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| − | Moral of story: If you’re going to be a cougar, don’t go after your son in law! No, but really, this was a very interesting story and it had several important points about Sioux cultural ideas that we can learn about with a little more research, in addition to describing gender rules and familial obligations. First of all is the mother-in-law avoidance policy. I know the Navajo have such a rule of mother-in-law avoidance out of respect and honor to the mother of the wife, and head matriarch, but I was not familiar with Sioux mother-in-law avoidance and would be interesting to study further to see if this is similar or different to the Navajo policy and its purpose. The second idea is the creation of a mermaid figure of the woman / half fish creature. I am not sure what this means / represents within Sioux culture, but again I think this would be a very interesting research topic. As an Anthropology major, I would love to unpack this tale for its symbolic and cultural significance, but I think in general, this story has a lot to tell us about Sioux pastimes (swimming / swinging - for children only?), gender roles (birthing, nursing and preparing food), and family interaction (mother-in-law avoidance) that was thought important enough to be included in this story. –Elyse Lawrence | + | Moral of story: If you’re going to be a cougar, don’t go after your son-in-law! No, but really, this was a very interesting story and it had several important points about Sioux cultural ideas that we can learn about with a little more research, in addition to describing gender rules and familial obligations. First of all is the mother-in-law avoidance policy. I know the Navajo have such a rule of mother-in-law avoidance out of respect and honor to the mother of the wife, and head matriarch, but I was not familiar with Sioux mother-in-law avoidance and would be interesting to study further to see if this is similar or different to the Navajo policy and its purpose. The second idea is the creation of a mermaid figure of the woman / half fish creature. I am not sure what this means / represents within Sioux culture, but again I think this would be a very interesting research topic. As an Anthropology major, I would love to unpack this tale for its symbolic and cultural significance, but I think in general, this story has a lot to tell us about Sioux pastimes (swimming / swinging - for children only?), gender roles (birthing, nursing and preparing food), and family interaction (mother-in-law avoidance) that was thought important enough to be included in this story. –Elyse Lawrence |
