Ghost Brothers
Adoption of a French Tribe by Bereaved Native America: A Transdisciplinary Longitudinal Multilevel Integrated Analysis
- Publisher
- McGill-Queen's University Press
- Initial publish date
- May 2005
- Category
- General, Native American
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780773572461
- Publish Date
- May 2005
- List Price
- $110.00
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Description
Devastating losses caused by diseases such as smallpox led to an epidemic of bereavement among the Natives. This loss resonated with the French, who had dealt with smaller epidemics in France and were also mourning their absent communities through a nostalgia for home. Blum traces how ghosts provided transgenerational and transcultural links that guided understanding rather than encouraging violence. Ghost Brothers insightfully examines the process of this colonial interdependent alliance between Native and European worlds.
About the author
Rony Blum is Richard B. Tomlinson Postdoctoral Fellow in Social Studies of Medicine, McGill University.