book chapter
Navajo social organization in land use planning
Applied anthropology • 1 (4) • Published In 1942 • Pages: 18-25
By: Kimball, Solon Toothaker, Provinse, John A..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article is a brief review of the major forms of Navajo social organization and a proposal that the government's efforts at reconstituting local leadership be realistically related to these forms. The authors suggest as a practical measure that such groupings as livestock or farm associations be coincidental with what they term the 'greater community.' The latter is defined as an area in which groups of extended families have traditionally worked together under a hierarchy of leadership and responsibility. The authors were applied anthropologists. Kimball participated in social and economic surveys on the Navajo Reservation from 1936-1942, while Provinse had served as a soil conservation expert with the Department of Agriculture and was a social science analyst with the same department at the time of this article. Provinse was also an assistant commissioner of the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Location
- History
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Pastoral activities
- Land use
- Division of labor by gender
- Mutual aid
- Residence
- Household
- Nuclear family
- Extended families
- Parents-in-law and children-in-law
- Community structure
- Community heads
- Public welfare
- Magical and mental therapy
- 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 TypesThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Social Anthropologist
- Government Official
- 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 ; 1951-1952
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1936-1942
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1868-1940s
- 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, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Solon Toothaker Kimball and John A. Provinse
- This document consists of excerpts
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 86655749
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Navajo Indians