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The Navaho Clyde Kluckhohn

The Navaho By Clyde Kluckhohn

The Navaho by Clyde Kluckhohn

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The authors review Navaho history from archaeological times to the present, and then present Navaho life today. 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.

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The Navaho: Revised Edition by Clyde Kluckhohn

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.

The Navaho Reviews

This collaboration between an anthropologist and a medico-psychiatrist has been a fortunate one. Professor Kluckhohn and Dr. Leighton have tried, as social scientists, to show the Navaho points of view, and then show how the Army, the missionary, the trader, the Indian Bureau, the white rancher or farmer surrounded the Navaho with new standards of ethical judgment and social procedure. The result was to frustrate much in the Navaho that had produced a sense of security and well-being... This book teaches the salutary lesson that majority culture patterns are not self-justifying... If we have achieved a greater mastery over the forces of nature than the Navahos, perhaps they have received more by experiencing the beauty and emotional values in nature than we. -- Anne Richards * New York Times *
This book is one of a series of tribal monographs published on behalf of an Indian Education Research Project sponsored by the University of Chicago and the U.S. Office of Indian Affairs... The deep concern of the authors for the welfare of the Navajos is shown by it and other books which they have written, and it is a useful, though necessarily limited, study of culture contact, based on intimate knowledge... The production of the book is up to high standard which we expect of the Harvard University Press, and it is illustrated by some admirable photographs. -- G. H. S. Bushnell * Nature *
This book is one of the most successful efforts so far to communicate the results of the anthropological study of one people to another people...the book is not addressed to the specialist in the study of culture... Without resort to dramatization or oversimplification, [it] should communicate to many kinds of American readers the goals and viewpoints of the Navahos. * Annals of the American Academy *
The book is so sympathetic and unbiased that anyone can approximately realize the problems that have harassed these people for years, and that have stood between them and those who surround them, the predatory whites as well as those who honestly attempt to reorganize their economic system without understanding its workability. -- Mabel Dodge Luhan * Chicago Sun *
The Navaho is one of a projected series of studies of Indian tribes designed to get at the real grassroots needs of improving the relationship of Indian and white, in both government and private spheres of activity... After a compact resume of the tribe's history, both known and surmised from archaeology and mythology, the material background of the people is discussed in a chapter called 'Land and Livelihood.' Here are demographies, economics, technology, arts and crafts and their relation to the Americans through the government and the trader... Then comes the life of the tribe in its own frame... Three chapters concern that aspect of Navaho life which we call religious, basically its relation to the supernatural. Here both the details of material practice and the analysis of abstract thoughts are given, as well as discussions of the relationships of these concepts and customs to the individual, the group, and the outer world through economic and social aspects. -- F. H. Douglas * Folklore and Folklorists *
Although intended primarily as background reading for teachers and administrators in the Navajo Service, this book should have a special appeal for all Southwestern readers. Family life, social prejudices and ideal, religious preoccupations, as well as the daily struggle for livelihood, are described in terms which indicate why many of these cultural features unwittingly and inevitably prove stumbling blocks to an administrative service which seeks only to improve their health and economy... In short, this is a book of interpretation; the authors serve as translators of culture between the Navajo and the Indian Service, and any intelligent reader should achieve a new and sympathetic attitude toward both well-meaning and baffled factions. -- A. H. Gayton * New Mexico Historical Review *

About Clyde Kluckhohn

Clyde Kluckhohn (1905-1960) was Professor of Anthropology at Harvard University and Curator of Southwestern American Ethnology at Harvard's Peabody Museum. He was in almost continuous contact with the Navaho Indians beginning in 1923. In 1942 he became an expert consultant to the United States Office of Indian Affairs. Professor Kluckholn authored several books, among them Beyond the Rainbow and Navaho Witchcraft. Dorothea C. Leighton, M.D., a psychiatrist, received with Dr. Alexander H. Leighton the Joint Postdoctoral Research Training Fellowship of the Social Science Research Council in 1939-40. A Guggenheim Fellowship was also awarded jointly to her and Dr. Leighton. She passed away in 1989. Lucy Wales Kluckhohn (Lucy H. Wales / Lucy W. Kluckhohn Jones) is Associate Professor of Life Science at Santa Monica College. She has done fieldwork in the Southwest and was assistant to the late Clyde Kluckhohn. She also edited the revised edition of Indians of the United States by Clark Wissler.

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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GOR003852380
9780674606036
0674606035
The Navaho: Revised Edition by Clyde Kluckhohn
Clyde Kluckhohn
Used - Well Read
Paperback
Harvard University Press
19920101
374
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