Oglala Women: Myth, Ritual and Reality. - Marla N. Powers
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Based on interviews and life histories collected over more than twenty-five years of study on the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota, Marla N. Powers conveys what it means to be an Oglala woman. Despite the myth of the Euramerican that sees Oglala women as inferior to men, and the Lakota myth that seems them as superior, in reality, Powers argues, the roles of male and female emerge as complementary. In fact, she claims, Oglala women have been better able to adapt to the dominant white culture and provide much of the stability and continuity of modern tribal life. This rich ethnographic portrait considers the complete context of Oglala life religion, economics, medicine, politics, old age and is enhanced by numerous modern and historical photographs. It is a happy event when a fine scholarly work is rendered accessible to the general reader, especially so when none of the complexity of the subject matter is sacrificed. Oglala Women is a long overdue revisionary et...
Based on interviews and life histories collected over more than twenty-five years of study on the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota, Marla N. Powers conveys what it means to be an Oglala woman. Despite the myth of the Euramerican that sees Oglala women as inferior to men, and the Lakota myth that seems them as superior, in reality, Powers argues, the roles of male and female emerge as complementary. In fact, she claims, Oglala women have been better able to adapt to the dominant white culture and provide much of the stability and continuity of modern tribal life. This rich ethnographic portrait considers the complete context of Oglala life religion, economics, medicine, politics, old age and is enhanced by numerous modern and historical photographs. It is a happy event when a fine scholarly work is rendered accessible to the general reader, especially so when none of the complexity of the subject matter is sacrificed. Oglala Women is a long overdue revisionary et...
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1986Uitgever: University of Chicago Press241 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 0226677486ISBN-13: 9780226677484Koop dit boek tweedehands
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Original publisher's orange paperback, pictorial frontcover, 8vo: illustrated title-page, xvi, 242pp., 35 photographs, chapternotes & references, list illustrations, bibliography, index, table of contents. Very fine copy. Volume: Women in Culture and Society Series) Chicago-London, University of Chicago Press 1986 [Auteur: POWERS, MARLA N.] [Jaar: 1986] [Titel: Oglala Women. Myth, Ritual and Reality.]
Original publisher's brown cloth hardback, silver title spine, pictorial orange dustjacket, 8vo: illustrated title-page, xvi, 242pp., 35 photographs, chapternotes & references, list illustrations, bibliography, index, table of contents. Fold in first 3 pages. Very fine copy. Volume: Women in Culture and Society Series) Chicago-London, University of Chicago Press 1986 [Auteur: POWERS, MARLA N.] [Jaar: 1986] [Titel: Oglala Women. Myth, Ritual and Reality.]
