Book
Navajo kinship and marriage
University of Chicago Press • Chicago • Published In 1975 • Pages:
By: Witherspoon, Gary.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This source, based on the author's fieldwork and experience on the Navajo reservation, is a survey of social organization in the Rough Rock-Black Mountain area. The work is theoretically oriented towards demonstrating how actual patterns 'of' behavior differ from the ideal patterns 'for' behavior (p. x). Part I, for example, discusses the ideas and conceptual framework which guide and order Navajo behavior, but which are distinct from it. In Part II, Witherspoon presents actual patterns of social organization and behavior and attempts to illustrate how these patterns become more understandable when the underlying rules, ideas, and conceptual framework are understood. The concluding section deals with the 'Social Universe of the Navajo,' an attempt to explain and interpret kinship and social organization from the Navajo's standpoint. The researcher will find much information here on kinship and kin groups, family relationships, marriage, residence patterns and subsistence. Throughout the source the important role of the subsistence residential unit (a form of the extended family) in various economic and kin related activities is stressed.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Family relationships
- Basis of marriage
- Clans
- Kinship terminology
- Extended families
- Residence
- Termination of marriage
- Ethnosociology
- Kin relationships
- Regulation of marriage
- 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
- John Beierle ; 1985
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- ca. 1962-1970
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- ca. 1920s-1968
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- southwestern United States ( general Navajo area); and Rough Rock-Black Mountain region, Arizona, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Gary Witherspoon
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 131-134) and index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 74021340
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Navajo Indians