays move further up the St. Lawrence and into the heartland of the continent. The final section examines aspects of Canadian culture: popular art, religion and communication. The essays share a curiosity for material culture, a careful regard for detail and nuance that forms the grain of New France studies, and sensitivity to the overall context that is part and parcel of how history proceeds on the local or regional scale.
We can therefore go beyond the facile and obsolete generalizations of an allegedly absent bourgeoisie, a commercial ethic supposedly deficient among the inhabitants and the so-called military character of the colony. As a result, we can try to understand the real people and their possessions in context.