book chapter
The Navajo listening rite
El Palacio • 45 • Published In 1938 • Pages: 46-49
By: Newcomb, Franc Johnson.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a short, detailed account of the Navajo listening rite used to discover lost objects, animals, or people, hear news of distant relatives, or discover if a person is being bewitched. The author, a recognized authority on the Navajo, includes data not mentioned by either Morgan of Wyman in their studies.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Representative art
- Shamans and psychotherapists
- Sacred objects and places
- Revelation and divination
- Ritual
- 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.
- Businessperson
- 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
- no date
- 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)
- Navajo Reservation, Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- By Franc J. Newcomb
- This document consists of excerpts
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 59038557
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Navajo Indians