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Notes Toward Wasteland: Information Exchange and Alterity in Hudson's Bay Company Travel Writing from the Snake River Basin, 1824-1829.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Notes Toward Wasteland: Information Exchange and Alterity in Hudson's Bay Company Travel Writing from the Snake River Basin, 1824-1829./
Author:	Boyle, Maureen Patrice.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2021,
Description:	352 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 82-11, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International82-11A.
Subject:	Cultural anthropology. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=28418152
ISBN:	9798738632303

Notes Toward Wasteland: Information Exchange and Alterity in Hudson's Bay Company Travel Writing from the Snake River Basin, 1824-1829.
Boyle, Maureen Patrice.

Notes Toward Wasteland: Information Exchange and Alterity in Hudson's Bay Company Travel Writing from the Snake River Basin, 1824-1829. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2021 - 352 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 82-11, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, 2021.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

In the decades following the War of 1812, the Hudson's Bay Company advanced Great Britain's expansionist aims in the Oregon Territory south of the 49th parallel of latitude through organized incursions into Newe (Shoshone and Bannock) lands under the Snake River Expedition. The following dissertation examines the production of social and natural knowledge in Snake River Expedition travel writing during the field commands of Alexander Ross (1824) and Peter Skene Ogden (1824-1829). Over its long history of colonial administration in North America, the Hudson's Bay Company kept meticulous records of trading activities and generated a significant body of travel literature comprised of letters and post journals written by Company agents, often while traveling on hinterland expeditions. I argue that the Snake River Expedition journals operated as a communications technology intended to collect and circulate information derived from field reconnaissance and fur trade exchange activities in the Snake Country hinterlands. In turn, Company administrators expected to read post journals of expeditionary travel as a form of reportage. I conclude that this colonialist reading continues to problematically shape scholarly approaches to early Anglo-colonial travel literature as an ethnohistorical record based on field observation. In particular, I evaluate the connections between early Anglo-colonial travel writing and the theoretical paradigms and writing practices that have shaped Great Basin anthropology since the publication of Julian Steward's (1938) Basin-Plateau. I explore information exchange as a critical lens for situating Hudson's Bay Company travel writing within historical processes of cultural contact and fur trade exchange in Newe lands. I conclude that information exchange emerged as the dominant mode of fur trade exchange on the Snake River Expedition between 1824 and 1829 reflecting, in part, Ogden's attempt to graft onto flows of information centered at Newe gathering places. Lastly, I examine the Snake River Expedition journals as narrative texts entrained in historical discourse on the "self" and "other" relations of British imperial travel in North America, ultimately representing the Snake Country as an antiutopian wasteland marked by privation, instability, and a "cursed" fate tied to the Company's overharvesting practices and perceptions of Indigenous mobility and exchange as transgressive.

ISBN: 9798738632303Subjects--Topical Terms:

2122764
Cultural anthropology.
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British travel literature

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