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Life Among the Indians: First Fieldwork Among the Sioux and Omahas

Life Among the Indians: First Fieldwork Among the Sioux and Omahas

Scherer, Joanna C.
Fletcher, Alice C.
Demallie, Raymond J.

Hardcover

Series: Studies in the Anthropology of North American Indians

Biographies GeneralNative American HistoryAnthropology

ISBN10: 0803241151
ISBN13: 9780803241152
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: Dec 1 2013
Pages: 432
Weight: 1.75
Height: 1.50 Width: 6.50 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
Alice C. Fletcher (1838-1923), one of the few women who became anthropologists in the United States during the nineteenth century, was a pioneer in the practice of participant-observation ethnography. She focused her studies over many years among the Native tribes in Nebraska and South Dakota.
Life among the Indians, Fletcher's popularized autobiographical memoir written in 1886-87 about her first fieldwork among the Sioux and the Omahas during 1881-82, remained unpublished in Fletcher's archives at the Smithsonian Institution for more than one hundred years. In it Fletcher depicts the humor and hardships of her field experiences as a middle-aged woman undertaking anthropological fieldwork alone, while showing genuine respect and compassion for Native ways and beliefs that was far ahead of her time. What emerges is a complex and fascinating picture of a woman questioning the cultural and gender expectations of nineteenth-century America while insightfully portraying rapidly changing reservation life.

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