Book
The Navajo Mountain community: social organization and kinship terminology
University of California Press • Berkeley • Published In 1970 • Pages:
By: Shepardson, Mary, Hammond, Blodwen.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This study examines Navajo cultural flexibility and persistence as expressed by kinship terminology and social organization. Focus is on the community of Navajo Mountain, Utah, with supplementary data from Inscription House and Oljeto, Arizona. Fieldwork was sporadic, encompassing 8+ months over a period of seven years. Using Malcolm Carr Collier's 1938 research as a baseline to measure change, the researchers have divided their study into three major sections. Part One describes the community, its setting and history, and changes over the past 25 years. Part Two addresses social structure, focusing on group membership, residence, cooperation, social control, and life cycle. Particular attention is given to witchcraft, marriage, and dyadic relationships. Part Three analyzes kinship terminology and role with respect to actual behavior. Appearing throughout the volume are important data on 'clan' composition and interaction.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Sociocultural trends
- Clans
- Family relationships
- Kin relationships
- Sorcery
- Regulation of marriage
- Arranging a marriage
- Special unions and marriages
- Kinship terminology
- Social control
- Informal in-group justice
- Chief executive
- Extended families
- 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
- 1960-1966
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1868-1966
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Navajo Reservation, Navajo Mountain, Utah; Inscription House and Oljeto, Arizona; United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- [by] Mary Shepardson and Blodwen Hammond
- Clans are indexed for OCM category 614 and data on prostitution other than as an offense are indexed for OCM category 548
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-269)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 70097233
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Navajo Indians