Kristin Fitzgerald is interested in how Lakota congregants at St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church in Rapid City, South Dakota strategically (sometimes consciously, sometimes not) identify as Episcopalians, as urban Indians, and as 'traditional' Lakota people at various junctures, and how ritual and social practices function as important categories of expression that members variously use to address larger as well as internal social, political, ideological, historical, and economic concerns. Her preliminary fieldwork began in the summer of 2006, and she aims to complete her long-term ethnographic study by the spring semester of 2011. Drawing on the fields of ethnohistory, ritual and symbolic analysis, urban sociology and anthropology, she aims to complete the first ethnographic study of urban Christian American Indians.
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Kristin Fitzgerald, MA
Department of Sociology & Anthropology
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Creighton University
2500 California Plaza
Omaha, NE 67178
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