Title Life among the Indians : first fieldwork among the Sioux and Omahas / Alice C. Fletcher, edited and with an introduction by Joanna C. Scherer and Raymond J. DeMallie

Published Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2013]

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Description 1 online resource (418 pages) Series Studies in the anthropology of North American Indians Studies in the anthropology of North American Indians. Contents Camping with the Sioux -- The Omahas at home Summary Alice C. Fletcher (1838-1923), one of the few women who became anthropologists in the United States during the nineteenth century, was a pioneer in the practice of participant-observation ethnography. She focused her studies over many years among the Native tribes in Nebraska and South Dakota. This book, an autobiographical memoir written in 1886-87, about her first fieldwork among the Sioux and the Omahas during 1881-82, remained unpublished in Fletcher's archives at the Smithsonian Institution for more than one hundred years. In it Fletcher depicts the humor and hardships of her field experiences as a middle-aged woman undertaking anthropological fieldwork alone, while showing genuine respect and compassion for Native ways and beliefs that was far ahead of her time. What emerges is 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. Fletcher's account of her early fieldwork is available here for the first time, accompanied by an essay by the editors that sheds light on Fletcher's place in the development of anthropology and the role of women in the discipline. -- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 381-396) and index Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBL, viewed on February 12, 2015) Subject Fletcher, Alice C. (Alice Cunningham), 1838-1923 SUBJECT Fletcher, Alice C. (Alice Cunningham), 1838-1923 Fletcher, Alice C. (Alice Cunningham), 1838-1923 fast Subject Women anthropologists -- Great Plains -- Biography Dakota Indians -- Social life and customs Omaha Indians -- Social life and customs. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Social Scientists & Psychologists. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Regional Studies. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General. HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI) Dakota Indians -- Social life and customs Omaha Indians -- Social life and customs Women anthropologists Great Plains Genre/Form autobiographies (literary works) Autobiographies Biographies Autobiographies. Biographies. Autobiographies. Biographies. Form Electronic book ISBN 9781461948803 1461948800 9780803249578 0803249578

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