Empowerment of North American Indian girls : ritual expressions at puberty / Carol A. Markstrom.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Markstrom, Carol A.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of North America--Social life and customs.

Indians of North America.

Indian girls--United States--Social life and customs.

Indian girls.

Puberty rites--United States.

Puberty rites.

United States--Social life and customs.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (455 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Empowerment of North American Indian Girls is an examination of coming-of-age-ceremonies for American Indian girls past and present, featuring an in-depth look at Native ideas about human development and puberty. Many North American Indian cultures regard the transition from childhood to adulthood as a pivotal and potentially vulnerable phase of life and have accordingly devised coming-of-age rituals to affirm traditional values and community support for its members. Such rituals are a positive and enabling social force in many modern Native communities whose younger generations are wrestling

Contents:

Contextual and methodological considerations

Contemporary youth concerns in historical perspective

North American Indian perspectives on human development

Menstruation, cosmology, and feminism

Historical overview of coming-of-age practices

The Apache Sunrise Dance

Interpretation of the Apache Sunrise Dance

Contemporary Navajo, Lakota, and Ojibwa puberty customs

Broader perspectives on coming-of-age.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [367]-397) and index.

ISBN:

9786611241353

9781281241351

1281241350

9780803216211

0803216211

OCLC:

476135474