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Title: Sifters Condition: New Format: Paperback ISBN-10: 0195130812 EAN: 9780195130812 ISBN: 9780195130812 Type: Ethnography Author: Theda Perdue Subtitle: Native American Women's Lives Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc 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 Contributor: Theda Perdue (Edited by) Genre: History Topic: Gender Sex & Relationships, Social Sciences, Society & Culture Book Series: Viewpoints on American Culture Release Year: 2001 Missing Information?
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