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the Delaware as women: a symbolic solution
Author(s) -
MILLER JAY
Publication year - 1974
Publication title -
american ethnologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.875
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1548-1425
pISSN - 0094-0496
DOI - 10.1525/ae.1974.1.3.02a00070
Subject(s) - conquest , politics , history , law , sociology , political science , genealogy , ancient history
Previously several authors have discussed the circumstances whereby the entire Delaware nation became known as women and the Iroquois confederacy known as men. These authors have debated whether these designations were the result of military conquest or political agreement. My own view is that the Delaware became women and the Iroquois men as the result of what is known in structural analysis as a transformation. Three other examples of man/woman transformations are also suggested for Native America.