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To run after themBook 1977 • Lamphere, Louise
Navajo • North America > Southwest and Basin
This is a study of kinship and cooperation in a modern Navajo community. The book covers native concepts of cooperation and autonomy, reviews the literature and data on domestic organization with an emphasis on methodological difficulties, and then f...Symbolic elements in Navajo ritualarticle 1969 • Lamphere, Louise
Navajo • North America > Southwest and Basin
The author of this source analyzes Navajo chants 'as a system of symbols which communicate the Navajo model of the natural-supernatural world' (p. 279). The conclusion of her symbolic analysis is that 'rather than body processes being relevant to cla...