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Title: Sifters
Condition: New
Subtitle: Native American Women's Lives
Author: Theda Perdue
Contributor: Theda Perdue (Edited by)
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0195130812
EAN: 9780195130812
ISBN: 9780195130812
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Genre: History
Topic: Gender Sex & Relationships, Social Sciences, Society & Culture
Release Date: 03/05/2001
Description: In this edited volume, Theda Perdue, a nationally known expert on Indian history and southern women's history, offers a rich collection of biographical essays on Native American women. From Pocahontas, a Powhatan woman of the seventeenth century, to Ada Deer, the Menominee woman who headed the Bureau of Indian Affairs in the 1990s, the essays span four centuries. Each one recounts the experiences of women from vastly different cultural traditions--the hunting and gathering of Kumeyaay culture of Delfina Cuero, the pueblo society of San Ildefonso potter Maria Martinez, and the powerful matrilineal kinship system of Molly Brant's Mohawks. Contributors focus on the ways in which different women have fashioned lives that remain firmly rooted in their identity as Native women. Perdue's introductory essay ties together the themes running through the biographical sketches, including the cultural factors that have shaped the lives of Native women, particularly economic contributions, kinship, and belief, and the ways in which historical events, especially in United States Indian policy, have engendered change.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 236mm
Item Length: 154mm
Item Width: 19mm
Item Weight: 398g
Book Series: Viewpoints on American Culture
Type: Ethnography
Release Year: 2001

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