book chapter

Two Navaho children over a five-year period

American journal of orthopsychiatry • 19 • Published In 1949 • Pages: 266-278

By: Kluckhohn, Clyde, Rosenzweig, Janine Chapat.

Abstract

In this paper, the authors present materials that bear upon methodological issues in the study of primitive children. Taking two Navajo children of the Ramah area for whom case histories up to 1942 were given in 'Children of the People' (see 2: Leighton, category 155 or 159), Dr. Kluckhohn and Mrs. Rosenzweig here deal with the period from 1942-1947. After giving personality profiles based both on observation and personality tests, they discuss problems arising out of those tests. A Rorschach, modified Thematic Apperception Test, Stewart Emotional Response Test, and Bavelas Moral Ideology were given to the two subjects in 1942. After ten months, these were repeated by different field workers and the results compared. In 1946, the subjects were put through a battery of projective experiments devised by Rosenzweig to bring out group attitudes and determine their place in the total personality configuration of the individual. About a year later, Rorschachs were once again administered to the children. Although much of the work by the different testers was done independently, the picture obtained of these two personalities is remarkably consistent. Clyde Kluckhohn is an ethnologist who has worked with the Ramah Navajo for many years, and Janine Chappat Rosenzweig is a psychologist who has also been associated with the Ramah Project. For a brief description of the Ramah Project, see the abstract for 5: Leighton.

HRAF PubDate

2004

Region

North America

Sub Region

Southwest and Basin

Document Type

book chapter

Evaluation

Creator Types

Ethnologist

Psychologist

Document Rating

5: Excellent Primary Data

Analyst

Katchen S. Coley ; 1951-1952

Field Date

1936-1947

Coverage Date

1942-1947

Coverage Place

southwestern United States

Notes

Clyde Kluckhohn and Janine Chapat Rosenzweig

This document consists of excerpts

Includes bibliographical references

LCCN

4039751

LCSH

Navajo Indians