Old trails and new directions: Papers of the Third North American fur Trade Conference

This essay, a revised version of the August 2015 talk, examines the story of two mixed-blood women, indigenous and Anglo American, who lived in the fur trade North American West. The essay examines a racial category, mixed blood or “half-breed” and considers the challenges for people who lived in and used that category in the nineteenth century. The essay illuminates the challenges of using different kinds of personal records to understand how these nineteenth-century women might have thought about identity, a word they never would have used.

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New Directions in the Computational Analysis of Biblical Hebrew Grammar

Journal for Semitics ◽

10.25159/1013-8471/4628 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 27 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Cynthia Miller-Naudé ◽

Jacobus A Naudé

Keyword(s):

Southern Hemisphere ◽

Hebrew Bible ◽

North American ◽

Computational Analysis ◽

Biblical Hebrew ◽

Linguistic Theory ◽

Linguistic Variation ◽

European Database ◽

New Directions ◽

African Context

The concern of the paper is to highlight how computational analysis of Biblical Hebrew grammar can now be done in very sophisticated ways and with insightful results for exegesis. Three databases, namely, the Eep Talstra Centre for Bible and Computer (ETCBC) Database, the Accordance Hebrew Syntactic Database, and the Andersen-Forbes Syntactic Database,are compared in terms of their relation to linguistic theory (or, theories), the nature and spectrum of retrieved data, and the representation of synchronic and diachronic linguistic variation. Interaction between different contexts, including the African context, are promoted namely between linguists working on Biblical Hebrew and exegetes working on the Hebrew Bible by illustrating how exegesis and language are intimately connected, as well as among geographical contexts by comparing a European database (ETCBC), a North American database (Accordance) and a Southern hemisphere database (Andersen-Forbes).

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An Economic Analysis of Indian Behavior in the North American Fur Trade

The Journal of Economic History ◽

10.1017/s0022050700075380 ◽

1972 ◽

Vol 32 (1) ◽

pp. 36-53 ◽

Cited By ~ 17

Author(s):

John C. McManus

Keyword(s):

Economic Analysis ◽

North American ◽

Economic History ◽

Fur Trade ◽

Historical Research ◽

The North ◽

History Of ◽

The Way

This study of Indian behavior in the fur trade is offered more as a report of a study in progress than a completed piece of historical research. In fact, the research has barely begun. But in spite of its unfinished state, the tentative results of the work I have done to this point may be of some interest as an illustration of the way in which the recent revival of analytical interest in institutions may be used to develop an approach to the economic history of the fur trade.

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