Jacobs, Sue-Ellen; Thomas, Wesley; Lang, Sabine

Two-Spirit People : Native American Gender Identity, Sexuality, and Spirituality

Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1(20) Sue-Ellen Jacobs Wesley Thomas Sabine Lang Part 1: Rebuilding Anthropological Narratives Concerning Two-Spirit People Is the ``North American Berdache'' Merely a Phantom in the Imagination of Western Social Scientists? 21(24) Sue-Ellen Jacobs The Northern Athapaskan ``Berdache'' Reconsidered: On Reading More Than There Is in the Ethnographic Record 45(24) Jean-Guy A. Goulet Cross-Dressing and Shamanism among Selected Western North American Tribes 69(31) Arnold R. Pilling Various Kinds of Two-Spirit People: Gender Variance and Homosexuality in Native American Communities 100(19) Sabine Lang Traditions of Gender Diversity and Sexualities: A Female-to-Male Transgendered Perspective 119(26) Jason Cromwell Part 2: Questions of Terminology Changing Native American Roles in an Urban Context and Changing Native American Sex Roles in an Urban Context 145(11) Beatrice Medicine Navajo Cultural Constructions of Gender and Sexuality 156(18) Wesley Thomas A Navajo Worldview and Nadleehi: Implications for Western Categories 174(18) Carolyn Epple M. Dragonfly: Two-Spirit and the Tafoya Principle of Uncertainty 192(11) Terry Tafoya Part 3: Two-Spirit as a Lived Experience: Life Stories I Am a Lakota Womyn 203(7) Beverly Little Thunder (Standing Rock Lakota) Traditional Influences on a Contemporary Gay-Identified Sisseton Dakota 210(7) Michael Red Earth A Postcolonial Colonial Perspective on Western [Mis] Conceptions of the Cosmos and the Restoration of Indigenous Taxonomies 217(11) Anguksuar Navajo Warrior Women: An Ancient Tradition in a Modern World Carrie House (Navajo/Oneida) 223(5) I Ask You to Listen to Who I Am 228(8) Doyle V. Robertson A ``Berdache'' by Any Other Name ... Is a Brother, Friend, Lover, Spouse: Reflections on a Mescalero Apache Singer of Ceremonies 236(19) Claire R. Farrer Part 4: Comments, Reflections, and Generalizations Gender Statuses, Gender Features, and Gender/Sex Categories: New Perspectives on an Old Paradigm 255(10) Lee M. Kochems Sue-Ellen Jacobs On the Incommensurality of Gender Categories 265(7) Alice B. Kehoe You Anthropologists Make Sure You Get Your Words Right 272(4) Clyde M. Hall The Dilemmas of Desire: From ``Berdache'' to Two-Spirit 276(8) Gilbert Herdt Native American Genders and Sexualities: Beyond Anthropological Models and Misrepresentations 284(13) Evelyn Blackwood Part 5: Dealing with Homophobia Dealing with Homophobia in Everyday Life Introduction 297(22) Claire R. Farrer Contributors 319(4) Index 323