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.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
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.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Tests and schedules administered in the field
- Organization and analysis of results of research
- Personality development
- Personality traits
- Life history materials
- 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 TypesThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Psychologist
- 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 ; 1951-1952
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1936-1947
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1942-1947
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- southwestern United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Clyde Kluckhohn and Janine Chapat Rosenzweig
- This document consists of excerpts
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 4039751
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Navajo Indians