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Culture summaryessay 2000 • Schlegel, Alice
Hopi • North America > Southwest and Basin
This is a culture summary of the Hopi....Hopi family structure and the experience of widowhoodessay 1988 • Schlegel, Alice
Hopi • North America > Southwest and Basin
This article discusses widowhood in Hopi society as it existed from the time of the first major penetration of the outside world in the 1860s to World War II. The author describes the traditional pattern and how it began to change …"as the Hopi began...African political models in the American Southwestarticle 1992 • Schlegel, Alice
Hopi • North America > Southwest and Basin
According to Schlegel "most ethnological and archeological analyses of Pueblo social organization derive its particular character from the need to adopt to an arid environment. This article challenges an ecological interprettion (without dismissing e...The adolescent socialization of the Hopi girlarticle 1973 • Schlegel, Alice
Hopi • North America > Southwest and Basin
This is a study of the adolescent socialization process of the Hopi girl. Schlegel points out that this is a period of crisis for the girl: a period of strained relations with her mother, moodiness and unpredictability and fear that she will be rejec...Sexual antagonism among the sexually egalitarian Hopiarticle 1979 • Schlegel, Alice
Hopi • North America > Southwest and Basin
This paper deals with sexual antagonism in a sexually egalitarian society, the Hopi, but the sexual antagonism it deals with is not general, as between the sexes, but more specific, inherent in two kinds of male-female dyadic relationships -- husband...Male and female in Hopi thought and actionessay 1977 • Schlegel, Alice
Hopi • North America > Southwest and Basin
This paper examines some of the assumptions that have been made regarding female reproduction, separation of the sexes, and the position of women in Hopi society (p. 245). The document discusses "…the separation of activity between the domestic organ...Fathers, daughters, and kachina dollsarticle 1989 • Schlegel, Alice
Hopi • North America > Southwest and Basin
In this study Schlegel explores the symbolic significance of the gift of a kachina doll from "father" to daughter in Hopi society. The term "father" as used here, refers not only to biological parenthood, but also as a reference to clan brothers of t...