book chapter
Navajo house types
El Palacio • 47 • Published In 1940 • Pages: 97-107
By: Corbett, John M..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a brief, but detailed account of the chief Navajo house types found by the author in the Chaco Canyon area. All the dwellings described are summer and winter hogans; no sweat or ceremonial hogans were discovered. The author's chief aim is to show how acculturation has affected the architecture, and construction methods since the descriptions recorded by Cosmos Mindeleff in 1898. However, he also reviews the observations of the earliest Spaniards as well as pre-Spaniard archaeological data.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Prehistory
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Dwellings
- Outbuildings
- Religious and educational structures
- 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.
- 4: Excellent Secondary 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
- 1937
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1937
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Chaco Canyon area, New Mexico, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- John M. Corbett
- This document consists of excerpts
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 107)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 59038557
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Navajo Indians