Anthropology Colloquium is the department’s speaker series that invites a mixture of anthropologists from within and outside of UBC to present their research. This speaker series is scheduled throughout the academic year, typically with a lunch reception in the AnSo Lounge.
Entangled in the Fur Trade: The Archaeology of Contact on the Lower Columbia River
Thursday October 18th, 2012
ANSO 134 11:30-1:00
Dr. Kenneth Ames
Professor Emeritus of Anthropology
Department of Anthropology
Portland State University
Abstract:
The fur trade era on the Lower Columbia River has often been presented by scholars through the lens of Euoamerican documentary sources. Archaeological research on the lower river since 1987 provides significant lines of evidence of local and regional Native responses to and participation in the fur trade. The term “entanglement” is used by Anthropologists to describe how contact was not a one-way street. In this case, for example, the fur traders entered an ancient, well-established system of trade, exchange and values. The word also encompasses the multiple ways Native peoples engaged in the fur trade at multiple scales (individual, household, community, region).
