Two-Spirit People Native American Gender Identity, Sexuality, and Spirituality

Name: Two-Spirit People Native American Gender Identity, Sexuality, and Spirituality
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ISBN: 9780252066450

ISBN-10: 0252066456

ISBN-13: 9780252066450

Edition: 1997

Authors: Sue-Ellen Jacobs, Wesley Thomas, Sabine Lang

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Book details

List price: $27.00
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Publication date: 7/1/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.20" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction




Is the "North American Berdache" Merely a Phantom in the Imagination of Western Social Scientists"




The Northern Athapaskan "Berdache" Reconsidered On Reading More Than There Is in the Ethnographic Record




Cross-Dressing and Shamanism among Selected Western North American Tribes




Various Kinds of Two-Spirit People: Gender Variance and Homosexuality in Native American Communities




Traditions of Gender Diversity and Sexualities: A Female to Male Transgendered Perspective




Changing Native American Roles in an Urban Context and Changing Native American Sex Roles in an Urban Context




Navajo Cultural Constructions of Gender and Sexuality




A Navajo Worldview and Nadleehi: Implications for Western Categories




M. Dragonfly: Two-Spirit and the Tafoya Principle of Uncertainty




I Am a Lakota Womyn




Traditional Influences on a Contemporary Gay-Identified Sisseton Dakota




A Postcolonial Colonial Perspective on Western [Mis]Conceptions of the Cosmos and the Restoration of Indigenous Taxonomies




Navajo Warrior Women: An Ancient Tradition in a Modern World




I Ask You to Listen to Who I Am




A "Berdache" by Any Other Name ... Is a Brother, Friend, Lover, Spouse: Reflections on a Mescalero Apache Singer of Ceremonies




Gender Statuses, Gender Features, and Gender/Sex Categories: New Perspectives on an Old Paradigm




On the Incommensurality of Gender Categories




You Anthropologists Make Sure You Get Your Words Right




The Dilemmas of Desire: From "Berdache" to Two-Spirit




Native American Genders and Sexualities: Beyond Anthropological Models and Misrepresentations




Dealing with Homophobia in Everyday Life



Contributors


Index