book chapter
How the Navajo adopt rites
El Palacio • 46 • Published In 1939 • Pages: 25-27
By: Newcomb, Franc Johnson.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a discussion of how Navajo medicine men acquire some sacred objects and rites from one another and from other Indian groups. It contains some very good case material. The author was a recognized authority on the Navajo.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Shamans and psychotherapists
- Sacred objects and places
- 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.
- 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
- 1938
- 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
- Franc Johnson Newcomb
- This document consists of excerpts
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 59038557
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Navajo Indians