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Ashcraft-Eason, Lillian

Women and indigenous religions/ Lillian Ashcraft-Eason, Cheryl A Kirk-Duggan, Sylvia Marcos - California : Praeger, c2010. - 256p. ; 23cm.

Part I. WOMEN, FAMILY, AND ENVIRONMENT
1. Ngarrindjeri Women's Stories; Kungun and Yunnan
Diane Bell
2. Feminine Rituality and the Spirit of the Water in Peru
Frederique Apffel-Marglin
Part II. SOCIOECONOMICS, POLITICS, AND AUTHORITY
3. Indigenous Spirituality, Gender, and the Politics
of Justice: Voices from the First Summit of Indigenous
Women of the Americas
Sylvia Marcos
4. Authority and Ritual in the Caves of Tepoztlan, Mexico:
Women Priestesses in Popular Religion
Ana Maria Salazar Peraltat
Part III. BODY, MIND, AND SPIRIT
5. Dressing up the Spirits: Costumes, Cross-Dressing, and
Incarnation in Korea and Vietnam
Laurel Kendall and Hien Thi Nguyen
6. Women and Sacred Medicines among the Khasis
in the Highlands of Northeast India
Darilyn Syiem
7. The Not-So-Subtle Body in Dais' Birth Imagery
Janet Chawla
Part IV. SEXUALITT, POWER, AND VULNERABILITY
8. Ritual Gendered Relationships: Kinship, Marriage, Mastery,
and Machi Modes of Person hood
Ana Mariella Bacigalii'po
9. Sexuality and Ritual: Indigenous Women Recreating Their
Identities in Contemporary Mexico
Nuvia Balderrama Vara
Part V. WOMEN, WORLD VIEW, AND RELIGIOUS PRACTICE
10. Drawing the Connections: Mayan Women s Quest
for a Gendered Spirituality
Moma Macleod
11. Decolonizing our Spirits: Cultural Knowledge and
Indigenous Healing
Benee Linklater

ISBN: 9780275991579 (hc : alk. paper)

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Religion.

Dewey Class. No.: 200.82091724 / MAR/W