Book
To run after them: cultural and social bases of cooperation in a Navajo community
University of Arizona Press • Tucson • Published In 1977 • Pages:
By: Lamphere, Louise.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a study of kinship and cooperation in a modern Navajo community. The book covers native concepts of cooperation and autonomy, reviews the literature and data on domestic organization with an emphasis on methodological difficulties, and then focuses on patterns in cooperative activities. Activities highlighted are sheep herding, agriculture, transportation, and ceremonial participation. Data are supplemented with case studies. The researcher also advances a model of reciprocity based on maintaining systematic ambiguity and flexible cooperative units. Conclusions attempt to resolve the apparent ambiguity of cooperative and autonomy values in Navajo society. Excellent ethnographic data can be found for all subjects covered and the review of domestic group literature is particularly helpful. Poor organization sometimes obscures the relationship between variables.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Culture summary
- Extended families
- Lineages
- Pastoral activities
- Nuclear family
- 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
- Richard A. Wagner ; John Beierle ; 1985
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1965-1966
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1963-1966
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Two Gray Hills area, New Mexico, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Louise Lamphere
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-218) and index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 75008455
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Navajo Indians