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Informationen zum Autor Joanna C. Scherer is an emeritus anthropologist at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History. She is the author of the award-winning book, A Danish Photographer of Idaho Indians: Benedicte Wrensted. Raymond J. DeMallie is Chancellors’ Professor of Anthropology, codirector of the American Indian Studies Research Institute, and curator of North American Ethnology at the Mathers Museum at Indiana University. He is the editor of The Sixth Grandfather: Black Elk’s Teachings Given to John G. Neihardt, available in a Bison Books edition. Klappentext Joanna C. Scherer is an emeritus anthropologist at the Smithsonian Institution¿s National Museum of Natural History. She is the author of the award-winning book, A Danish Photographer of Idaho Indians: Benedicte Wrensted. Raymond J. DeMallie is Chancellors¿ Professor of Anthropology, codirector of the American Indian Studies Research Institute, and curator of North American Ethnology at the Mathers Museum at Indiana University. He is the editor of The Sixth Grandfather: Black Elk¿s Teachings Given to John G. Neihardt, available in a Bison Books edition. "["Life Among the Indians"] catalogues the journey of a pioneering American ethnologist and captures the contradictions that came to the surface when Victorians attempted to communicate the humanity of American Indians to a popular audience."--Frederick E. Hoxie, Swanlund Professor of History at the University of Illinois and author of "This Indian Country"--Frederick E. Hoxie"Frederick E. Hoxie" (07/03/2013) Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of IllustrationsIntroduction"Life among the Indians" by Alice C. FletcherForeword by Francis La FlescheProloguePart I. Camping with the Sioux1. Over the Border2. Reporting3. The Welcome4. The Chief's Entertainment5. The White Man's Shadow6. An Outline Chapter7. The Indian Woman8. The Woman's Society9. Acting out a Vision10. Journeying with the Indians11. Natives and Visitors12. A Religious Festival13. The Ghost Lodge14. Beef versus MenPart II. The Omahas at Home15. Among the Omahas16. The Young Mother17. An Indian's Story18. Child Life19. Hunting20. Winter and War21. Friends and Lovers22. The Make-Believe White Men23. The Schoolboys24. Our Land25. Starting Afresh26. The Sacred PipesAppendix: Fletcher's 1881 Field SketchesList of AbbreviationsNotesSources Documenting Fletcher's Fieldwork among the Omahas and SiouxBibliographyIndex...
