“Highly recommended, both as a critically presented state-of-the-art discussion and as an account of how one’s personal/political history informs the process of scientific inquiry.”âChoice
This classic anthropological study debunks the many myths behind the idea of “natural” male superiority. Drawing on extensive historical and cross-cultural research, Eleanor Burke Leacock shows that claims of male superiority are based on carefully constructed myths with no factual historical basis. She also documents numerous historical examples of egalitarian gender relations.
Eleanor Burke Leacock (1922–1987) was well-known for her ethnographic work among primitive societies, and her research is still a formative influence among feminist anthropologists.

Myths of Male Dominance: Collected Articles on Women Cross-Culturally

Politics & Social Sciences

Leacock, Eleanor Burke

Social Sciences

Monthly Review+press

This classic anthropological study debunks the many myths behind the idea of "natural" male superiority. Drawing on extensive historical and cross-cultural research, Eleanor Burke Leacock shows that claims of male superiority are based on carefully constructed myths with no factual historical basis. She also documents numerous historical examples of egalitarian gender relations.

Myth of Male Dominance

This collection of essays by international scholars focuses on and clearly defines Indian cultural reintegration. The anthology concentrates on recent Indian history and the constantly emerging ways that Native Americans deal with, and adapt to, new circumstances. The essays show that the cliche "vanishing Americans" can no longer be applied; rather, Indians may more accurately be described as experiencing a cultural renaissance.

North American Indians in Historical Perspective

History

Americas

Waveland Pr Inc.

Strong (1899-1962) is best known for his archaeology of the Andes and for pioneering ethnohistory at Columbia University. Here his journal, diary, and photographs are compiled after his death to present his insights into native culture in eastern Canada when it was still largely unaffected by European influence. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Labrador Winter: The Ethnographic Journals of William Duncan Strong, 1927-1928

Smithsonian Inst. Pr.

“Highly recommended, both as a critically presented state-of-the-art discussion and as an account of how one’s personal/political history informs the process of scientific inquiry.”—Choice
This classic anthropological study debunks the many myths behind the idea of “natural” male superiority. Drawing on extensive historical and cross-cultural research, Eleanor Burke Leacock shows that claims of male superiority are based on carefully constructed myths with no factual historical basis. She also documents numerous historical examples of egalitarian gender relations.
Eleanor Burke Leacock (1922–1987) was well-known for her ethnographic work among primitive societies, and her research is still a formative influence among feminist anthropologists.

Haymarket Books

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Myths of Male Dominance: Collected Articles on Women Cross-Culturally

Myth of Male Dominance

North American Indians in Historical Perspective

Labrador Winter: The Ethnographic Journals of William Duncan Strong, 1927-1928

Myths of Male Dominance: Collected Articles on Women Cross-Culturally