The Navaho
by Clyde Kluckhohn, Dorothea Leighton
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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 show more 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 thorough-going 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. show lessTags
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Somewhat dated. I was hoping for a little more on Navajo history, maybe even a little archaeolgy, but that was my misconception. This book is really a more modern history of the Navajo, especially from around the 1940s. It has quite a lot of info on early 20th century Navajo. There is some cultural info that one can transfer to earlier times without being anachronistic i would assume? Particularly good info on Navajo family and kinship ties, and Navajo religious ideas and sprituality. Still would only be of value to the researcher of early 20th century Native Americans or to someone who is already informed about traditional Navajo culture and history as well as more modern Navajo cultural problems.
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- Canonical title
- The Navaho
- Alternate titles
- The Navajo
- Dedication
- To Alfred Tozzer and John Collier.
- First words
- The Navahos form the largest Indian tribe in the United States.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)When we discover the premises we realize that the phrase "a common humanity" is full of meaning.
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- Languages
- English, French
- Media
- Paper
- ISBNs
- 5
- ASINs
- 20
