book chapter
Navaho treatment of sickness: diagnosticians
American anthropologist, n.s. • 33 • Published In 1931 • Pages: 390-402
By: Morgan, William.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a detailed account of Navajo diagnosis and treatment of disease by diagnosticians. It covers hand-tremblers, stargazers, and listeners: their theories of diseases, their methods of prediction, their rituals, sacred objects and therapeutic efforts at curing. The author also touches on other functions of diagnosticians: advice about unusual incidents, provisions for warding off dangers, help in the recovery of lost possessions, and oneiromancy. In discussing the latter, he stresses the importance of dreams as factors in everyday life of the Navajos. The author is an anthropologist who gathered the material personally on the Reservation. Capital letters in the text denote Navajo informants. Small letters denote Euro-American informants. Since Morgan is primarily interested in a study of individuals, he has inserted informants in order to prevent his statements from sounding like tribal generalizations.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Theoretical orientation in research and its results
- Price and value
- Representative art
- Theory of disease
- Shamans and psychotherapists
- Medical therapy
- Medical care
- Spirits and gods
- Prayers and sacrifices
- Revelation and divination
- Ethnometeorology
- Ethnozoology
- Ethnopsychology
- 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.
- Ethnologist
- 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.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Katchen S. Coley ; 1951
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- not specified
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Navajo Reservation, Arizona, New Mexico, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- William Morgan
- This document consists of excerpts
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 1715424
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Navajo Indians