'It's not about place, it's about what's inside': American Indian women negotiating cultural connectedness and identity in urban spaces

Autor:	Nancy M. Lucero
Rok vydání:	2014
Předmět:	Sociology and Political Science Social connectedness Cultural identity media_common.quotation_subject Identity (social science) Gender studies Development Metropolitan area Education Negotiation Narrative Residence Sociology Location Social psychology media_common
Zdroj:	Women's Studies International Forum. 42:9-18
ISSN:	0277-5395
DOI:	10.1016/j.wsif.2013.10.012
Popis:	Synopsis This descriptive phenomenological study sought to uncover how urban American Indian women from families with multigenerational urban residence develop and maintain cultural identity and cultural connectedness while living in a large metropolitan area. Fourteen women from five different tribes shared their understandings of the elements that constitute American Indian identity and cultural connectedness and how these phenomena are developed by urban-based Natives. The phenomenological structures of urban American Indian women's cultural identity and connectedness emerging from participant narratives indicated that cultural identity and cultural connectedness were distinct constructs. The women conceptualized cultural identity as a stable understanding of self as an American Indian that is not dependent upon geographical location and unaffected by cognitive and behavioral adaptations required by the urban environment. Cultural connectedness was seen to be created by three interacting elements: relatedness to, and social interactions with, other Native people; active cultural involvement; and cultural knowledge.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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