Speakers By Name|
Jean Black, Ph.D.
As a specialist in North American Indian studies, Jean Black has conducted field research with the Algonquin Indians of western Quebec every summer since 1964.
Her research has focused on cultural ecology, cultural and political roles of women, political factionalism, kinship, and ethnohistory.
Courses she has taught at UNC-Chapel Hil linclude general anthropology, North American Indians, culture change, kinship and social organization, and folk cultures. Black also has been a visiting professor for the past three years in North Carolina State University's departments of sociology and anthropology.
· Contemporary Native People of North Carolina and Eastern North America
· Mothers, Daughters, Sisters, Wives: Native American Women in Eastern North America