Remarques critiques sur l’historiographie des Choctaw

Patricia Galloway’s historical work on the Choctaw of the Southeastern United States has mainly focused on their coalescent dynamic as a people. In such ethnogenetic perspective, it is commonly assumed that regional subdivisions of the Choctaw in the 18th century trace back to ancient ethnical bound...

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Main Author: Benjamin Balloy
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Société des américanistes 2019-06-01
Series:Journal de la Société des Américanistes
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/jsa/16953
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description Patricia Galloway’s historical work on the Choctaw of the Southeastern United States has mainly focused on their coalescent dynamic as a people. In such ethnogenetic perspective, it is commonly assumed that regional subdivisions of the Choctaw in the 18th century trace back to ancient ethnical boundaries. Furthering the “multiethnic confederacy” hypothesis, Greg O’Brien recently promoted the idea that the conflict of 1748-1750, between a so-called “pro-French” and a so-called “pro-British” faction among the Choctaw, could be analyzed as the persistent effect of such ethnogenesis. This article, through a close examination of early 18th century documentary evidence, questions these lines and calls for a better apreciation of the sociological aspects of such segmentation.
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Remarques critiques sur l’historiographie des Choctaw
Journal de la Société des Américanistes
ethnogenesis
Choctaw
ethnohistory
dualism (social organization)
segmentation
18th century
title Remarques critiques sur l’historiographie des Choctaw
title_full Remarques critiques sur l’historiographie des Choctaw
title_fullStr Remarques critiques sur l’historiographie des Choctaw
title_full_unstemmed Remarques critiques sur l’historiographie des Choctaw
title_short Remarques critiques sur l’historiographie des Choctaw
title_sort remarques critiques sur l historiographie des choctaw
topic ethnogenesis
Choctaw
ethnohistory
dualism (social organization)
segmentation
18th century
url http://journals.openedition.org/jsa/16953
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