Life among the Indians : First Fieldwork among the Sioux and Omahas.

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Alice C. Fletcher (1838-1923), one of the few women who became anthropologists in the United States during the nineteenth century, was a pioneer in the practice of participant-observation ethnography. She focused her studies over many years among the Native tribes in Nebraska and South Dakota. Life...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Fletcher, Alice C. (Alice Cunningham), 1838-1923
Otros Autores: Scherer, Joanna C., DeMallie, Raymond J., 1946-2021
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lincoln : UNP - Nebraska, 2013.
Temas:
Fletcher, Alice C. > (Alice Cunningham), > 1838-1923.
Fletcher, Alice C. > (Alice Cunningham), > 1838-1923
Women anthropologists > Great Plains > Biography.
Dakota Indians > Social life and customs.
Omaha Indians > Social life and customs.
Femmes anthropologues > Grandes Plaines > Biographies.
Dakota > Mœurs et coutumes.
Omaha > Mœurs et coutumes.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > Native American Studies.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
Dakota Indians > Social life and customs
Omaha Indians > Social life and customs
Women anthropologists
Great Plains
Biographies
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Illustrations; Introduction; Foreword; Prologue; Part I. Camping with the Sioux; 1. Over the Border; 2. Reporting; 3. The Welcome; 4. The Chief 's Entertainment; 5. The White Man's Shadow; 6. An Outline Chapter; 7. The Indian Woman; 8. The Woman's Society; 9. Acting out a Vision; 10. Journeying with the Indians; 11. Natives and Visitors; 12. A Religious Festival; 13. The Ghost Lodge; 14. Beef versus Men; Part II. The Omahas at Home; 15. Among the Omahas ·; 16. The Young Mother; 17. An Indian's Story; 18. Child Life; 19. Hunting.
  • 20. Winter and War21. Friends and Lovers; 22. The Make-Believe White Men; 23. The Schoolboys; 24. Our Land; 25. Starting Afresh; 26. The Sacred Pipes; Appendix; List of Abbreviations; Notes; Sources Documenting Fletcher's Fieldworkamong the Omahas and Sioux; Bibliography; Index.

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