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Navajo kinship and marriageBook 1975 • Witherspoon, Gary
Navajo • North America > Southwest and Basin
This source, based on the author's fieldwork and experience on the Navajo reservation, is a survey of social organization in the Rough Rock-Black Mountain area. The work is theoretically oriented towards demonstrating how actual patterns 'of' behavio...Navajo social organizationessay 1983 • Witherspoon, Gary
Navajo • North America > Southwest and Basin
This article focuses on concepts of Navajo social solidarity as expressed by the residence group and the economic organization of sheep herding. Also addressed are residence rules, marriage, and political organization. The illustrations of hogans and...Language and reality in Navajo world viewessay 1983 • Witherspoon, Gary
Navajo • North America > Southwest and Basin
This source surveys several fundamental Navajo ideas concerning speech, language, and reality through an investigation of some key concepts and their contextual meanings. By this means, the structure of the Navajo world-view and its relationship to n...Language and art in the Navajo universeBook 1977 • Witherspoon, Gary
Navajo • North America > Southwest and Basin
This is a complex and theoretical study on the roles of language and art in Navajo culture, resulting from nearly a decade of research on the Navajo reservation. The structures of Navajo thought, language, speech, and knowledge are used to frame disc...