"Their works do follow them" : Tlingit women and Presbyterian missions
Using an ethnohistorical method which combines archival material with ethnographic material collected mostly by anthropologists, this thesis provides a history of Tlingit women's interaction with the Presbyterian missions. The Presbyterians, who began their work among the Tlingit of southeaster...
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ftunivbritcolcir:oai:circle.library.ubc.ca:2429/5975 2023-05-15T18:33:07+02:00 "Their works do follow them" : Tlingit women and Presbyterian missions Parry, Alison Ruth 1997 3428772 bytes application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/2429/5975 eng eng For non-commercial purposes only, such as research, private study and education. Additional conditions apply, see Terms of Use https://open.library.ubc.ca/terms_of_use. Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. - Missions Tlingit women Tlingit Indians - Social life and customs Missions - Alaska Text Thesis/Dissertation 1997 ftunivbritcolcir 2019-10-15T17:46:03Z Using an ethnohistorical method which combines archival material with ethnographic material collected mostly by anthropologists, this thesis provides a history of Tlingit women's interaction with the Presbyterian missions. The Presbyterians, who began their work among the Tlingit of southeastern Alaska in the 1870s, were particularly concerned with the introduction of "appropriate" gender roles. Although participating in the roles and activities defined by the Presbyterians as "women's work", Tlingit women incorporated Presbyterian forms of practice into their own cultural frames of reference. The end result, unintended by the missionaries, was that Tlingit women were provided with a new power base. Arts, Faculty of Anthropology, Department of Graduate Thesis tlingit Alaska University of British Columbia: cIRcle - UBC's Information Repository |
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Using an ethnohistorical method which combines archival material with ethnographic material collected mostly by anthropologists, this thesis provides a history of Tlingit women's interaction with the Presbyterian missions. The Presbyterians, who began their work among the Tlingit of southeastern Alaska in the 1870s, were particularly concerned with the introduction of "appropriate" gender roles. Although participating in the roles and activities defined by the Presbyterians as "women's work", Tlingit women incorporated Presbyterian forms of practice into their own cultural frames of reference. The end result, unintended by the missionaries, was that Tlingit women were provided with a new power base. Arts, Faculty of Anthropology, Department of Graduate |
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