Living Through the Generations : Continuity and Change in Navajo Women's Lives /
McCloskey draws from ethnographic interviews with 77 Crown Point, New Mexico Navajo women to depict the cross-sections and distinctions among three generations--grandmothers, mid-life mothers, and young mothers--as they navigate the matrilineal traditions in Navajo society and the influence of wider...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Tucson :
University of Arizona Press,
2007.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- Three generations of Navajo women
- Navajo women's lives in historical and cultural context
- Navajo women and education
- Navajo women's transition to the labor force
- The family as custodian of tradition and agent of change
- Wealth in children
- Motherhood in Navajo society
- Guardians of cultural knowledge
- Themes in Crownpoint area Navajo women's lives.