book chapter

A comparison of Navaho and White Mountain Apache ceremonial forms and categories

Southwestern journal of anthropology1Published In 1945 • Pages: 498-506

By: Goodwin, Grenville.

AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This paper was originally presented orally at a conference in 1939 by the author, an ethnological student of the Apache. After his death, the Navajo specialists, Clyde Kluckhohn and Leland C. Wyman, revised it for publication. The aim of the paper is to show the similarities between some Navajo and Apache ceremonial forms. Declaring that many of the usual conceptions of differences between the two are due to the complicated terminology ethnologists have developed in discussing Navajo ceremonies, Goodwin reduces the categories of ritual to basic groupings, and then lists many points at which the Navajo and Apache merge.
SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
Theoretical orientation in research and its results
Comparative evidence
Representative art
Magical and mental therapy
Ritual
Organized ceremonial
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
ca. 1939
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)
southwestern United States
NotesAdditional notes
Grenville Goodwin
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Includes bibliographical references
LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
47005758
LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
Navajo Indians