Book
Navaho veterans: a study of changing values
The Museum • 41 (1) • Published In 1951 • Pages: xix, 223
By: Vogt, Evon Z. (Evon Zartman).
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This study, which is a dissertation revision, focuses on the problems of value conflict and acculturation as evidenced in the experiences of Navajo World War II veterans from Rimrock, New Mexico. It is the first monograph in the Rimrock Project, Values Series published by the Peabody Museum. The author uses life histories and projective personality tests on fifteen Navajos, twelve of whom are veterans, to explore culture and personality in an acculturative setting. He concludes that acculturation can be divided into 'imitative' and 'internalized' stages and that personal conflict, insecurity, and prior social deviance are positively correlated with value change. Service experience was concluded to be an important influence regardless as to the extent of previous contacts with Euro-Americans. Aside from the life histories and personality data on the veterans, there are substantive sections on inter-cultural relations in the area, determinants of changing values, and change with respect to particular cultural elements (e.g., housing and personal hygiene). Cumulatively, the life histories provide scattered but significant data on Navajo perceptions of education, witchcraft, ghosts, and employment opportunities. Finally, as the first report in the series, the report contains a list of project personnel and publications.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Life history materials
- Personality traits
- War veterans
- Acculturation and culture contact
- 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 ; 1985
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1947-1948
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1870s-1952
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Rimrock area, New Mexico (i.e., Ramah, New Mexico), United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Evon Zartman Vogt
- Life histories textually referenced by letter code can best be located by consulting OCM category 159.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-223)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- a 52008769
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Navajo Indians