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Oglala Women: Myth, Ritual, and Reality

Oglala Women: Myth, Ritual, and Reality

Powers, Marla N.

Paperback

Series: Women in Culture and Society

Native American HistoryAnthropologyWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 0226677494
ISBN13: 9780226677491
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: Nov 15 1988
Pages: 258
Weight: 0.73
Height: 0.62 Width: 5.44 Depth: 8.46
Language: English
Based on interviews and life histories collected over more than twenty-five years of study on the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota, Marla N. Powers conveys what it means to be an Oglala woman. Despite the myth of the Euramerican that sees Oglala women as inferior to men, and the Lakota myth that seems them as superior, in reality, Powers argues, the roles of male and female emerge as complementary. In fact, she claims, Oglala women have been better able to adapt to the dominant white culture and provide much of the stability and continuity of modern tribal life. This rich ethnographic portrait considers the complete context of Oglala life-religion, economics, medicine, politics, old age-and is enhanced by numerous modern and historical photographs.


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