book chapter
Some sex beliefs and practices in a Navaho community: with comparative material from other Navaho areas
The Museum • 40 (2) • Published In 1950 • Pages: xii, 108
By: Bailey, Flora L..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This monograph is the second of the reports of the Ramah project. The central theme in all Ramah investigations is the necessity for intensive analysis of variation. Dr. Bailey's work on aspects of the reproductive cycle admirably fulfills this objective. All his fieldwork was done in New Mexico, three-quarters in the Ramah area. However, he also refers to Dr. Hill's fieldwork, which was carried out mostly in Arizona. Bailey spent three-quarters of his fieldwork in the Ramah area, where he spent the first thre summers (1938-1940). In addition to Ramah, he interviewed people in the Chaco Canyon and Pinedale asreas of New Mexico. Informants from Ramah are indicated by numbers, Pinedale in upper-case initials, and Chaco Canyon in lower-case initials. Dr. Hill's informants are from Lukachukai, Keams Canyon, and White Cone in Arizona; and Buck's Store in New Mexico.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Magical and mental therapy
- Cult of the dead
- Ethnometeorology
- Ethnozoology
- Conception
- Pregnancy
- Childbirth
- Difficult and unusual births
- Illegitimacy
- Infant feeding
- Infant care
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Navajo
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2004
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Southwest and Basin
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- book chapter
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Educator
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 3: Good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Katherine Schlesinger ; 1951
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1938-1942
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1938-1942
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- New Mexico, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Flora L. Bailey
- This document consists of excerpts
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 107-108)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- a 52008354
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Navajo Indians