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Circle of goods : women, work, and welfare in a reservation community /
Circle of Goods compiles the stories of Native American women and examines their kinship, wage work, and informal economies. Responding to the upheavals of reservation life brought about by federal policies -- from commodity rations to welfare reform -- Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara women, each with d...
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Albany :
State University of New York Press,
©2003.
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| Collection: | SUNY series in the anthropology of work.
SUNY series in anthropological studies of contemporary issues. |
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
| Résumé: | Circle of Goods compiles the stories of Native American women and examines their kinship, wage work, and informal economies. Responding to the upheavals of reservation life brought about by federal policies -- from commodity rations to welfare reform -- Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara women, each with distinct histories and cultural practices, stand at the center of the Fort Berthold reservation economy. Berman introduces the concept of ceremonial relations of production to explain the contradictory effects of economic incentives and cultural commitments, and argues that the historical movement of people and goods through a series of structured dependencies often gives rise to creative strategies for survival and new social identities. |
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| Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (xviii, 154 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliographie: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780791487891 079148789X 0791455351 9780791455357 9780791455364 079145536X |