The Navaho
By: [by] Clyde Kluckhohn and Dorothea Leighton.
Contributors: Leighton, Dorothea (Cross) 1908- joint author.
Edition: Rev. ed., by Lucy H. Wales and Richard Kluckhohn. Published in cooperation with the American Museum of Natural History.
Series: Natural history library ;
Publisher: Natural History Library
Published: 1962
Place of publication: Garden City, N.Y
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 355
Subjects: Navajo Indians.
Notes: Includes bibliography.
Table of contents: title: Before the dawn of history -- The Spanish-Mexican period [1626-1846] -- The American period [1846- ] -- 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 Navajo economy. Soil conservation and stock improvement, tribal enterprises, other economic services -- Distribution of goods. The trading post -- The future of Navaho economy -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 bites do for the group -- The gain and cost of witchcraft. Anxiety, aggression, social control -- 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 -- Navaho “ethics” -- Navaho “values” -- Some premises of Navaho life and thought -- Seeing things the Navaho way.