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The automobile in contemporary Navaho culture
Men and cultures ; selected papers, edited under the chairmanship of Anthony F. C. Wallace • Philadelphia • Published In 1960 • Pages: 359-363
By: Vogt, Evon Z. (Evon Zartman).
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This source is a straightforward, sometimes humorous account of Navajo adaptations to the automobile and adaptations of it according to their own culturally and socially determined designs. The author concludes that the introduction of the automobile has led both to significant changes in Navajo culture and to social disruption of non-mechanized patterns of mobility and sociability.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Vehicles
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Credit
- Travel
- 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 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
- M. A. Marcus ; 1985
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- ca. 1951
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1746-1951
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Arizona and New Mexico, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Evon Zartman Vogt
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 363)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 60002288
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Navajo Indians