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Wives and Husbands: Gender and Age in Southern Arapaho History Volume 4

Wives and Husbands: Gender and Age in Southern Arapaho History Volume 4

Hardcover

Series: New Directions in Native American Studies, Book 4

Native American HistoryGeneral Gender Studies

ISBN10: 0806141166
ISBN13: 9780806141169
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: Oct 15 2010
Pages: 400
Weight: 1.49
Height: 1.20 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

In Wives and Husbands, distinguished anthropologist Loretta Fowler deepens readers' understanding of the gendered dimension of cultural encounters by exploring how the Arapaho gender system affected and was affected by the encounter with Americans as government officials, troops, missionaries, and settlers moved west into Arapaho country. Fowler examines Arapaho history from 1805 to 1936 through the lens of five cohorts, groups of women and men born during different year spans. Through the life stories of individual Arapahos, she vividly illustrates the experiences and actions of each cohort during a time when Americans tried to impose gender asymmetry and to undermine the Arapahos' hierarchical age relations.

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