Using an ethnohistorical method which combines archival material with ethnographic
material collected mostly by anthropologists, this thesis provides a history of Tlingit women's
interaction with the Presbyterian missions. The Presbyterians, who began their work among
the Tlingit of southeastern Alaska in the 1870s, were particularly concerned with the
introduction of "appropriate" gender roles. Although participating in the roles and activities
defined by the Presbyterians as "women's work", Tlingit women incorporated Presbyterian
forms of practice into their own cultural frames of reference. The end result, unintended by the
missionaries, was that Tlingit women were provided with a new power base.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:BVAU.2429/5975 |
| Date | 05 1900 |
| Creators | Parry, Alison Ruth |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Relation | UBC Retrospective Theses Digitization Project [http://www.library.ubc.ca/archives/retro_theses/] |
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