Weaving Women's Lives: Three Generations in a Navajo Family

by Louise Lamphere, Eva Price (Contribution by), Cadman Carole (Contribution by), Valerie Darwin (Contribution by)

Overview

Well-known anthropologist Lamphere highlights the voices of three generations of Navajo women who are weaving their traditional beliefs with modern American culture to create a new blueprint for their lives and the next generations.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780826342782
Publisher:	University of New Mexico Press
Publication date:	11/16/2007
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	344
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.74(d)

About the Author

Louise Lamphere has been a Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the University of New Mexico since 1986. She is also former president of the American Anthropological Association.

Eva Price is a member of the Navajo Nation and lives in northwest New Mexico.

Carole Cadman is a member of the Navajo Nation and lives in northwest New Mexico.

Valerie Darwin is a member of the Navajo Nation and lives in northwest New Mexico.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations     ix
Acknowledgments     xi
Weaving Women's Lives     1
The Main Stalk: Placing the Mountain Recess People on the Landscape     20
"I Used To Herd Sheep All Around Here": Eva's Childhood, Sheep Herding, and the Trauma of Stock Reduction     45
"This Is Your Land": Eva's Father, His Teachings, and Coming of Age     70
After the War: Things Fall Apart     96
Eva's Conversion: Regaining a Place of Blessing     127
Carole's Adolescence and Motherhood     160
"It Was Really My Grandmother Who Raised Me": Valerie's Childhood     189
Valerie's High School     217
Valerie's College Years     228
Epilogue: 2006     259
Notes     275
References     304
Navajo Pronunciation Key     308
Index     309