Kim Anderson. Life Stages and Native Women: Memory, Teaching, and Story Medicine
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Abstract
Kim Anderson. Life Stages and Native Women: Memory, Teaching, and Story Medicine. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2011. 210 pages. Notes Bibliography. Index. $27.95 sc. There are very real and pressing realities attached to critical conversations about Anishnabek cultural practices, ways of being, language, and movement politics. In Life Stages of Native Women: Memory, Teaching, and Story Medicine, Kim Anderson offers a rigorously researched text that takes these considerations seriously. Anderson writes in her introduction that her purpose is to dig up the medicines of the past, (3) although the main success of Life Stages is its decolonizing effect on the future. In her first chapter, she offers a historiographical discussion on oral history and the importance of the relationship between story and storyteller. Here, the scope and relevance of her conversation extends far beyond the bindings of the book, and the impressive skill of Anderson as a writer, historian, and storyteller shines brighter than it does in the short chapter that follows, which briefy explains her interview methodology and project participants. Chapters Three to Six delineate and describe four central stages of life: from birth to walking; childhood and youth; the stage of adulthood; and the process of becoming grandmothers or Elders. Having interviewed other Native women and some men about these practices, experiences, and teachings, Anderson fleshes out the facts of the various lifestages with humorous stories and clever anecdotes. In her conclusion, Anderson does not flinch when addressing the realities of ongoing colonial concerns in Native communities; nonetheless, Life Stages ends with an empowered affirmation of personal optimism that is compelling and convincing--particularly given the wider movement into which one might place Anderson's work. Life Stages needs to be read as part of a wider anti-colonial project that views gender justice as the platform for political resistance and resurgence in First Nations communities. It is important to remember that this struggle is ongoing, and that sex discrimination persists in the policies of Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada (see http://www.lynngehl.com). The Canadian government clearly needs some guidance on how to make gender equality a reality for all of its citizens, and Life Stages proves useful as a teaching tool in this respect: in sketching out what a non-colonized society looks like, Anderson helps readers to formulate and conceive of an ontological alternative to the Canadian society in which we currently live. Life Stages can also be read, therefore, as a fitting follow-up to Anderson's previous publication, A Recognition of Being: Reconstructing Native Womanhood. …
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Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.017 | 0.003 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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