American Indian grandmothers
traditions and transitions
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Schweizer blends documentary history, oral history, and ethnographic observation to shed light on the world of grandmothering in Native America. The cultural and emotional resources of their ethnic traditions help grandmothers grapple with the social, economic, cultural and political challenges they face in the late twentieth century. Indian grandmothers are almost universally occupied with child care and child rearing at some time, but such variables as lineal descent, clan membership, kinship patterns, individual behaviour, and cultural ideology change the definition, role, and status of a grandmother from tribe to tribe. The contributors explore grandmothering among Navajos, Puget Sound Salish, Tewas, Hopis, Otoe-Missourias, Choctaws, and Sioux.
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