Material Culture of Socially Mobile Acadians in Ascension Parish Louisiana 1840-1860: Landry Family Case Studies of Evolution into Landownership and Comfortable Wealth
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Introduction Mark A. Rees examined South Louisiana identity and its relationship to the le Grand Derangement. In his investigation of the Armand Broussard homesite he concludes that there is a tangible connection of the built historical landscape of Acadiana to the cultural impacts of displacement (Rees 2008, 252). He also suggests that Acadian culture should be seen in a context of assimilation or acculturation versus resistance and persistence is misguided (Rees 2008, 254).The following quote from this article both puts Rees‘s article in to context and encourages the study conducted here:
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