Many faces of gender : roles and relationships through time in indigenous northern communities

Frink, Lisa. (Added Author). Shepard, Rita S. (Added Author). Reinhardt, Gregory A. (Added Author). Alaska Anthropological Association. Meeting. (25th : 1998 : Anchorage, Alaska) (Added Author).

Summary: 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.

Record details

ISBN: 0870816772 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN: 9780870816772 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN: 087081687X (pbk.)
ISBN: 9780870816871 (pbk.)
ISBN: 1552380939 (University of Calgary Press)
ISBN: 9781552380932 (University of Calgary Press)
Physical Description: print
viii, 257 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Publisher: Boulder : University Press of Colorado ; Calgary, Alta., Canada : University of Calgary Press, c2002.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Papers from participants in the "Approaches to Gender in the North" symposium at the 25th annual meeting of the Alaska Anthropological Association held in Anchorage, Alaska, March 1998, and from other contributors.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Many faces: an introduction to gender research in indigenous northern North America / Lisa Frink, Rita S. Shepard, and Gregory A. Reinhardt -- Kipijuituq in Netsilik society: changing patterns of gender and patterns of changing gender / Henry Stewart -- Gender equality in a contemporary Indian community / Lillian A. Ackerman -- Celebration of a life: remembering Linda Womkon Badten, Yupik educator / Carol Zane Jolles -- Changing residence patterns and intradomestic role changes: causes and effects in nineteenth-century western Alaska / Rita S. Shepard -- Re-peopling the house: household organization within Deg Hit'an villages, southwest Alaska / Jennifer Ann Tobey -- Fish tales: women and decision making in western Alaska / Lisa Frink -- Child and infant burials in the Arctic / Barbara A. Crass -- Puzzling out gender-specific "sides" to a prehistoric house in Barrow, Alaska / Gregory A. Reinhardt -- Broken eyes and simple grooves: understanding eastern Aleut needle technology through experimental manufacture and use of bone needles / Brian W. Hoffman -- Gender, households, and the material construction of social difference: metal consumption at a classic Thule whaling village / Peter Whitridge -- Gender dynamics in native northwestern North America: perspectives and prospects / Hetty Jo Brumbach and Robert Jarvenpa.