Many Faces of Gender
Roles and Relationships through Time in Indigenous Northern Communities
Ebook

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
Table of Contents
Many Faces of Gender | 1 |
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Contents | 6 |
List of Illustrations | 8 |
Acknowledgments | 10 |
1 Many Faces: An Introduction to Gender Research in Indigenous Northern North America | 14 |
I: CONTEMPORARY RESEARCH | 24 |
2 Kipijuituq in Netsilik Society: Changing Patterns of Gender and Patterns of Changing Gender | 26 |
3 Gender Equality in a Contemporary Indian Community | 40 |
4 Celebration of a Life: Remembering Linda Womkon Badten, Yupik Educator | 50 |
II: HISTORICAL AND ETHNOARCHAEOLOGICAl APPROACHES | 72 |
5 Changing Residence Patterns and Intradomestic Role Changes: Causes and Effects in Nineteenth-Century Western Alaska | 74 |
6 Re-peopling the House: Household Organization Within Deg Hit'an Villages, Southwest Alaska | 94 |
7 Fish Tales: Women and Decision Making in Western Alaska | 106 |
III: MATERIAL AND SPATIAL ANALYSIS | 122 |
8 Child and Infant Burials in the Arctic | 124 |
9 Puzzling Out Gender-Specific "Sides" to a Prehistoric House in Barrow, Alaska | 134 |
10 Broken Eyes and Simple Grooves: Understanding Eastern Aleut Needle Technology Through Experimental Manufacture and Use of Bone Needles | 164 |
11 Gender, Households, and the Material Construction of Social Difference: Metal Consumption at a Classic Thule Whaling Village | 178 |
IV: SYNTHESIS AND PROJECTIONS FOR MDIGENOUS NORTHERN GENDER RESEARCH | 206 |
12 Gender Dynamics in Native Northwestern North America: Perspectives and Prospects | 208 |
Notes | 224 |
References | 230 |
Contributors | 260 |
A | 262 |
Index | 262 |
B | 263 |
C | 263 |
D | 264 |
F | 264 |
E | 264 |
G | 265 |
H | 265 |
I | 266 |
K | 266 |
L | 266 |
M | 266 |
P | 267 |
N | 267 |
O | 267 |
Q | 268 |
R | 268 |
S | 268 |
T | 269 |
W | 269 |
V | 269 |
U | 269 |
Y | 270 |
Z | 270 |
Book details
- Publisher
- University of Calgary Press
- Collection
- Northern Lights
- Category
- Native American
- Published
- December 2002
- Pages
- 269
- Chapters
- 48
- Language
- English
- ISBN PDF
- 9781552383971