book chapter
Soul concepts of the Navaho
Annali lateranensi; pubblicazione del Pontificio museo missionario etnologico • 7 • Published In 1943 • Pages: 59-94
By: Haile, Berard.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is an enlightening article by a missionary who has devoted the majority of his near eighty years to the study of the Navajo. Father Berard goes a long way toward clarifying the complex problem of the Navajo concept of anthropomorphism, the soul within the gods (the 'inner god'), the relation of the soul with the human body, kinds of souls that survive after death, and death itself. This is required reading for anyone interested in Navajo religious and moral beliefs as well as their attitude toward nature. Information on Father Berard's principal informant, called d.n. in this article, may be found in category 115. A 'Key' to the Navajo alphabet, pages 62-64, has been omitted.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Religious beliefs
- Ideas about nature and people
- Pregnancy
- 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
- not specified
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- southwestern United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Berard Haile
- This document consists of excerpts
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- ac 40002295
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Navajo Indians