The psychosocial analysis of a Hopi life-history
Book 1951 • Aberle, David Friend

Hopi • North America > Southwest and Basin
This source is an attempt “to analyze a single life-history for the light it sheds on the society in which the subject lives” (p. 1). It should be read in conjunction with or after Talayesva (Document 7), since it is an analysis of that material. Unf...

Navaho
essay 1974 • Aberle, David Friend

Navajo • North America > Southwest and Basin
This source reviews all known data on Navajo kinship and matrilineality, based primarily upon the work of other previous ethnographers. The author discusses in detail the working of Navajo social organization, including clan (and LEC, or 'local clan ...

Peyote religion among the Navajo
essay 1983 • Aberle, David Friend

Navajo • North America > Southwest and Basin
This article focuses on the growth of the Native American Church among the Navajo. Three fundamental issues are addressed: the spread of Peyotism from other tribes through the Navajo population, possible reasons for its success, and its role as a sou...

Navajo economic development
essay 1983 • Aberle, David Friend

Navajo • North America > Southwest and Basin
This chapter covers a broad range of topics on Navajo economic development and planning. Beginning with an historical overview, the author (an ethnologist) then moves to more detailed discussions of current problems, including energy resource develop...

Navajo coresidential kin groups and lineages
article 1981 • Aberle, David Friend

Navajo • North America > Southwest and Basin
In this article, Aberle attempts to make more comprehensible the 'amorphous character of Navajo kinship organization' (p. 1). In particular he describes the 'coresidential kin group' or CKG. The CKG is made up of a portion of a matrilineage and its f...