book chapter
Navajo eschatology
University of New Mexico Press • 4 (1) • Published In 1942 • Pages: 48
By: Wyman, Leland Clifton, Hill, W. W. (Willard Williams), ósanai, Iva.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a good account by three well-known ethnologists of Navajo concepts of the afterlife. Specifically it deals with the activities of 'ghosts' and the prevention of cure of sickness resulting from them, and the nature of the after-world. Throughout the account, similarities of belief with those of the Apaches are pointed out. However, the authors do not support the theory suggested in connection with the Apaches, that the Navajos' fear of the dead results from repressed resentment and dislike of relatives which actual competition in real life evokes. In their discussion of eschatology, the authors also take issue with the often-heard statement that the relationship between witches and ghosts is so close as to be classifiable together. Although they grant that behavioral patterns connected with the two occasionally merge, they believe that on the whole the pattern assemblages are distinct.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Comparative evidence
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Sorcery
- Magical and mental therapy
- Dying
- Special burial practices and funerals
- Cult of the dead
- General character of religion
- Cosmology
- Mythology
- Eschatology
- Sacred objects and places
- Revelation and divination
- Organized ceremonial
- Ethnophysics
- 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.
- 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
- Katchen S. Coley ; 1951
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1933-1941
- 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)
- Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- by Leland C. Wyman, W. W. Hill and Iva ósanai
- This document consists of excerpts
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 47-48)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 42036444
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Navajo Indians