Status Updates From The Zuni Man-Woman

"The alternative view challenges many comfortable assumptions: that there are neither primitive nor civilized, inferior nor superior societies -only different ones. This view requires learning to think in "plurals" -imagining the multiple histories and cultural stories of human societies as parallel."

American of colonial heritage awakens to multiculturalism most rest of the world grow up taking for granted?

"What has Western civilization lost by its apparent lack of a counterpart to the [lhamana]--by, indeed, bending every social institution to the task of stigmatizing gender mediation?...This raises the question whether men and women today can ever achieve mutuality and wholeness as long as men who manifest qualities considered feminine, and women who do the same...are seen as deviants to be...stigmatized..."

This book is very interesting and explains a more wholistic view of genders than is socially accepted. The informative discussion on Zuni culture and tradition is also interesting.