We Are Dancing for You: Native Feminisms and the Revitalization of Women's Coming-of-Age Ceremonies - Couverture souple

Risling Baldy, Cutcha

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0295743441 ISBN 13 : 9780295743448

Editeur : University of Washington Press, 2018

Synopsis

“I am here. You will never be alone. We are dancing for you.” So begins Cutcha Risling Baldy’s deeply personal account of the revitalization of the women’s coming-of-age ceremony for the Hoopa Valley Tribe. At the end of the twentieth century, the tribe’s Flower Dance had not been fully practiced for decades. The women of the tribe, recognizing the critical importance of the tradition, undertook its revitalization using the memories of elders and medicine women and details found in museum archives, anthropological records, and oral histories. Deeply rooted in Indigenous knowledge, Risling Baldy brings us the voices of people transformed by cultural revitalization, including the accounts of young women who have participated in the Flower Dance. Using a framework of Native feminisms, she locates this revival within a broad context of decolonizing praxis and considers how this renaissance of women’s coming-of-age ceremonies confounds ethnographic depictions of Native women; challenges anthropological theories about menstruation, gender, and coming-of-age; and addresses gender inequality and gender violence within Native communities.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Cutcha Risling Baldy is an assistant professor of Native American Studies at Humboldt State University. This is her first book.

Coll Thrush is professor of history at the University of British Columbia. He is the author of two books: Native Seattle: Histories from the Crossing-Over Place (University of Washington Press, 2007), and Indigenous London: Native Travelers at the Heart of Empire (Yale, 2016). He is also the coeditor of Phantom Past, Indigenous Presence: Native Ghosts in North American Culture and History (University of Nebraska Press, 2011). He serves as a series editor for the University of Washington Press's Indigenous Confluences series.

Charlotte Coté is a professor in American Indian Studies at the University of Washington. She is the author of Spirits of Our Whaling Ancestors: Revitalizing Makah and Nuu-chah-nulth Traditions (University of Washington Press, 2010).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Washington Press
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0295743441
• ISBN 13: 9780295743448
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 208
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• Personne responsable: non disponible