Gordon M Sayre
Biographic Data
| ID | 164326 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gordon M Sayre |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gordon M |
| FAMILY NAME | Sayre |
| SIGNATURE | SAYRE G M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oregon |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5630-9563 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Delaye on the Natchez war of 1729–1730
Jean-Baptiste Delaye was a French settler at Pointe Coupée on the lower Mississippi River when the Natchez nation rose up against the French colony there and killed more than 230 on November 28, 1729. Delaye was captain of the local militia and fought alongside French military troops in the retaliation against the Natchez that winter. He composed a memoir of more than 20,000 words about his experience, which he completed on June 1, 1730. Delaye’s…
Surface Acting Loss Spirals: Getting Unstuck With Recovery Activities
In service work, emotional labor is primarily performed by surface acting (modifying expressions) and deep acting (modifying moods). Deep acting is clearly more effective for performance and less costly to health, raising the question—why do employees use the less effective strategy of surface acting? Conservation of resources theory suggests that when employees lack sufficient energy resources, they are more likely to conserve resources and rely…
Insects and the American Farmer: Crèvecœur's Response to Buffon's and Raynal's Theories of American Nature
J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur's Letters from an American Farmer includes memorable scenes in which the farmer revives bees he has rescued from the craw of a king bird, and welcomes a hornet's nest inside his house. As I will argue, the book represented insects in a sentimental manner, as a retort to theories advanced by Guillaume-Thomas Raynal, and Georges-Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon, that insects were noxious and overabundant in America. In…
The Alexandrian Library of Life
In the last quarter-century many scientific, environmental, and popular publications have used a metaphor comparing species extinction and the loss of biodiversity in the modern era to the destruction of the ancient Library of Alexandria in Egypt more than 1,500 years ago. The rhetorical figure is characteristic of the environmental humanities, for it invokes the value of cultural and literary treasures to reinforce the importance of biological d…
Self-Portraiture and Commodification in the Work of Huron/Wendat Artist Zacharie Vincent, aka “Le Dernier Huron”
Zacharie Vincent, or Tehariolin (1815–1886), was a Huron/Wendat artist from the Wendake reserve community near Quebec City. He took up painting in 1838 after posing for a portrait by celebrated French-Canadian artist Antoine Plamondon, entitled “Le dernier Huron” (“The Last Huron”). Tehariolin’s extant works include landscapes and local-color sketches, but are most notable for his many self-portraits, in which he depicted himself wearing chiefly …
How to succeed in exploration without really discovering anything: Four French travelers in colonial Louisiana, 1714–63
Histories of colonial America in the last 20 years have emphasized European empires and the borderlands where empires confronted one another and the native peoples of the continent. The French colonies of New France and Louisiana did not truly control a vast territory however, only a chain of posts along major rivers. French Louisiana also never developed a profitable staple commodity such as sugar in the West Indies or pelts in New France. This …
Queequeg's Coffin: Indigenous Literacies and Early American Literature
Birgit Brander Rasmussen quotes Jean-Jacques Rousseau from his “Essay on the Origins of Languages” (published posthumously in 1781): “the depicting of objects is appropriate to Savage people; signs of words and propositions, to a barbaric people, and the alphabet to civilized peoples” (pp. 28–29). She argues that this ethnocentric stage theory is false and inhibited efforts to decipher Mayan and Egyptian writing, which are not so pictographic as …
A Newly Discovered Manuscript Map by Antoine-Simon Le Page du Pratz
En 2007, la bibliothèque du Congrès a acquis une carte manuscrite de la main d’Antoine-Simon Le Page du Pratz, colon de la Louisiane française et auteur de l’Histoire de la Louisiane (1758). La carte a été faite peu après le retour de l’auteur en France en 1734. Pour les historiens de la colonie française et de sa cartographie, cette nouvelle carte est très intéressante. D’abord, elle ne fait aucune référence à Moncacht-apé, un indien Yazoo qui, …
Jefferson and Native Americans: Policy and archive
For many students and teachers who read Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia , one of the most striking or disturbing passages in the text may be the description of Jefferson's experiments as an archaeologist, in Query XI, “Aborigines.” Native American burial mounds, or “Barrows . . . are to be found all over this country” of Virginia, he wrote. Local legends offered various accounts of which, why, or how many individuals were buried beneat…
La Révolte Des Natchez
Book Review| October 01 2009 La Révolte Des Natchez By Arnaud Balvay. (Paris: Editions du Felin, 2008. €21.00 paper.) Gordon M. Sayre Gordon M. Sayre Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2009) 56 (4): 783–785. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2009-048 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Pe…
Melodramas of Rebellion: Metamora and the Literary Historiography of King Philip's War in the 1820s
GORDON SAYRE Melodramas of Rebellion: Metamora and the Literary Historiography of King Philip's War in the 1820s "It is not now a time to talk of aught But chains, or conquest, liberty, or death" Cato, in Joseph Addison's Cato (1712) 2.4.79-80 "Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death"…
The Mammoth: Endangered Species or Vanishing Race
JEMCS 1.1 (Spring/ Summer2001) The Mammoth: Endangered Species or Vanishing Race? GordonSayre January2000, ranchers,ecologists,conservationists, and federalland managersgatheredfora conference in Douglas, Arizona,concerningthe Malpai borderlands,a regionof the Sonoran desertstraddlingMexico,NewMexico,and Arizona.1 Manyat theconference shareda belief thatfire suppressionand realestatedevelopment, notranching, are thebiggestthreatsto regionalecosys…
American Monster: How the Nation's First Prehistoric Creature Became a Symbol of National Identity
In 1801, the first complete mastodon skeleton was excavated in the Hudson River Valley, marking the climax of a century-long debate in America and Europe over the identity of a mysterious creature known as the American Incognitum. Long before the dinosaurs were discovered and the notion of geological time acquired currency, many citizens of the new republic believed this mythical beast to be a ferocious carnivore, capable of crushing deer and elk…
Les Sauvages Americains: Representations of Native Americans in French and English Colonial Literature
The Americas in Italian Literature and Culture, 1700-1825
Journal Article The Americas in Italian Literature and Culture, 1700–1825. By Stefania Buccini. Trans. by Rosanna Giammanco. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press and Les Sauvages Américains: Representations of Native Americans in French and English Colonial Literature. By Gordon M. Sayre. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press Get access Louise K. Barnett Louise K. Barnett Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey Sea…
Les Sauvages Americains: Representations of Native Americans in French and English Colonial Literature
Captivity canons
Captivity Canons Gordon M. Sayre Captured by Texts: Puritan to Post-Modern Images of Indian Captivity. By Gary L. Ebersole. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1995. 322 pages. $45.00 (cloth). $18.50 (paper). Bound and Determined: Captivity, Culture-Crossing, and White Womanhood from Mary Rowlandson to Patty Hearst. By Christopher Castiglia. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. 254 pages. $35.00 (cloth). $13.95 (paper). Captivit…
Les Sauvages Americaines: Representions of Native Americans in French and English Colonial Literature
Defying Assimilation, Confounding Authenticity: The Case of William Apess
1996). Defying Assimilation, Confounding Authenticity: The Case of William Apess. a/b: Auto/Biography Studies: Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 1-18
More Letters from the American Farmer: An Edition of the Essays in English Left Unpublished by Crevecoeur
Histoire de la littérature amérindienne au Québec. Diane Boudreau
Surface Acting Loss Spirals: Getting Unstuck With Recovery Activities
In service work, emotional labor is primarily performed by surface acting (modifying expressions) and deep acting (modifying moods). Deep acting is clearly more effective for performance and less costly to health, raising the question—why do employees use the less effective strategy of surface acting? Conservation of resources theory suggests that when employees lack sufficient energy resources, they are more likely to conserve resources and rely…
The Alexandrian Library of Life
In the last quarter-century many scientific, environmental, and popular publications have used a metaphor comparing species extinction and the loss of biodiversity in the modern era to the destruction of the ancient Library of Alexandria in Egypt more than 1,500 years ago. The rhetorical figure is characteristic of the environmental humanities, for it invokes the value of cultural and literary treasures to reinforce the importance of biological d…
The Mammoth: Endangered Species or Vanishing Race
JEMCS 1.1 (Spring/ Summer2001) The Mammoth: Endangered Species or Vanishing Race? GordonSayre January2000, ranchers,ecologists,conservationists, and federalland managersgatheredfora conference in Douglas, Arizona,concerningthe Malpai borderlands,a regionof the Sonoran desertstraddlingMexico,NewMexico,and Arizona.1 Manyat theconference shareda belief thatfire suppressionand realestatedevelopment, notranching, are thebiggestthreatsto regionalecosys…
Defying Assimilation, Confounding Authenticity: The Case of William Apess
1996). Defying Assimilation, Confounding Authenticity: The Case of William Apess. a/b: Auto/Biography Studies: Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 1-18
Queequeg's Coffin: Indigenous Literacies and Early American Literature
Birgit Brander Rasmussen quotes Jean-Jacques Rousseau from his “Essay on the Origins of Languages” (published posthumously in 1781): “the depicting of objects is appropriate to Savage people; signs of words and propositions, to a barbaric people, and the alphabet to civilized peoples” (pp. 28–29). She argues that this ethnocentric stage theory is false and inhibited efforts to decipher Mayan and Egyptian writing, which are not so pictographic as …
The Americas in Italian Literature and Culture, 1700-1825
Journal Article The Americas in Italian Literature and Culture, 1700–1825. By Stefania Buccini. Trans. by Rosanna Giammanco. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press and Les Sauvages Américains: Representations of Native Americans in French and English Colonial Literature. By Gordon M. Sayre. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press Get access Louise K. Barnett Louise K. Barnett Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey Sea…
Defying Assimilation, Confounding Authenticity: The Case of William Apess
1996). Defying Assimilation, Confounding Authenticity: The Case of William Apess. a/b: Auto/Biography Studies: Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 1-18
More Letters from the American Farmer: An Edition of the Essays in English Left Unpublished by Crevecoeur
Histoire de la littérature amérindienne au Québec. Diane Boudreau
Les Sauvages Americains: Representations of Native Americans in French and English Colonial Literature
The Americas in Italian Literature and Culture, 1700-1825
Journal Article The Americas in Italian Literature and Culture, 1700–1825. By Stefania Buccini. Trans. by Rosanna Giammanco. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press and Les Sauvages Américains: Representations of Native Americans in French and English Colonial Literature. By Gordon M. Sayre. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press Get access Louise K. Barnett Louise K. Barnett Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey Sea…
Les Sauvages Americains: Representations of Native Americans in French and English Colonial Literature
Captivity canons
Captivity Canons Gordon M. Sayre Captured by Texts: Puritan to Post-Modern Images of Indian Captivity. By Gary L. Ebersole. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1995. 322 pages. $45.00 (cloth). $18.50 (paper). Bound and Determined: Captivity, Culture-Crossing, and White Womanhood from Mary Rowlandson to Patty Hearst. By Christopher Castiglia. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. 254 pages. $35.00 (cloth). $13.95 (paper). Captivit…
Les Sauvages Americaines: Representions of Native Americans in French and English Colonial Literature
The Mammoth: Endangered Species or Vanishing Race
JEMCS 1.1 (Spring/ Summer2001) The Mammoth: Endangered Species or Vanishing Race? GordonSayre January2000, ranchers,ecologists,conservationists, and federalland managersgatheredfora conference in Douglas, Arizona,concerningthe Malpai borderlands,a regionof the Sonoran desertstraddlingMexico,NewMexico,and Arizona.1 Manyat theconference shareda belief thatfire suppressionand realestatedevelopment, notranching, are thebiggestthreatsto regionalecosys…
American Monster: How the Nation's First Prehistoric Creature Became a Symbol of National Identity
In 1801, the first complete mastodon skeleton was excavated in the Hudson River Valley, marking the climax of a century-long debate in America and Europe over the identity of a mysterious creature known as the American Incognitum. Long before the dinosaurs were discovered and the notion of geological time acquired currency, many citizens of the new republic believed this mythical beast to be a ferocious carnivore, capable of crushing deer and elk…
Melodramas of Rebellion: Metamora and the Literary Historiography of King Philip's War in the 1820s
GORDON SAYRE Melodramas of Rebellion: Metamora and the Literary Historiography of King Philip's War in the 1820s "It is not now a time to talk of aught But chains, or conquest, liberty, or death" Cato, in Joseph Addison's Cato (1712) 2.4.79-80 "Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death"…
Jefferson and Native Americans: Policy and archive
For many students and teachers who read Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia , one of the most striking or disturbing passages in the text may be the description of Jefferson's experiments as an archaeologist, in Query XI, “Aborigines.” Native American burial mounds, or “Barrows . . . are to be found all over this country” of Virginia, he wrote. Local legends offered various accounts of which, why, or how many individuals were buried beneat…
La Révolte Des Natchez
Book Review| October 01 2009 La Révolte Des Natchez By Arnaud Balvay. (Paris: Editions du Felin, 2008. €21.00 paper.) Gordon M. Sayre Gordon M. Sayre Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2009) 56 (4): 783–785. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2009-048 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Pe…
A Newly Discovered Manuscript Map by Antoine-Simon Le Page du Pratz
En 2007, la bibliothèque du Congrès a acquis une carte manuscrite de la main d’Antoine-Simon Le Page du Pratz, colon de la Louisiane française et auteur de l’Histoire de la Louisiane (1758). La carte a été faite peu après le retour de l’auteur en France en 1734. Pour les historiens de la colonie française et de sa cartographie, cette nouvelle carte est très intéressante. D’abord, elle ne fait aucune référence à Moncacht-apé, un indien Yazoo qui, …
Queequeg's Coffin: Indigenous Literacies and Early American Literature
Birgit Brander Rasmussen quotes Jean-Jacques Rousseau from his “Essay on the Origins of Languages” (published posthumously in 1781): “the depicting of objects is appropriate to Savage people; signs of words and propositions, to a barbaric people, and the alphabet to civilized peoples” (pp. 28–29). She argues that this ethnocentric stage theory is false and inhibited efforts to decipher Mayan and Egyptian writing, which are not so pictographic as …
How to succeed in exploration without really discovering anything: Four French travelers in colonial Louisiana, 1714–63
Histories of colonial America in the last 20 years have emphasized European empires and the borderlands where empires confronted one another and the native peoples of the continent. The French colonies of New France and Louisiana did not truly control a vast territory however, only a chain of posts along major rivers. French Louisiana also never developed a profitable staple commodity such as sugar in the West Indies or pelts in New France. This …
Self-Portraiture and Commodification in the Work of Huron/Wendat Artist Zacharie Vincent, aka “Le Dernier Huron”
Zacharie Vincent, or Tehariolin (1815–1886), was a Huron/Wendat artist from the Wendake reserve community near Quebec City. He took up painting in 1838 after posing for a portrait by celebrated French-Canadian artist Antoine Plamondon, entitled “Le dernier Huron” (“The Last Huron”). Tehariolin’s extant works include landscapes and local-color sketches, but are most notable for his many self-portraits, in which he depicted himself wearing chiefly …
The Alexandrian Library of Life
In the last quarter-century many scientific, environmental, and popular publications have used a metaphor comparing species extinction and the loss of biodiversity in the modern era to the destruction of the ancient Library of Alexandria in Egypt more than 1,500 years ago. The rhetorical figure is characteristic of the environmental humanities, for it invokes the value of cultural and literary treasures to reinforce the importance of biological d…
Insects and the American Farmer: Crèvecœur's Response to Buffon's and Raynal's Theories of American Nature
J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur's Letters from an American Farmer includes memorable scenes in which the farmer revives bees he has rescued from the craw of a king bird, and welcomes a hornet's nest inside his house. As I will argue, the book represented insects in a sentimental manner, as a retort to theories advanced by Guillaume-Thomas Raynal, and Georges-Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon, that insects were noxious and overabundant in America. In…
Surface Acting Loss Spirals: Getting Unstuck With Recovery Activities
In service work, emotional labor is primarily performed by surface acting (modifying expressions) and deep acting (modifying moods). Deep acting is clearly more effective for performance and less costly to health, raising the question—why do employees use the less effective strategy of surface acting? Conservation of resources theory suggests that when employees lack sufficient energy resources, they are more likely to conserve resources and rely…
Delaye on the Natchez war of 1729–1730
Jean-Baptiste Delaye was a French settler at Pointe Coupée on the lower Mississippi River when the Natchez nation rose up against the French colony there and killed more than 230 on November 28, 1729. Delaye was captain of the local militia and fought alongside French military troops in the retaliation against the Natchez that winter. He composed a memoir of more than 20,000 words about his experience, which he completed on June 1, 1730. Delaye’s…
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