book chapter
Navaho women's knowledge of their song ceremonials
El Palacio • 45 • Published In 1938 • Pages: 87-92
By: Kluckhohn, Clyde.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
In an effort to discover the degree of participation of Navajo women in ceremonial knowledge and song ceremonies, the author questioned sixty women in the Ramah area. This article summarizes the conclusions he reached, which indicate that except in cases where the women were related to the singers, their knowledge and participation was considerably less than that of the average man. The author was director of the Ramah Project, from which ths article stems. (For details on the Project, see the abstract for 5: Leighton and Leighton)
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Informants
- Interviewing in research
- Norms
- Gender status
- Shamans and psychotherapists
- 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.
- 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
- 1936-1938
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- ca. 1938
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Ramah-Atarque region, New Mexico, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Clyde Kluckhohn
- This document consists of excerpts
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 59038557
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Navajo Indians