Blood and Voice

Description:

Drawing on interviews with seventeen Navajo women practitioners and five apprentices, the author examines Navajo women's role as ceremonial practitioners, examining the gender differences dictated by the Navajo origin story, detailing how women came to be practitioners, and revealing their experiences and the strategies they use to negotiate being both woman and singer.

subjects: Indians of north america, southwest, new,  Healers,  Navajo Indians,  Medicine,  Navajo women,  Biography,  Indian women healers,  North American Indians,  Women,  Ceremonial Behavior,  Indigenous Health Services,  Spiritual Therapies,  Interview,  Ethnology