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| Introduction |
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| Part 1: Rebuilding Anthropological Narratives Concerning Two-Spirit People |
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Is the ``North American Berdache'' Merely a Phantom in the Imagination of Western Social Scientists? |
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The Northern Athapaskan ``Berdache'' Reconsidered: On Reading More Than There Is in the Ethnographic Record |
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Cross-Dressing and Shamanism among Selected Western North American Tribes |
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69 | (31) |
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Various Kinds of Two-Spirit People: Gender Variance and Homosexuality in Native American Communities |
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Traditions of Gender Diversity and Sexualities: A Female-to-Male Transgendered Perspective |
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| Part 2: Questions of Terminology |
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Changing Native American Roles in an Urban Context and Changing Native American Sex Roles in an Urban Context |
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145 | (11) |
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Navajo Cultural Constructions of Gender and Sexuality |
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156 | (18) |
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A Navajo Worldview and Nadleehi: Implications for Western Categories |
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M. Dragonfly: Two-Spirit and the Tafoya Principle of Uncertainty |
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192 | (11) |
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| Part 3: Two-Spirit as a Lived Experience: Life Stories |
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Beverly Little Thunder (Standing Rock Lakota) |
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Traditional Influences on a Contemporary Gay-Identified Sisseton Dakota |
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210 | (7) |
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A Postcolonial Colonial Perspective on Western [Mis] Conceptions of the Cosmos and the Restoration of Indigenous Taxonomies |
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Navajo Warrior Women: An Ancient Tradition in a Modern World |
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Carrie House (Navajo/Oneida) |
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I Ask You to Listen to Who I Am |
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228 | (8) |
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A ``Berdache'' by Any Other Name ... Is a Brother, Friend, Lover, Spouse: Reflections on a Mescalero Apache Singer of Ceremonies |
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| Part 4: Comments, Reflections, and Generalizations |
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Gender Statuses, Gender Features, and Gender/Sex Categories: New Perspectives on an Old Paradigm |
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255 | (10) |
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On the Incommensurality of Gender Categories |
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You Anthropologists Make Sure You Get Your Words Right |
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272 | (4) |
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The Dilemmas of Desire: From ``Berdache'' to Two-Spirit |
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276 | (8) |
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Native American Genders and Sexualities: Beyond Anthropological Models and Misrepresentations |
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284 | (13) |
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| Part 5: Dealing with Homophobia |
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Dealing with Homophobia in Everyday Life Introduction |
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| Contributors |
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