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Ceremony in miniature: Kiowa oral storytelling and narrative event.
(2001)
Everytime Kiowas tell stories they invoke a cultural and tribal framework their audience(s) can relate to in a meaningful way. Like any cultural group, Kiowas recontextualize ideas and themes from earlier contexts that ...
Power and personhood: Health care decision-making in a Plains Indian community.
(2001)
This study employs a critical-interpretive approach to investigate health-care decision-making and the practice of medical pluralism in a Plains Indian community. Data are from a four-year ethnographic experience, ...
Migrancy and changing structures: The experiences of South African women in the Eastern Cape.
(2001)
This study examines the breakdown in Xhosa-speaking cultural, economic, and political structures that have been transformed in response to colonialism and apartheid. Its primary purpose was to identify indicators that ...
Mississippian political culture: Contrasting historical trajectories in southeastern North America.
(2001)
Theories of cultural evolution have been called into question during the past few decades, recognizing that concepts such as "chiefdom" and "cultural adaptation" do not directly address changes in power relations or social ...