book chapter
The Female Shooting Life Chant: a minor Navaho ceremony
American anthropologist, n.s. • 38 • Published In 1936 • Pages: 634-653
By: Wyman, Leland Clifton.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a detailed account of a Female Shooting Life Chant which was sung over the author in August, 1935, near Pinedale, New Mexico. The ritualistic acts are interpreted as being symbolic, commemorative of occurrences in myths of the past, and 'therapeutic.' At the time the ceremonial was held, Wyman was associate professor at Boston University's School of Medicine and was making an intensive study of Navajo medicine and ceremonial practice.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Music
- Mythology
- Sacred objects and places
- Purification and atonement
- Ideas about nature and people
- 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.
- Natural Scientist
- 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
- 1935
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1935
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Pinedale, New Mexico, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Leland C. Wyman
- This document consists of excerpts
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 1715424
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Navajo Indians