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03122aam a2200421 i 4500 001 5C48736E8E3311E3B5D817AEDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20140205010036 008 130605s2013 nbuab b 001 0aeng 010 $a 2013020503 020 $a 0803241151 (hardback : alk. paper) 020 $a 9780803241152 (hardback : alk. paper) 035 $a (OCoLC)839395981 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d BTCTA $d BDX $d OCLCO $d UKMGB $d YDXCP $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a np----- 050 00 $a GN21.F54 $b A3 2013 082 00 $a B $a B $2 23 084 $a HIS036090 $a HIS036090 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a Fletcher, Alice C. $q (Alice Cunningham), $d 1838-1923. 245 10 $a Life among the Indians : $b first fieldwork among the Sioux and Omahas / $c Alice C. Fletcher, edited and with an introduction by Joanna C. Scherer and Raymond J. DeMallie. 260 $a Lincoln : $b University of Nebraska Press, $c [2013] 300 $a 418 pages : $b illustrations, map ; $c 24 cm. 490 0 $a Studies in the anthropology of North American Indians 520 $a "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. Life among the Indians, Fletcher's popularized 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memoir written in 1886-87 about her first fieldwork among the Sioux and the Omahas during 1881-82, remained unpublished in Fletcher's archives at the Smithsonian Institution for more than one hundred years.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. "-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 381-396) and index. 600 10 $a Fletcher, Alice C. $q (Alice Cunningham), $d 1838-1923. 650 0 $a Women anthropologists $z Great Plains $v Biography. 650 0 $a Dakota Indians $x Social life and customs. 650 0 $a Omaha Indians $x Social life and customs. 650 7 $a SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Native American Studies. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI). $2 bisacsh 941 $a 4 952 $l PLAX964 $d 20240724071844.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231020014612.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20190502024557.0 952 $l OIAX792 $d 20160331011023.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=5C48736E8E3311E3B5D817AEDAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search