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Gender diversity - in the form of third and fourth gender roles - is one of the most common and least understood features of native North America. Such roles have been documented in over 150 tribes throughout the continent. Widely accepted, often considered holy, berdaches, as they have been termed, combine the work and social roles of men and women along with traits unique to their status.
In Changing Ones, Will Roscoe carefully reconstructs the place of these roles in traditional tribal cultures and traces their history up to the present. The result is a strikingly different view of native North America. Before the arrival of Europeans, marriages between berdaches and non-berdache members of the same sex were commonplace, and individuals sometimes changed their gender because of a dream.
Drawing on a series of case studies, Changing Ones goes on to explore the theoretical implications of multiple genders for the fields of anthropology, history, and gender studies, and concludes by offering some intriguing suggestions regarding the social origin of gender diversity and its role in human history in North America and elsewhere.
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Homosexuality, Indian gays, Lesbianism, Indians of North America, Sexual behavior, Two-spirit people, Berdaches, Sex role and Native Americans, Berdache, Gender identity, Native American gays, Fiction, general, Indians of north america, social life and customs, HomosexualitätPlaces
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Changing Ones: Third and Fourth Genders in Native North America
June 17, 2000, Palgrave Macmillan
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Changing ones: third and fourth genders in Native North America
1998, Macmillan Press
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0333731298 9780333731291
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Changing ones: third and fourth genders in Native North America
1998, St. Martin's Press
in English
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0312175396 9780312175399
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"In 1833, Edwin T. Denig came up the Missouri River to the country of the Crow Indians in Montana to spend the next twenty-three years of his life as a trader for the American Fur Company."
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