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This work focuses on the life of We'wha (1849-96), the Zuni who was perhaps the most famous berdache (an individual who combined the work and traits of both men and women) in American Indian history. Through We'wha's exceptional life, the author creates a vivid picture of an alternati...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Roscoe, Will (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, [1991]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Zuni Indians > Social life and customs.
Zuni Indians > Sexual behavior.
Sex role.
Zuni (volk)
Seksuele gebruiken.
Indians of North America > Social life and customs.
Zuñi (Indiens) > Moeurs et coutumes.
Zuni (Indiens) > Rôle selon le sexe.
Geschlechterrolle
Gesellschaft
Prostitution
Mann.
Zuni (Volk)
Sex role
Zuni Indians > Sexual behavior
Zuni Indians > Social life and customs
Table of Contents:
  • A death that caused universal regret
  • The middle place
  • We'wha, the celebrated Lhamana
  • Among the most enlightened society
  • The country was full of soldiers
  • The rites of gender
  • Two-fold one-kind
  • They left this great sin
  • The berdache tradition
  • The beginning
  • Correspondences of the Zuni origin myth
  • Kan'a kwe synonymy.