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The Navaho doorbook chapter 1944 • Leighton, Alexander H. (Alexander Hamilton) & Leighton, Dorothea (Cross)
Navajo • North America > Southwest and Basin
This book is designed primarily as an introduction to the 'Navajo way' and as such should be useful to persons about to work on the reservation. However, its excellence lies chiefly in its discussion of Navajo attitudes towards disease, and its speci...Some types of uneasiness and fear in a Navaho Indian communitybook chapter 1942 • Leighton, Alexander H. (Alexander Hamilton) & Leighton, Dorothea (Cross)
Navajo • North America > Southwest and Basin
This document contains an interesting account of sources of fear, etc., in a Navajo community that is presented in tables. There is also a discussion of methodology....Elements of psychotherapy in Navaho religionbook chapter 1941 • Leighton, Alexander H. (Alexander Hamilton) & Leighton, Dorothea (Cross)
Navajo • North America > Southwest and Basin
The authors, both psychiatrists and students of the Navajo, analyzed a typical Navajo healing ceremony and point out its many psychotherapeutic elements. They urged that Euro-American medical personnel study and make use of the Navajo point of view t...Gregorio, the hand-tremblerBook 1949 • Leighton, Alexander H. (Alexander Hamilton) & Leighton, Dorothea (Cross)
Navajo • North America > Southwest and Basin
This is the first of the Peabody Museum reports on the Ramah project. The project is a systematic study of the Navajo living in the off-reservation area of Ramah, which began officially in 1936. It is based on the belief that following a small commun...