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Menstruation and the power of Yurok womenarticle 1982 • Buckley, Thomas C. T.
Yurok • North America > Northwest Coast and California
Consideration of Yurok Indian women's attitudes towards menstruation and of the ritual observances surrounding it enhance our understanding of the position of women in Yurok society and of the aboriginal role of menstruation in the temporal structuri...