Linguistic Identification

Organization and Analysis of Results

Real Property

Glossary

Organized Ceremonial

Annual Cycle

Settlement Patterns

Extended Families

Wartime Adjustments

Identification

Location

Status, Role, and Prestige

Gender Status

Household

Community Structure

Material Not Relevant

Inheritance

Clans

Bibliographies in Sources

Social Control

Sorcery

Woven and Other Interworked Fabrics

Retail Marketing

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Visual Arts

Historical Reconstruction

History

Acculturation and Culture Contact

Domesticated Animals

External Trade

External Relations

Instigation of War

Aftermath of Combat

Production and Supply

Income and Demand

Labor Supply and Employment

Techniques of Socialization

Transmission of Skills

Transmission of Beliefs

Life and Death

Burial Practices and Funerals

Eschatology

Comparative Evidence

Mats and Basketry

Ornament

Ceramic Technology

Smiths and Their Crafts

Division of Labor by Gender

Climate

Topography and Geology

Flora

Credit

Theory of Disease

Magical and Mental Therapy

Medical Therapy

Medical Personnel

Kinship Terminology

Community Heads

Form and Rules of Government

Shamans and Psychotherapists

Property System

Cosmology

Spirits and Gods

Ethnometeorology

Nuclear Family

Tillage

Diet

Ingroup Antagonisms

Informal in-Group Justice

Judicial Authority

Priesthood

Sociocultural Trends

Basis of Marriage

Termination of Marriage

Residence

Polygamy

Population

CULTURE SUMMARY: Navajo

ETHNONYMS

ORIENTATION

HISTORY AND CULTURAL RELATIONS

SETTLEMENTS

ECONOMY

KINSHIP

MARRIAGE AND FAMILY

SOCIOPOLITICAL ORGANIZATION

RELIGION AND EXPRESSIVE CULTURE

BELIEFS

RELIGIOUS PRACTITIONERS

CEREMONIES

ARTS

MEDICINE

DEATH AND AFTERLIFE

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INDEXING NOTES

IDENTIFICATION AND LOCATION

DEMOGRAPHY

LINGUISTIC AFFILIATION

SUBSISTENCE AND COMMERCIAL ACTIVITIES

INDUSTRIAL ARTS

TRADE

DIVISION OF LABOR

LAND TENURE

KIN GROUPS

KIN TERMS

MARRIAGE

DOMESTIC UNIT

INHERITANCE

SOCIALIZATION

SOCIAL ORGANIZATION

POLITICAL ORGANIZATION

SOCIAL CONTROL

CONFLICT

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The Navajo are the second largest Native North American group. They currently live mostly in northwestern New Mexico, northeastern Arizona, and southeastern Utah. The Navajo language belongs to the Apachean branch of the Athapaskan family. Ancestors of the Navajo are thought to have migrated to the Southwest within the last one thousand years. Modern Navajo culture exhibits a unique blend of Athapaskan, Puebloan, Mexican, and Anglo-American influences. Every Navajo belongs to one of sixty-four matrilineal clans. Navajo mythology is epitomized in the curing ceremony called the Blessing Way.

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