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A note on regional variation in Navajo kinship terminology
American anthropologist • 72 • Published In 1970 • Pages: 1439-1444
By: Freed, Stanley A., Freed, Ruth S..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
On the evidence of genealogies collected from ninety-four informants, the authors conclude regional variations in kinship terminology and its usage indicate that the terminology is changing. While not being able to explain the reasons for this change conclusively, nevertheless the trend is similar to that occurring among the nearby Hopi.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Cultural participation
- Kinship terminology
- 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
- article
- 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.
- 4: Excellent Secondary 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
- no date
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Pine Springs, Pinon and Low Mountain on the Navajo Indian Reservation, Arizona, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- By Stanley A. Freed and Ruth S. Freed
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 1444)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 17015424
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Navajo Indians