Many Faces of Gender: Roles and Relationships Through Time in Indigenous Northern (Boreal) Communities - Hardcover

9780870816772: Many Faces of Gender: Roles and Relationships Through Time in Indigenous Northern (Boreal) Communities

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0870816772 ISBN 13: 9780870816772

Publisher: University Press of Colorado, 2002

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 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 women's and men's 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.

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About the Author:

Lisa Frink is a member of the Anthropology department at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

Review:

"[One] of the few works dealing with Northern societies that can claim to have relevance outside of its regional ethnographic area." -- Mark Nuttall, author of Protecting the Arctic: Indigenous Peoples and Cultural Survival

"... [The editors] achieve their goal of improving the knowledge of the people of the indigenous northern communities. Furthermore, the editors expand our knowledge of all indigenous peoples." -- Journal of San Diego History

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