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The Kutenai female berdache: Courier, guide, prophetess, and warrior
Ethnohistory • 12 (3) • Published In 1965 • Pages: 193-236
By: Schaeffer, Claude E..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article focuses on the Kutenai "man-woman" commonly called a berdache. From the accounts of several travelers and traders the author reconstructs the life history of a transvestite who gained special notoriety during her lifetime as a courier, guide, prophetess and warrior.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Life history materials
- Revelation and divination
- Homosexuality
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Kutenai
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2018
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Plains and Plateau
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Ian Skoggard; 2017
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1935-1965
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1808-1837
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Oregon, Washington, Idaho and northwestern Montana, United States; southeastern British Columbia, Canada
- NotesAdditional notes
- Claude E. Schaeffer
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-236)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 57043343
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Kootenai Indians