Artículos relacionados a A Stranger in Her Native Land: Alice Fletcher and the...

A Stranger in Her Native Land: Alice Fletcher and the American Indians - Tapa blanda

Libro 2 de 23: Women in the West

Mark, Joan T.

 
9780803281561: A Stranger in Her Native Land: Alice Fletcher and the American Indians
Tapa blanda
ISBN 10: 0803281560 ISBN 13: 9780803281561
Editorial: Bison Books, 1989

Sinopsis

Called "Her Majesty" because of her resemblance to Queen Victoria and known as "the measuring woman" among the Indians whose land allotments she administered, Alice Fletcher (1838-1923) commanded respect from both friend and foe. She was the foremost woman anthropologist in the United States in the nineteenth century and instrumental in the adoption of the policy of severalty that dominated Indian affairs in the 1880s. This is the full and intimate story of a woman who, as she grew in understanding of Indian ways, came to recognize that she was the one who was alien, a stranger in her native land.

Joan Mark recreates the long and active life of Alice Fletcher from diaries, correspondence, and other records, placing her achievements for the first time in a feminist perspective. Sustained by a sense of mission, Alice Fletcher challenged her society's definition of what women could be and do.

"Sinopsis" puede pertenecer a otra edición de este libro.

Acerca del autor

Joan Mark, associate in the history of anthropology; Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University; is the author of Four Anthropologists: An American Science in Its Early Years (1980) and coeditor, with Frederick F. Hoxie, of With the Nez Perces: Alice Fletcher in the Field, 1889-1892, by E. Jane Gay (1981, also a Bison Book).

"Sobre este título" puede pertenecer a otra edición de este libro.

Editorial
Bison Books
Año de publicación
1989
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0803281560
ISBN 13 
9780803281561
Encuadernación
Broché
Número de páginas
452
Contacto del fabricante
no disponible
Persona responsable
no disponible