book chapter
Notes and illustrations of Navaho sex behavior
Psychoanalysis and culture • New York • Published In 1951 • Pages:
By: Dyk, Walter.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
The material presented here by a well-known ethnologist in the Navajo field deals primarily with the form of sex behavior so popular among the Navajo, 'prowling.' Five anecdotes illustrating both male and female prowling are provided along with incidental information on modesty in dress. Dyk maintains the custom of prowling has developed as a means of satisfying sexual curiosity which has been frustrated by the cultural requirements for modesty in dress. He believed that changing cultural patterns brought about by contact with the Euro-Americans' emphasis on exposure of the body would gradually lead to the disappearance of the custom. This source is of particular value as it is one of the very few which discuss Navajo sexual behavior.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Exchange transactions
- Humor
- Gender status
- Sexual stimulation
- Sexual intercourse
- General sex restrictions
- Kinship regulation of sex
- Homosexuality
- 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 ; 1951-1953
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1933-1935, 1947-1948
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1933-1948
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Navajo reservation, southwestern United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Walter Dyk
- This document consists of excerpts
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 51013478
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Navajo Indians