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Autore: | Markstrom Carol A |
Titolo: | Empowerment of North American Indian girls [[electronic resource] ] : ritual expressions at puberty / / Carol A. Markstrom |
Pubblicazione: | Lincoln, : University of Nebraska Press, c2008 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (455 p.) |
Disciplina: | 973.04/97 |
Soggetto topico: | Indians of North America - Social life and customs |
Indian girls - United States - Social life and customs | |
Puberty rites - United States | |
Soggetto geografico: | United States Social life and customs |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [367]-397) and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Contextual and methodological considerations -- Contemporary youth concerns in historical perspective -- North American Indian perspectives on human development -- Menstruation, cosmology, and feminism -- Historical overview of coming-of-age practices -- The Apache Sunrise Dance -- Interpretation of the Apache Sunrise Dance -- Contemporary Navajo, Lakota, and Ojibwa puberty customs -- Broader perspectives on coming-of-age. |
Sommario/riassunto: | Empowerment of North American Indian Girls is an examination of coming-of-age-ceremonies for American Indian girls past and present, featuring an in-depth look at Native ideas about human development and puberty. Many North American Indian cultures regard the transition from childhood to adulthood as a pivotal and potentially vulnerable phase of life and have accordingly devised coming-of-age rituals to affirm traditional values and community support for its members. Such rituals are a positive and enabling social force in many modern Native communities whose younger generations are wrestling |
Titolo autorizzato: | Empowerment of North American Indian girls |
ISBN: | 1-281-24135-0 |
9786611241353 | |
0-8032-1621-1 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910451595103321 |
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