book chapter
Navaho games of chance and taboo
Primitive man : quarterly bulletin of the Catholic Anthropological Conference • 6 • Published In 1933 • Pages: 35-40
By: Haile, Berard.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article, tracing the history of various Navajo sports through myth and the recent past, supplements source 154: Reagan in this file. Father Berard discusses sports which have become obsolete and evaluates the role of religious taboos as possible causes for this obsolescence.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Leisure time activities
- Gambling
- Athletic sports
- 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.
- Missionary
- 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
- Kachen S. Coley ; 1952-1953
- 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
- 1916
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Red Rock, Arizona, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Berard Haile
- This document consists of excerpts
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 99111903
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Navajo Indians