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Making home work : domesticity and Native American assimilation in the American West, 1860-1919 / Jane E. Simonsen

Catalog Data

Author:
Simonsen, Jane E  Search this
Physical description:
xii, 266 p. : ill. ; 25 cm
Type:
Cross-cultural studies
Place:
West (U.S.)
Date:
2006
C2006
19th century
20th century
Contents:
Introduction: Squaring the circle -- Prairie heirs and heiresses : Native American history and the future of the West in Caroline Soule's The pet of the settlement -- The house divided : class and race in the married woman's home -- Object lessons : domesticity on display in Native American assimilation -- The cook, the photographer, and her majesty, the allotting agent : unsettling domesticity in E. Jane Gay's Choup-nit-ki -- A model of its kind : Anna Dawson Wilde's home in the field -- Border designs : domestic production and cultural survival -- Postscript: The map and the territory
Topic:
Arts and society--History  Search this
Home economics  Search this
Social values  Search this
Women--Social conditions  Search this
Indian women--Cultural assimilation  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_794945