book chapter
Navajo social organization in land use planning
Applied anthropology • 1 (4) • Published In 1942 • Pages: 18-25
By: Kimball, Solon Toothaker, Provinse, John A..
Abstract
This article is a brief review of the major forms of Navajo social organization and a proposal that the government's efforts at reconstituting local leadership be realistically related to these forms. The authors suggest as a practical measure that such groupings as livestock or farm associations be coincidental with what they term the 'greater community.' The latter is defined as an area in which groups of extended families have traditionally worked together under a hierarchy of leadership and responsibility. The authors were applied anthropologists. Kimball participated in social and economic surveys on the Navajo Reservation from 1936-1942, while Provinse had served as a soil conservation expert with the Department of Agriculture and was a social science analyst with the same department at the time of this article. Provinse was also an assistant commissioner of the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
- HRAF PubDate
- 2004
- Region
- North America
- Sub Region
- Southwest and Basin
- Document Type
- book chapter
- Evaluation
- Creator Types
- Social Anthropologist
- Government Official
- Document Rating
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- Katchen S. Coley ; 1951-1952
- Field Date
- 1936-1942
- Coverage Date
- 1868-1940s
- Coverage Place
- Navajo Reservation, Arizona, New Mexico, United States
- Notes
- Solon Toothaker Kimball and John A. Provinse
- This document consists of excerpts
- LCCN
- 86655749
- LCSH
- Navajo Indians