Blood and Voice
Subtitle: Navajo Women Ceremonial Practitioners
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: July 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 186
ISBN-13: 9780816523016
Subjects: Navajo Indians; Sociology; Indian women healers; Ethnic Studies - Native American Studies; Women's Studies - General; Body, Mind & Spirit; New Age; Navajo women; Medicine; Anthropology - Cultural; Ethnic Studies - Native American Studies - Tribes; Southwest, New; Healing - General; Biography
Description: Drawing on interviews with seventeen Navajo women practitioners and five apprentices, the author examines Navajo women's role as ceremonial practitioners, examining the gender differences dictated by the Navajo origin story, detailing how women came to be practitioners, and revealing their experiences and the strategies they use to negotiate being both woman and singer.