Many Faces of Gender: Roles and Relationships through Time in Indigenous Northern Communities (Northern Lights, 2) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1552380939 ISBN 13: 9781552380932

Publisher: University of Calgary Press, 2002

Synopsis

Many Faces of Gender : Roles and Relationships through Time in Indigenous Northern Communities 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 prehistorical, historical, and modern records, they demonstrate that these roles are not fixed and have indeed gradually transformed. Many Faces of Gender : Roles and Relationships through Time in Indigenous Northern Communities is ideal for anthropologists and archaeologists interested in cross-disciplinary studies of gender, households, women, and lithics. With Contributions By: Lillian Ackerman Hetty Jo Brumbach Barbara Crass Lisa Frink Brian Hoffman Robert Jarvenpa Carol Zane Jolles Gregory Reinhardt Rita Shepard Henry Stewart Jennifer Ann Tobey Peter Whitridge

About this title

About the Author:

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

Rita S. Shepard is co-ordinator of education outreach and a research associate at the Costen Institute of Archeology at UCLA.

Gregory A. Reinhardt is professor of anthropology at the University of Indianapolis.

Review:

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

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Calgary Press
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1552380939
• ISBN 13: 9781552380932
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 269
• Editor: Frink Lisa, Shepard Rita S., Reinhardt Gregory A.