Louise Lamphere met Eva Price in 1965 in Sheep Springs, New Mexico,
on the eastern side of the Navajo Reservation, while Lamphere was
doing fieldwork for her dissertation in social anthropology at
Harvard University. Over the next forty years, Lamphere developed a
strong friendship with Price that expanded to include Eva's
daughter, Carole Cadman, and granddaughter, Valerie Darwin.
When Price expressed her desire to pass along her teachings
about Navajo life to her children and grandchildren, Lamphere saw
an opportunity to pursue her own interest in writing a book on
Navajo women that would encompass their transformative experiences
through the twentieth century. Lamphere collaborated with Price,
Cadman, and Darwin to create a narrative that highlights the voices
of three generations of Navajo women, placing them within the
context of the larger American society rather than presenting the
Navajo as an isolated indigenous culture. Emphasizing the vibrancy
and strength of Navajo culture, "Weaving Women's Lives" illustrates
the process of incorporating new practices and ideas while
retaining distinctive Navajo beliefs, values, and orientations. As
individual threads are woven to create a unique pattern, so have
Navajo women pulled together elements of Navajo and Anglo culture
to create a new blueprint for their lives.
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