Many Faces of Gender: Roles and Relationships through Time in Indigenous Northern Communities

Edited by Lisa Frink, Rita S. Shepard, & Gregory A. Reinhardt

Copublished with University Press of Colorado

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1-55238-093-9
272 pp.
6" x 9"
8 b/w photos
16 line drawings, 13 tables, 1 map
Northern Lights Series, No. 2
ISSN 1701-0004

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Northern Studies

About the Book

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 prehistorical, 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.

“[One] of the few works dealing with Northern societies that can claim to have relevance outside of its regional ethnographic area.”
Mark Nutall, author of Protecting the Arctic: Indigenous Peoples and Cultural Survival

About the Editors

Lisa Frink is a graduate student in anthropology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Rita S. Shepard is co-ordinator of education outreach and a research associate at the Costen Institute of Archeology at UCLA.

Gregory A. Reinhardt is professor of anthropology at the University of Indianapolis.

Contributors

Lillian A. Ackerman
Hetty Jo Brumbach
Barbara A. Crass
Brian W. Hoffman
Robert Jarvenpa
Carol Zane Jolles
Henry Stewart
Jennifer Ann Tobey
Peter Whitridge

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