Many faces of gender : roles and relationships through time in indigenous northern communities / edited By Lisa Frink, Rita S. Shepard, and Gregory A. Reinhardt.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Frink, Lisa.

Shepard, Rita S.

Reinhardt, Gregory A.

Alaska Anthropological Association. Meeting. 1998 : Anchorage, Alaska)

Series:

Northern lights series (Calgary, Alta.) ; no. 2.

Northern light series ; v 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of North America--Psychology.

Indians of North America.

Indians of North America--Sexual behavior.

Indian women--North America--Social conditions.

Indian women.

Inuit--Psychology.

Inuit.

Inuit--Sexual behavior.

Inuit women--Social conditions.

Inuit women.

Gender identity--North America.

Gender identity.

Sex role--North America.

Sex role.

Sex differences.

Ethnopsychology--North America.

Ethnopsychology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (271 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Boulder : University Press of Colorado ; Calgary, Alta., Canada : University of Calgary Press, c2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 Americas boreal reaches. This collection complements existing conceptual frameworks and develops new methodological and theoretical approaches that more fully articulate the complex nature of social, economic, political, and material relationships between indigenous men and women in this region. The contributors challenge the widespread notion that Native womens and mens roles are frozen in time, a concept precluding the possibility of differently constructed gender categories and changing power relations and roles through time. By examining the pre-historical, historical, and modern records, they demonstrate that these roles are not fixed and have indeed gradually transformed. Many Faces of Gender is ideal for anthropologists and archaeologists interested in cross-disciplinary studies of gender, households, women, and lithics.

Contents:

CONTENTS; ILLUSTRATIONS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; 1. MANY FACES: AN INTRODUCTION TO GENDER RESEARCH IN INDIGENOUS NORTHERN NORTH AMERICA; I. CONTEMPORARY RESEARCH; 2. KIPIJUITUQ IN NETSILIK SOCIETY; 3. GENDER EQUALITY IN A CONTEMPORARY INDIAN COMMUNITY; 4. CELEBRATION OF A LIFE; II. HISTORICAL AND ETHNOARCHAEOLOGICAL APPROACHES; 5. CHANGING RESIDENCE PATTERNS AND INTRADOMESTIC ROLE CHANGES; 6. RE-PEOPLING THE HOUSE; 7. FISH TALES; III. MATERIAL AND SPATIAL ANALYSIS; 8. CHILD AND INFANT BURIALS IN THE ARCTIC; 9. PUZZLING OUT GENDER-SPECIFIC "SIDES"" TO A PREHISTORIC HOUSE IN BARROW,ALASKA

10. BROKEN EYES AND SIMPLE GROOVES11. GENDER,HOUSEHOLDS,AND THE MATERIAL CONSTRUCTION OF SOCIAL DIFFERENCE; IV. SYNTHESIS AND PROJECTIONS FOR INDIGENOUS NORTHERN GENDER RESEARCH; 12. GENDER DYNAMICS IN NATIVE NORTHWESTERN NORTH AMERICA; NOTES; REFERENCES; LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX

Notes:

Papers from participants in the "Approaches to Gender in the North" symposium at the 25th annual meeting of the Alaska Anthropological Association held in Anchorage, Alaska, March 1998, and from other contributors.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-87081-751-5

1-280-50121-9

9786610501212

OCLC:

180704056