| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.1

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Book Review

Patrimoines Métissés: Contextes coloniaux et postcoloniaux (Crossed heritages: Colonial and postcolonial contexts). By Laurier Turgeon. (Paris: Presses de l'Université Laval, 2003. 234 pp. Paper, $25.00, ISBN 2-7351-0989-5.) In French.
In French colonial usage, a métis was a mixed-race and thereby impure person. Patrimoine is laden with issues of cultural purity. Pairing those two loaded words, Laurier Turgeon signals his intention of raising questions about the ethnographic and historical foundations of current postmodern discussions of what it means to have a culture. He examines five ingredients—archive, object, soil, landscape, and cuisine—in the making of patrimony in Quebec.	1
From the archive, Turgeon examines an official report of a ship's encounter with a sea monster, a report constructed like a traveler's tale, perhaps to emphasize the heroism of fishermen or to record a phenomenon of scientific interest to the supervising official, but revealing a complexly constructed official archive.	2
The object is the bronze chaudron (large kettle) that was so popular a trade item with First Nations people. Turgeon describes the political economy of manufacture of these items in France and then contrasts the domestic (French) and ceremonial (First Nations) uses of the objects, based on French government statistics and travelers' accounts of First Nations practices.	. . .

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