ISBN:
0-8032-3716-2
,
978-0-8032-3716-2
,
0-8032-8760-7
,
978-0-8032-8760-0
Language:
English
Pages:
xi, 252 Seiten
Edition:
First Bison Books printing 1999
Series Statement:
Indians of the Southeast
Keywords:
USA Indianer, Südosten
;
Cherokee
;
Geschichte
;
Frau und sozialer Status
;
Frau und sozio-ökonomische Rolle
;
Soziokultureller Kontext
;
Sozio-ökonomischer Aspekt
;
Arbeitsteilung, geschlechtsspezifische
;
Kulturwandel
;
Anthropologie, soziale
Abstract:
Theda Perdue examines the roles and responsibilities of Cherokee women during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, a time of intense cultural change. While building on the research of earlier historians, she develops a uniquely complex view of the effects of contact on Native gender relations, arguing that Cherokee conceptions of gender persisted long after contact. Maintaining traditional gender roles actually allowed Cherokee women and men to adapt to new circumstances and adopt new industries and practices. (Verlagsangaben)
Description / Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements -- Prologue -- Introduction -- Part 1: A woman's world -- Constructing gender -- Defining community -- Part 2: Contact -- Trade -- War -- Part 3: "Civilization" -- A changing way of life -- Women in the early Cherokee Republic -- Selu meets Eve -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index
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