essay

Modern Navajo witchcraft stories

Navajo religion and culture : selected views (17)Published In 1982 • Pages: 84-88

By: Toulouse, Carmie Lynn.

AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This short article presents the reports of nine incidents of witchcraft and related activities in the Shiprock, New Mexico, area during the 1970's. The author does not analyze the data but she seems to imply that witchcraft is by no means dying out and may be expected to continue for some time to come.
SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
Sorcery
Sociocultural trends
Magic
Ethnopsychology
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.
Ethnographer
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
Marlene Martin ; 1986
Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
none
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)
Navajo Reservation, Shiprock area, New Mexico, United States
NotesAdditional notes
Carmie Lynn Toulouse
Includes bibliographical references (p. 88)
LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
81086446
LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
Navajo Indians