Living Through the Generations : Continuity and Change in Navajo Women's Lives /

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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: McCloskey, Joanne
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Tucson : University of Arizona Press, 2007.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Kulturwandel
Lebensbedingungen
Frau
Manners and customs.
Femmes navajo > Nouveau-Mexique > Crownpoint > Conditions economiques.
Femmes navajo > Nouveau-Mexique > Crownpoint > Conditions sociales.
Femmes navajo > Parente > Nouveau-Mexique > Crownpoint.
Navajo women > New Mexico > Crownpoint > Economic conditions.
Navajo women > New Mexico > Crownpoint > Social conditions.
Navajo women > Kinship > New Mexico > Crownpoint.
Navajo.
New Mexico
New Mexico > Crownpoint.
Crownpoint (N.M.) > Social life and customs.
Crownpoint (N.M.) > History.
History.
Electronic books.
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.

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