Engendering New Netherland: Implications for Interpreting Early Colonial Societies |
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Authors: | Anne-Marie Cantwell Diana diZerega Wall |
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Institution: | (1) Rutgers University-Newark, Newark, NJ, USA;(2) The City College of the City University of New York, New York, NY, USA |
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Abstract: | Here, we study the Algonquian and Iroquoian women who lived in settlements surrounding the Dutch colony of New Netherland,
in today’s northeastern United States. We begin by examining their roles in the colony and find that their lives did not fall
into the pattern of servitude, concubinage, culture-brokering, and intermarriage that many have seen as the fate of Native
or African women in other colonial societies. Instead, these women were, by and large, independent agents and followed their
own indigenous customs as they interacted with Europeans. We then go on to explore how this new revisionist view of their
actions affects archaeological interpretations of their households and the households of the Europeans as well. We further
point out how the role of Native women in New Netherland was influenced in part by the presence and absence of other groups
of women—both European and African—there. |
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