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- catalog abstract "Gender diversity - in the form of third and fourth gender roles - is one of the most common and least understood features of native North America. Such roles have been documented in over 150 tribes throughout the continent. Widely accepted, often considered holy, berdaches, as they have been termed, combine the work and social roles of men and women along with traits unique to their status. In Changing Ones, Will Roscoe carefully reconstructs the place of these roles in traditional tribal cultures and traces their history up to the present. The result is a strikingly different view of native North America. Before the arrival of Europeans, marriages between berdaches and non-berdache members of the same sex were commonplace, and individuals sometimes changed their gender because of a dream. Drawing on a series of case studies, Changing Ones goes on to explore the theoretical implications of multiple genders for the fields of anthropology, history, and gender studies, and concludes by offering some intriguing suggestions regarding the social origin of gender diversity and its role in human history in North America and elsewhere.".
- catalog contributor b10569212.
- catalog created "1998.".
- catalog date "1998".
- catalog date "1998.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1998.".
- catalog description "Foreword / Randy Burns -- 1. "Strange Country This": An Introduction to North American Gender Diversity -- 2. "That Is My Road": The Life and Times of a Third Gender Warrior -- 3. The One Who Is Changing: Hastiin Klah and the Navajo Nadleehi Tradition -- 4. Warrior Women and Women Chiefs: Alternative Identities and Genders for Native Women -- 5. Two-Spirit People: Gay American Indians Today -- 6. Gender without Sex: Toward a Theory of Gender Diversity -- 7. Dreams of Power: Third and Fourth Genders in Yuman Culture and History -- 8. Close Encounters: A Model of Native Survivance -- 9. Narratives of Domination or the Cant of Conquest?: Competing Views of Alternative Genders -- 10. Conclusion: The Past and Future of Gender Diversity.".
- catalog description "Gender diversity - in the form of third and fourth gender roles - is one of the most common and least understood features of native North America. Such roles have been documented in over 150 tribes throughout the continent. Widely accepted, often considered holy, berdaches, as they have been termed, combine the work and social roles of men and women along with traits unique to their status. In Changing Ones, Will Roscoe carefully reconstructs the place of these roles in traditional tribal cultures and traces their history up to the present. The result is a strikingly different view of native North America. Before the arrival of Europeans, marriages between berdaches and non-berdache members of the same sex were commonplace, and individuals sometimes changed their gender because of a dream. Drawing on a series of case studies, Changing Ones goes on to explore the theoretical implications of multiple genders for the fields of anthropology, history, and gender studies, and concludes by offering some intriguing suggestions regarding the social origin of gender diversity and its role in human history in North America and elsewhere.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-310) and index.".
- catalog extent "viii, 320 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0312175396".
- catalog issued "1998".
- catalog issued "1998.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : St. Martin's Press,".
- catalog spatial "North America.".
- catalog subject "305.3/089/97 21".
- catalog subject "E98.S48 R67 1998".
- catalog subject "Homosexuality North America.".
- catalog subject "Indian gays North America.".
- catalog subject "Indians of North America Sexual behavior.".
- catalog subject "Lesbianism North America.".
- catalog subject "Two-spirit people North America.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Foreword / Randy Burns -- 1. "Strange Country This": An Introduction to North American Gender Diversity -- 2. "That Is My Road": The Life and Times of a Third Gender Warrior -- 3. The One Who Is Changing: Hastiin Klah and the Navajo Nadleehi Tradition -- 4. Warrior Women and Women Chiefs: Alternative Identities and Genders for Native Women -- 5. Two-Spirit People: Gay American Indians Today -- 6. Gender without Sex: Toward a Theory of Gender Diversity -- 7. Dreams of Power: Third and Fourth Genders in Yuman Culture and History -- 8. Close Encounters: A Model of Native Survivance -- 9. Narratives of Domination or the Cant of Conquest?: Competing Views of Alternative Genders -- 10. Conclusion: The Past and Future of Gender Diversity.".
- catalog title "Changing ones : third and fourth genders in Native North America / by Will Roscoe.".
- catalog type "text".