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The Fur Trader: From Oslo to Oxford House de Einar Odd Mortensen, Sr.

The Fur Trader: From Oslo to Oxford House

Autor Einar Odd Mortensen, Sr. Cu Gerd Kjustad Mortensen Editat de Ingrid Urberg, Daniel Sims
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 12 aug 2022

Publicată sub egida University of Alberta Press, lucrarea The Fur Trader reprezintă o recuperare istorică esențială, fundamentată pe însemnările și fotografiile originale ale lui Einar Odd Mortensen, Sr.. Autoritatea textului este consolidată de rigoarea editorială a cercetătorilor Ingrid Urberg și Daniel Sims, care au transformat manuscrisul norvegian într-o ediție critică menită să deservească atât mediul academic, cât și publicul larg interesat de istoria Americii de Nord.

Considerăm că valoarea distinctivă a acestui volum rezidă în perspectiva rară de „negustor liber”, o categorie puțin reprezentată în literatura de specialitate față de angajații marilor companii de blănuri. The Fur Trader acoperă aceeași arie tematică precum Early Fur Trade on the Northern Plains, dar cu o abordare mult mai personală și introspectivă. În timp ce volumul editat de W. Raymond Wood se concentrează pe sinteza datelor din jurnalele companiilor mari, Mortensen oferă o relatare directă despre supraviețuirea individuală și interacțiunile umane nesupravegheate de structuri corporative.

Structura narativă este organizată progresiv, de la sosirea autorului la nord de paralela 53, până la maturizarea sa profesională descrisă în capitolul „From Greenhorn to Old-Timer”. Cititorul va descoperi o analiză nuanțată a relațiilor de clasă, gen și rasă, autorii ediției integrând contextul dureros al școlilor rezidențiale și al participării indigene în război. Tonul este unul onest, Mortensen neezitând să se autoironizeze în momentele de neadaptare la rigorile vieții în Manitoba. Această ediție aduce un plus de rigoare prin includerea unui ghid de studiu interdisciplinar, facilitând utilizarea cărții în seminarele de istorie, studii indigene sau literatură de călătorie.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781772125986
ISBN-10: 1772125989
Pagini: 224
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.26 kg
Editura: University of Alberta Press
Colecția University of Alberta Press
Locul publicării:Edmonton, Canada

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Această carte este o resursă primară rară pentru oricine studiază istoria comerțului cu blănuri și relațiile dintre coloniștii europeni și comunitățile indigene din Canada. Cititorul câștigă acces la o perspectivă norvegiană inedită asupra sălbăticiei, completată de un aparat critic modern care explică nuanțele sociale și politice ale epocii. Este o lectură esențială pentru studenții de la sociologie și istorie, oferind contextul necesar înțelegerii dinamicii puterii în Manitoba interbelică.

Descriere

•This personal narrative details the years (1925-28) that Norwegian Einar Odd Mortensen spent as a free trader at posts in Pine Bluff and Oxford Lake in Manitoba. There are not many published first-hand accounts by free traders, making this a key primary resource.•Mortensen Sr. left behind notes, a draft manuscript, and pictures. Gerd Kjustad Mortensen, his daughter-in-law, brought them together into a book, published in Norwegian in 2007. There is also an edition in Finnish.•Mortensen’s original narrative has been translated from Norwegian to English, and supplemented with a scholarly introduction, thorough annotations, and a bibliography. •There is also a reading/study guide with questions for use in class discussions and writing assignments. Some of the questions focus on literature and history, while others are interdisciplinary in nature. These questions are also suitable as a reading guide for book clubs and individual readers.•This additional material presents the author as a product of Norwegian culture at the time, and is intended to guide the reader through Mortensen’s interpretations of the Indian Residential School system, the people he encounters, and Indigenous participation in the First World War. There are discussions of race, gender, and class.•Mortensen’s insights and experiences will be of interest to scholars and students in literary, Indigenous, and Scandinavian studies. It will be accessible and of interest to a general audience as well, especially enthusiasts of the fur trade.

Comentariile autorului

1 map, 28 photographs, 2 illustrations, reading guide for students and book clubs

Recenzii

“The Fur Trader provides an outsider view of life in the fur trade in the 1920s and is a text to be studied for its perspective and tone as much as for its content. Readers who enjoy travel, exploration, and fur trade history will find this book interesting and useful.” Winona Wheeler, University of Saskatchewan
“The Fur Trader recovers and contextualizes a young Norwegian‘s engaging account of his encounters with the Canadian north during his three years as a fur trader in northern Manitoba in the 1920s.” Guðrún Björk Guðsteinsdóttir, University of Iceland
"[In The Fur Trader,] Mortensen’s narrative complements the many factual and fictional stories of Norwegians’ settlement successes and failures in North America during the mass migration of Scandinavians to the United States and Canada in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Nearly one hundred years later, Dr. Ingrid Urberg and Dr. Daniel Sims have contextualized within the contemporary scholarly landscape the narrative of this European migrant’s encounter with Indigenous and non-Indigenous people during his stay in Manitoba... The disciplinary pairing and collaboration of these two scholars of Scandinavian studies and First Nations studies increases the accessibility of the original text for all lifelong learners... [They provide the] neces­sary tools to unpack and situate Mortensen’s narrative in broader discourses of history, literature, environmental studies, Indigenous studies, and Scandinavian studies." Melissa Gjellstad, Prairie History, Spring 2023
"The Fur Trader describes a cultural encounter between margin and margin.... Urberg and Sims’ introduction thoughtfully addresses the more problematic issues with the memoir itself: compiled soon after Mortensen’s return to Oslo, it reflects the racism of the early twentieth century.... The book’s introduction and annotations will also be helpful to readers interested in the Norwegian context.... [The] collaboration between the editors and the Mortensen family has resulted in an engaging and relevant book that will appeal to a broad readership.” Katelin Marit, Scandinavian-Canadian Studies Journal, 2023
“… Canadian historians Ingrid Urberg and Daniel Sims…not only capture Mortensen’s compelling authorial voice, they also frame the work’s scholarly importance…. The linear notes also provide a well-spring of scholastic knowledge on a plethora of subjects including the historical application of insect repellents, sled dog husbandry, and the precise geographical locations of the author’s adventures. No stone is left unturned in the pursuit of contextualizing Mortensen’s experiences for the modern reader.” William W. Carroll, Western Historical Quarterly 2023 (Full review at https://doi.org/10.1093/whq/whad091)
"He is good at teasing himself about being a greenhorn who needs to learn how to harness the dogs for the sleigh, how to walk with snowshoes after breaking one of his Norwegian skis, and how to spot faws in the furs brought to the trading counter. In these anecdotes, Mortensen shows how things were done at the lowest, least bureaucratic level in the fur trade, which in some other narratives is too low a level for the authors to bother discussing, thus making Mortensen’s minutely detailed descriptions well worth reading." David Malaher, Arctic, 2023 (Full review at https://www.jstor.org/stable/27300818)

Cuprins

  • Acknowledgements ix
  • Introduction xi
  • Ingrid Urberg & Daniel Sims
  • Map xli
  • 1 | North of the 53rd Parallel 1
  • 2 | Alone at the Trading Post 17
  • 3 | From Camp to Church 27
  • 4 | From Greenhorn to Old-Timer 47
  • 5 | Sons of the Wilderness 57
  • 6 | Hudson’s Bay versus Free Trader 89
  • 7 | Towards New Hunting Grounds 97
  • 8 | Days at Oxford Lake 113
  • Epilogue 127
  • A Personal Perspective on the Author and the Book
  • Gerd Kjustad Mortensen
  • Reading Guide and Discussion Questions 137
  • Notes 141
  • Bibliography 167"