The Navaho
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The Navaho
（A Harvard paperback）
Harvard University Press, c1974
Rev. ed. / with a foreword by Lucy Wales Kluckhohn
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Bibliography: p. 333-340
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
What are the Navaho today? How do they live together and with other races? What is their philosophy of life? Both the general reader and the student will look to this authoritative study for the answers to such questions. The authors review Navaho history from archaeological times to the present, and then present Navaho life today. They show the people's problems in coping with their physical environment; their social life among their own people; their contacts with whites and other Indians and especially with the Government; their economy; their religious beliefs and practices; their language and the problems this raises in their education and their relationships to whites; and their explicit and implicit philosophy.
This book presents not only a study of Navaho life, however: it is an impartial discussion of an interesting experiment in Government administration of a dependent people, a discussion which is significant for contemporary problems of a wider scope; colonial questions; the whole issue of the contact of different races and peoples. It will appeal to every one interested in the Indians, in the Southwest, in anthropology, in sociology, and to many general readers.
This work forms the most thoroughgoing study ever made of the Navaho Indians, and perhaps of any Indian group. The book was written as a part of the Indian Education Research Project undertaken jointly by the Committee on Human Development of the University of Chicago and the United States Office of Indian Affairs. The cooperation of a psychiatrist and anthropologist both in the research for, and in the writing of, this study is noteworthy-as is the fusion of methods and points of view derived from medicine, psychology, and anthropology. Probably no anthropological study has ever been based upon so many years of field work by so many different persons.
Table of Contents
Foreword Preface: Indian Education Research Project Introduction: "The People" and this Study 1. THE PAST OF THE PEOPLE Before the Dawn of History The Spanish-Mexican Period [1626-1846] The American Period [1846- ] 2. LAND AND LIVELIHOOD The Land is Crowded Sources of Navaho Livelihood Livestock, Agriculture, Wild Plants and Animals, Lumber and Minerals, Arts and Crafts, Wage Work, Relief, Average Income. Navaho Technology Weaving and Silver Work, Agriculture, Animal Husbandry, Hunting, Transportation. Regional Variations in Economy and Technology The Role of the Government in the Navaho Economy Soil Conservation and Stock Improvement, Tribal Enterprises, Other Economic Services. Distribution of the Goods The Trading Post. The Future of the Navaho Economy 3. LIVING TOGETHER What the People Look Like Physique, Clothing. The World of the Hogans "A Room of One's Own," Sleeping and Eating, Cleanliness, Division of Labor, Recreation, Navaho Humor. Personal Relations in the World of the Hogans The Biological Family, The Extended Family, Dealing with Kinfolk, Ownership and Inheritance. Relatives Beyond the Hogan Group The "Outfit," The Clan, Linked Clans. The Wider Circle of Personal Relations Names and Naming, The "Local Group" or "Community," Leadership and Authority, The People as a Tribe. 4. THE PEOPLE AND THE WORLD AROUND THEM Other Indians Divisions Among Whites as seen by the People Traders to the People The Word of an Alien God The People and the Government: The Navajo Agency The Administrative Setup, Education for Navahos, Medical Services and Navaho Health, Law and Order. The People Participate in Government The Navajo Council, Tribal Courts. The Government and the People: Present Problems Navahos Working in the White World Between Two Worlds Navaho Attitudes Toward Whites 5. THE SUPERNATURAL: POWER AND DANGER Beings and Powers Ghosts Witches The Navaho Theory of Disease Folk Tales and Myths Folk Tales, Origin Myth, Rite Myths, Myths and Tales in Daily Life, The Family in Myth and Folklore. 6. THE SUPERNATURAL: THINGS TO DO AND NOT TO DO Thou Shalt Not Thou Shalt Rites of Passage Birth, Initiation. Finding Things Out The Way of Good Hope Drypaintings Navaho Ceremonial Music Curing Chants Other Rites 7. THE MEANING OF THE SUPERNATURAL Economic and Social Aspects of Ceremonials The Cost in Time, The Cost in Money, Cooperation and Reciprocity, Social Functions: the "Squaw Dance" as an Example. What Myths and Rites Do For The Individual Prestige and Personal Expression, Curing, Security. What Myths and Rites Do For The Group The Gain and Cost of Witchcraft Anxiety, Aggression, Social Control. 8. THE TONGUE OF THE PEOPLE Navaho Sounds Navaho Words A Quick Glance at Navaho Grammar Nonverbal Parts of Speech, Navaho Verbs. By Their Speech Shall Ye Know Them Why Bother About the Language? Establishing Good Relations, Dealing with Interpreters, Getting the Navaho Viewpoint. 9. THE NAVAHO WAY OF LIFE Navaho "Ethics" Navaho "Values" Some Premises of Navaho Life and Thought Seeing Things the Navaho Way Acknowledgements Notes and References Bibliography Index
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