Empowerment of North American Indian girls : ritual expressions at puberty / / Carol A. Markstrom
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| Autore: |
Markstrom Carol A
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| Titolo: |
Empowerment of North American Indian girls : ritual expressions at puberty / / Carol A. Markstrom
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| Pubblicazione: | Lincoln, : University of Nebraska Press, c2008 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| 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 |
| 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.: | 9910812199803321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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