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Oglala Women: Myth, Ritual, and Reality (Women in Culture and Society)
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Oglala Women: Myth, Ritual, and Reality (Women in Culture and Society) Paperback - 1988

by Marla N. Powers

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  • Title Oglala Women: Myth, Ritual, and Reality (Women in Culture and Society)
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Later Printing
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 258
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Chicago Press, Chicago
  • Date 1988-11-15
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # BOS-A-07f-0001361
  • ISBN 9780226677491 / 0226677494
  • Weight 0.73 lbs (0.33 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.46 x 5.44 x 0.62 in (21.49 x 13.82 x 1.57 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Plains
    • Cultural Region: Upper Midwest
    • Ethnic Orientation: Native American
    • Geographic Orientation: North Dakota
    • Geographic Orientation: Nebraska
    • Geographic Orientation: South Dakota
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
  • Library of Congress subjects Indians of North America - Great Plains, Oglala women - South Dakota
  • Dewey Decimal Code 305.897

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From the publisher

Based on interviews and life histories collected over more than twenty-five years of study on the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota, Marla N. Powers conveys what it means to be an Oglala woman. Despite the myth of the Euramerican that sees Oglala women as inferior to men, and the Lakota myth that seems them as superior, in reality, Powers argues, the roles of male and female emerge as complementary. In fact, she claims, Oglala women have been better able to adapt to the dominant white culture and provide much of the stability and continuity of modern tribal life. This rich ethnographic portrait considers the complete context of Oglala life-religion, economics, medicine, politics, old age-and is enhanced by numerous modern and historical photographs.


"It is a happy event when a fine scholarly work is rendered accessible to the general reader, especially so when none of the complexity of the subject matter is sacrificed. Oglala Women is a long overdue revisionary ethnography of Native American culture."-Penny Skillman, San Francisco Chronicle Review

"Marla N. Powers's fine study introduced me to Oglala women 'portrayed from the perspectives of Indians, ' to women who did not pity themselves and want no pity from others. . . . A brave, thorough, and stimulating book."-Melody Graulich, Women's Review of Books

"Powers's new book is an intricate weaving . . . and her synthesis brings all of these pieces into a well-integrated and insightful whole, one which sheds new light on the importance of women and how they have adapted to the circumstances of the last century."-Elizabeth S. Grobsmith, Nebraska History

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While the white man was calling the Indian woman a drudge, old He dog, at ninety-two, told me: "It is well to be good to women in the strength of our manhood because we must sit under their hands at both ends of our lives."

From the rear cover

Based on interviews and life histories collected over more than twenty-five years of study on the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota, Marla N. Powers conveys what it means to be an Oglala woman.

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About the author

Marla N. Powers is professor of anthropology at Seton Hall University. She is also a visiting research associate of the Institute for Research on Women and an associate member of the graduate faculty in anthropology at Rutgers University.

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