Book
Navajo ways in government: a study in political process
American Anthropological Association • [menasha, Wis.] • Published In 1963 • Pages: xi, 132
By: Shepardson, Mary.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This source is a study of the process of '… the institutionalization of a modern political system in a society that traditionally lacked centralized authority and concrete units of government' (p. 3), i.e., it is the study of the Navajo Tribal Council. The subjects considered are: Navajo history, the systems of the federal goverment and the local states, the authority system of the Navajo Tribal Council, the interaction of the states and their role relations, the historical development of self-government, the institutionalization of the Tribal Council, local participation in the modern political system, the elections of 1955 and 1959, and the future of the Tribal Council.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Historical reconstruction
- History
- Public welfare
- Pastoral activities
- Chief executive
- External relations
- Clans
- Labor supply and employment
- Sociocultural trends
- Districts
- Administrative agencies
- 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
- 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
- Marlene Martin ; 1985
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1954-1959
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1864-1959
- 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
- Mary Shepardson
- Revision of thesis, University of California, Berkeley
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 122-127)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 64000741
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Navajo Indians