Cherokee "Two Spirits": Gender, Ritual, and Spirituality in the Native South

Since the sixteenth century, European and Euroamerican observers have puzzled over the identity, roles, and sexuality of the berdache, or what scholars now refer to as two-spirit people, in Native American societies in the Southeast. Over the past generation gender theorists and lesbian, gay, bisexu...

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Veröffentlicht in:Early American Studies. - University of Pennsylvania Press. - 12(2014), 3, Seite 626-651
1. Verfasser: SMITHERS, GREGORY D. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Online-Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2014
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:Early American Studies
Schlagworte:Behavioral sciences Social sciences
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