Book
Modern transformations of Moenkopi Pueblo
University of Illinois Press • (6) • Published In 1970 • Pages: xvii, 336
By: Nagata, Shuichi.
Abstract
This source is a detailed study of the transformation of Moenkopi Pueblo since 1870s from a summer farming colony of Oraibi to an independent community undergoing modernization and integration into the larger non-Hopi world. Based on fieldwork in Moenkopi and extensive use of documentary materials, the author defines the characteristics that have distinguished Moenkopi from other Hopi villages throughout its history and discusses the natural environment of the Moenkopi area and the federal and local dimensions of reservation life at Moenkopi. In the central part of this study the author describes and analyzes changes in political, economic, and kinship organization at Moenkopi, the interaction of the Hopi at Moenkopi with surrounding Navajo tribe, and economic and social integration of Moenkopi residents into the larger White society. A central theme throughout this study concerns factionalism within Moenkopi and the division of the community into Upper and Lower parts and the implications of this for local socio-economic change, acculturation, and integration into the larger society.
- HRAF PubDate
- 2000
- Region
- North America
- Sub Region
- Southwest and Basin
- Document Type
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- Gerald Reid ; 1988
- Field Date
- 1962-1965
- Coverage Date
- 1870s-1965
- Coverage Place
- Moenkopi Pueblo, northeastern Arizona, United States
- Notes
- Shuichi Nagata
- Information on factionalism in Moenkopi and the division of the community is filed mainly in Categories 578 and 621.
- This is a rewrite of the author's dissertation (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois, 1967
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 316-326)
- LCCN
- 70076829
- LCSH
- Hopi Indians