Weaving Women’s Lives: Three Generations in a Navajo Family

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Louise Lamphere met Eva Price in 1965 in Sheep Springs, New Mexico, at the eastern side of the Navajo Reservation, whilst Lamphere was once doing fieldwork for her dissertation in social anthropology at Harvard University. Over the following forty years, Lamphere developed a strong friendship with Price that expanded to incorporate Eva’s daughter, Carole Cadman, and granddaughter, Valerie Darwin.

When Price expressed her desire to pass along her teachings about Navajo life to her children and grandchildren, Lamphere saw a chance to pursue her own interest in writing a book on Navajo women that would encompass their transformative experiences during the twentieth century. Lamphere collaborated with Price, Cadman, and Darwin to create a narrative that highlights the voices of three generations of Navajo women, placing them throughout the context of the larger American society fairly than presenting the Navajo as an isolated indigenous culture. Emphasizing the vibrancy and strength of Navajo culture, Weaving Women’s Lives illustrates the method of incorporating new practices and ideas whilst retaining distinctive Navajo beliefs, values, and orientations. As individual threads are woven to create a unique pattern, so have Navajo women pulled together elements of Navajo and Anglo culture to create a new blueprint for their lives.

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