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Many faces of gender : roles and relationships through time in indigenous northern communities /

Many Faces of Gender is an interdisciplinary volume that addresses the dearth in descriptions and analyses of gender roles and relationships in Native societies in North America's boreal reaches. This collection complements existing conceptual frameworks and develops new methodological and theo...

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Corporate Author: Alaska Anthropological Association. Meeting
Other Authors: Frink, Lisa, Shepard, Rita S., Reinhardt, Gregory A.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Boulder, Colo. : Calgary, Alta. : University Press of Colorado ; University of Calgary Press, ©2002.
Subjects:
Indians of North America > Psychology.
Gender identity > North America.
Sex role > North America.
Sex differences.
Ethnopsychology > North America.
Indians of North America > Sexual behavior.
Indian women > North America > Social conditions.
Inuit > Psychology.
Inuit > Sexual behavior.
Inuit women > Social conditions.
Ethnopsychology.
Sex Characteristics
Ethnopsychology
ethnopsychology.
Gender roles
Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:0870817515
9780870817519
9781552383971
1552383970
0870816772
9780870816772
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Many faces: an introduction to gender research in indigenous northern North America / Lisa Frink, Rita S. Shepard, and Gregory A. Reinhardt
  • Kipijuituq in Netsilik society: changing patterns of gender and patterns of changing gender / Henry Stewart
  • Gender equality in a contemporary Indian community / Lillian A. Ackerman
  • Celebration of a life: remembering Linda Womkon Badten, Yupik educator / Carol Zane Jolles
  • Changing residence patterns and intradomestic role changes: causes and effects in nineteenth-century western Alaska / Rita S. Shepard
  • Re-peopling the house: household organization within Deg Hit'an villages, southwest Alaska / Jennifer Ann Tobey
  • Fish tales: women and decision making in western Alaska / Lisa Frink
  • Child and infant burials in the Arctic / Barbara A. Crass
  • Puzzling out gender-specific "sides" to a prehistoric house in Barrow, Alaska / Gregory A. Reinhardt
  • Broken eyes and simple grooves: understanding eastern Aleut needle technology through experimental manufacture and use of bone needles / Brian W. Hoffman
  • Gender, households, and the material construction of social difference: metal consumption at a classic Thule whaling village / Peter Whitridge
  • Gender dynamics in native northwestern North America: perspectives and prospects / Hetty Jo Brumbach and Robert Jarvenpa.

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