book chapter

A comparison of Navaho and White Mountain Apache ceremonial forms and categories

Southwestern journal of anthropology • 1 • Published In 1945 • Pages: 498-506

By: Goodwin, Grenville.

Abstract
This paper was originally presented orally at a conference in 1939 by the author, an ethnological student of the Apache. After his death, the Navajo specialists, Clyde Kluckhohn and Leland C. Wyman, revised it for publication. The aim of the paper is to show the similarities between some Navajo and Apache ceremonial forms. Declaring that many of the usual conceptions of differences between the two are due to the complicated terminology ethnologists have developed in discussing Navajo ceremonies, Goodwin reduces the categories of ritual to basic groupings, and then lists many points at which the Navajo and Apache merge.
Subjects
Theoretical orientation in research and its results
Comparative evidence
Representative art
Magical and mental therapy
Ritual
Organized ceremonial
culture
Navajo
HRAF PubDate
2004
Region
North America
Sub Region
Southwest and Basin
Document Type
book chapter
Evaluation
Creator Type
Ethnologist
Document Rating
3: Good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent
Analyst
Katchen S. Coley ; 1951
Field Date
ca. 1939
Coverage Date
not specified
Coverage Place
southwestern United States
Notes
Grenville Goodwin
This document consists of excerpts
Includes bibliographical references
LCCN
47005758
LCSH
Navajo Indians