This landmark book combines the voices of Native Americans and non-Indians, anthropologists and others, in an exploration of gender and sexuality issues as they relate to lesbian, gay, trans-gendered, and other "marked" Native Americans. Focusing on the concept of two-spirit people - individuals not necessarily gay or lesbian, transvestite or bisexual, but whose behaviors or beliefs may sometimes be interpreted by others as uncharacteristic of their sex - this book is the first to provide an intimate look at how many two-spirit people feel about themselves, how other Native Americans treat them, and how anthropologists and other scholars interpret them and their cultures.
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"This volume converts a lifeless, stereotyped image into a vast array of living, breathing, thinking, and talking people." -- William L. Leap, coeditor of Out in the Field: Reflections of Lesbian and Gay Anthropologists
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25 of 28 people found the following review helpful:
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It reads like a term paper,
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This review is from: Two-Spirit People: Native American Gender Identity, Sexuality, and Spirituality (Paperback)
The book had lots of good information but was hard for me to wade through. It's a series of college papers on the subject of gender and two-spirit people. I think the second half was most helpful (the stories of several two-spirits). Like I said, there was lots of info, it was just a little hard to follow.
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In 1992, nearing the twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of "Berdache: A Brief Review of the Literature" (Jacobs 1968), it became important to me to questions whether the "berdache" [sic] enterprise of the 1980s had been part of a movement for remasculinization of certain American and European men (white heterosexual males with classic education) through the exotification of "others" (particularly males of color and males living in exoticized cultures). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
female gender variance, clitoral friction, dried ovaries, following censuses, transgendered females, female berdache, gender statuses, alternative gender roles, alternate gender, mythic present, multiple genders, gender diversity, institutionalized homosexuality, gender blending, transgendered people, third gender, reservation communities Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
National Archives, Native American, North American, New York, Hoopa Valley, Indian Census Rolls, General Services Administration, American Anthropological Association, Dene Tha, United States, Old Doctor, San Francisco, Sam Brown, First Nations, Current Anthropology, Beacon Press, Gay American Indians, Little Thunder, Wesley Thomas, Other Indians, Doctor Medicine, Northern Athapaskans, Sabine Lang, Gilbert Herdt, Living the Spirit New!
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In 1992, nearing the twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of "Berdache: A Brief Review of the Literature" (Jacobs 1968), it became important to me to questions whether the "berdache" [sic] enterprise of the 1980s had been part of a movement for remasculinization of certain American and European men (white heterosexual males with classic education) through the exotification of "others" (particularly males of color and males living in exoticized cultures). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
female gender variance, clitoral friction, dried ovaries, following censuses, transgendered females, female berdache, gender statuses, alternative gender roles, alternate gender, mythic present, multiple genders, gender diversity, institutionalized homosexuality, gender blending, transgendered people, third gender, reservation communities Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
National Archives, Native American, North American, New York, Hoopa Valley, Indian Census Rolls, General Services Administration, American Anthropological Association, Dene Tha, United States, Old Doctor, San Francisco, Sam Brown, First Nations, Current Anthropology, Beacon Press, Gay American Indians, Little Thunder, Wesley Thomas, Other Indians, Doctor Medicine, Northern Athapaskans, Sabine Lang, Gilbert Herdt, Living the Spirit New!
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- Studies In Homosexuality Set by Wayne Dynes on 8 pages
- Spirit and the Flesh: Sexual Diversity in American Indian Culture by Walter L. Williams on 8 pages
- Living the Spirit: A Gay American Indian Anthology by Will Roscoe on 7 pages
- The Zuni Man-Woman by Will Roscoe on 7 pages
- Native Americans by Suzanne Morgan Williams on 7 pages
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- in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Living Sideways: Tricksters in American Indian Oral Traditions by Franchot Ballinger in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Out in Theory: The Emergence of Lesbian and Gay Anthropology by Ellen Lewin on page 63, page 154, and page 183
- Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, and Gender (Language, Power, and Social Process) by Aneta Pavlenko on page 46, and page 47
- Same-Sex Cultures and Sexualities: An Anthropological Reader (Blackwell Readers in Anthropology) by Jennifer Robertson on page 255, and page 257
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