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Two-spirit people : Native American gender identity, sexuality, and spirituality / edited by Sue-Ellen Jacobs, Wesley Thomas, and Sabine Lang.

Contributor(s): Jacobs, Sue-Ellen | Thomas, Wesley, 1954- | Lang, Sabine
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Urbana, Ill. : University of Illinois Press, [1997]Copyright date: ©1997Description: xiii, 331 pages : illustrations (1 color) ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0252066456 (pbk. : alk. paper); 9780252066450 (pbk. : alk. paper)Subject(s): Indians of North America -- Sexual behavior | Indian women -- Sexual behavior -- North America | Gays -- North America -- Identity | Lesbians -- North America -- Identity | Indian gays -- North America -- Social conditions | Indian lesbians -- North America -- Social conditionsDDC classification: 306.7/089/97 LOC classification: E98.S48 | T86 1997Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Is the "North American berdache" merely a phantom in the imagination of Western social scientists? / Sue-Ellen Jacobs -- The Northern Athapaskan "berdache" reconsidered : on reading more than there is in the ethnographic record / Jean-Guy A. Goulet -- Cross-dressing and shamanism among selected Western North American tribes / Arnold R. Pilling -- Various kinds of two-spirit people : gender variance and homosexuality in Native American communities / Sabine Lang -- Traditions of gender diversity and sexualities : a female-to-male transgendered perspective / Jason Cromwell -- Changing Native American roles in an urban context and changing Native American sex roles in an urban context / Beatrice Medicine (Standing Rock Lakota) -- Navajo cultural constructions of gender and sexuality / Wesley Thomas (Navajo) -- A Navajo worldview and Nádleehí : implications for Western categories / Carolyn Epple -- M. Dragonfly : two-spirit and the Tafoya Principle of Uncertainty / Terry Tafoya (Taos/Warm Springs) -- I am a Lakota womyn / Beverly Little Thunder (Standing Rock Lakota) -- Traditional influences on a contemporary gay-identified Sisseton Dakota / Michael Red Earth (Sisseton Dakota) -- A postcolonial colonial perspective on Western [mis]conceptions of the cosmos and the restoration of indigenous taxonomies / Anguksuar [Richard LaFortune](Yupík) -- Navajo warrior women : an ancient tradition in a modern world / Carrie H. House (Navajo/Oneida) -- I ask you to listen to who I am / Doyle V. Robertson (Sisseton/Wahpeton Dakota) -- A "berdache" by any other name-- is a brother, friend, lover, spouse : reflections on a Mescalero Apache singer of ceremonies / Claire R. Farrer -- Gender statuses, gender features, and gender/sex categories : new perspectives on an old paradigm / Lee M. Kochems and Sue-Ellen Jacobs -- On the incommensurability of gender categories / Alice B. Kehoe -- You anthropologists make sure you get your words right / Clyde M. Hall (Lemhi Shoshoni) -- The dilemmas of desire : from "berdache" to two-spirit / Gilbert Herdt -- Native American genders and sexualities : beyond anthropological models and misrepresentations / Evelyn Blackwood.
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Book Book John Bulow Campbell Library 1 West E98 .S48 T86 1997 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 0182903173173

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Is the "North American berdache" merely a phantom in the imagination of Western social scientists? / Sue-Ellen Jacobs -- The Northern Athapaskan "berdache" reconsidered : on reading more than there is in the ethnographic record / Jean-Guy A. Goulet -- Cross-dressing and shamanism among selected Western North American tribes / Arnold R. Pilling -- Various kinds of two-spirit people : gender variance and homosexuality in Native American communities / Sabine Lang -- Traditions of gender diversity and sexualities : a female-to-male transgendered perspective / Jason Cromwell -- Changing Native American roles in an urban context and changing Native American sex roles in an urban context / Beatrice Medicine (Standing Rock Lakota) -- Navajo cultural constructions of gender and sexuality / Wesley Thomas (Navajo) -- A Navajo worldview and Nádleehí : implications for Western categories / Carolyn Epple -- M. Dragonfly : two-spirit and the Tafoya Principle of Uncertainty / Terry Tafoya (Taos/Warm Springs) -- I am a Lakota womyn / Beverly Little Thunder (Standing Rock Lakota) -- Traditional influences on a contemporary gay-identified Sisseton Dakota / Michael Red Earth (Sisseton Dakota) -- A postcolonial colonial perspective on Western [mis]conceptions of the cosmos and the restoration of indigenous taxonomies / Anguksuar [Richard LaFortune](Yupík) -- Navajo warrior women : an ancient tradition in a modern world / Carrie H. House (Navajo/Oneida) -- I ask you to listen to who I am / Doyle V. Robertson (Sisseton/Wahpeton Dakota) -- A "berdache" by any other name-- is a brother, friend, lover, spouse : reflections on a Mescalero Apache singer of ceremonies / Claire R. Farrer -- Gender statuses, gender features, and gender/sex categories : new perspectives on an old paradigm / Lee M. Kochems and Sue-Ellen Jacobs -- On the incommensurability of gender categories / Alice B. Kehoe -- You anthropologists make sure you get your words right / Clyde M. Hall (Lemhi Shoshoni) -- The dilemmas of desire : from "berdache" to two-spirit / Gilbert Herdt -- Native American genders and sexualities : beyond anthropological models and misrepresentations / Evelyn Blackwood.

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