Life Among the Indians: First Fieldwork Among the Sioux and Omahas

by Alice C. Fletcher

Alice C. Fletcher (1838-1923), one of the few women who became anthropologists in the United States during the nineteenth century, was a pioneer in the practice of participant-observation ethnography. She focused her studies over many years among the Native tribes in Nebraska and South Dakota. Life among the Indians , Fletcher's popularized autobiographical memoir written in 1886-87 about her first fieldwork among the Sioux and the Omahas during 1881-82,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803241151
• ISBN13: 9780803241152
• Release Date: December 2013
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.5" x 9.1"