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A taxonomic view of the traditional Navajo universe
Handbook of North American Indians. Southwest • 10 • Published In 1983 • Pages: 579-591
By: Werner, Oswald, Manning, Allen, Begishe, Kenneth Y..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article focuses on Navajo cultural knowledge as reflected in language and expressed by taxonomy. Data are from well-structured interviews with twenty-eight informants. After a lengthy methodological section on how the taxonomies were elicited and what taxonomy is, the authors move to native taxonomies of plants, animals, ceremony, and meteorology. Also covered are native terms for anatomy, physiology, and societal denominations. Mythology is touched on only briefly. The relationship of these taxonomies to semantics or other cultural aspects is not addressed.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Theoretical orientation in research and its results
- Interviewing in research
- Organization and analysis of results of research
- Grammar
- Semantics
- Cosmology
- Mythology
- Organized ceremonial
- Ethnogeography
- Ethnobotany
- Ethnozoology
- Ethnoanatomy
- Ethnophysiology
- 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
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypesThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Indigenous Person
- 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 ; Marlene Martin ; 1985
- 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
- Oswald Werner, Allen Manning and Kenneth Y. Begishe
- For bibliographical references see 197: Brugge (p. 780-839)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 77017162
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Navajo Indians